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Chevrolet: Z28, Z71, ZR2, ZL1... used as a garnish to the model name, these all sound pretty cool, no? But yeah, they are, in actuallity exactly as you say, product codes. RPOs (Regular Production Option) found on the vehicle build sheet, a singular ingredient of the "recipe" for that vehicle in production.
Remember GM and all the other automakers don't use the terms like ZR1 or Z28 they use platform names like W platform or Y platform, when it comes to designing and building their cars or trucks. And yes when the car comes down the line the build sheet is hanging on the car so the line worker knows what part to put on.
The best was when Chevy sent cars to Latin America where Nova translates to "No Go".
I have heard this sooo many times that finally I said I have to check it out. I bet you haven’t, have you?According to Google, nova in Spanish means....wait for it...nova.
Why do you think GM closed olds and Pontiac and ford closed mercury the cars were the same as the other brands just different trim. But for some reason gmc and Chevy pickups still are hot sellers even though they are the same truck built on the same assembly line just different trim. Same as the caddilac escalade abd the gmc Yukon same truck different trim. People thinking the escalade is luxury when in reality it's just a Yukon. Same with fords expiration and Lincoln navigator same truck built on the same line just different trim.
All very good points but this is not the subject of this thread.
I always thought that 'escalade' was a made up word, kind of a cross between 'escalator' and 'marmalade' but it turns out that it's a real word referring to the setting of ladders & such to climb walls in a siege, so I actually like that, and find it creative. Escalade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I had an older relative who had a Pontiac Grand Prix and always Americanized the pronunciation to 'grand pricks.' Another relative had a '56 Chevy and the car was so great, so iconic, that it never needed a model name. As far as I know it never had one. It was always just '56 Chevy.
It has always been this way. Car manufacturers are now just using build-codes in the name. Used to, people asked "Well, is it a "XYZ" Camaro?" Now they just ask "Is it the 1LE?" See, used to, the 1LE was a number in the glove box on the build sheet. Everyone cared so much that GM took the guesswork out, and now a stripper with the good suspension gets the title right in the name! Makes it easy.
I have heard this sooo many times that finally I said I have to check it out. I bet you haven’t, have you?According to Google, nova in Spanish means....wait for it...nova.
I have heard this sooo many times that finally I said I have to check it out. I bet you haven’t, have you?According to Google, nova in Spanish means....wait for it...nova.
You need to ask a Spanish speaker - they will confirm - "no va" means "doesn't go", or "not going", "nova" just means "nova".
The reason the Nova didn't sell wasn't because of its name however. It was a crap car there, just like it was here!
Another relative had a '56 Chevy and the car was so great, so iconic, that it never needed a model name. As far as I know it never had one. It was always just '56 Chevy.
Back then, some of the trim levels had names, but the models were just numbers each year, like '150'. Kind of the same thing we are talking about with how cars are named now...
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