He’s far enough away from the more erudite locations that would throw a total Karen about all this - yet at the same time, he’s also in line-sight of traffic, which makes me wonder how no one’s kvetched yet...

He means the S/T Envoy, not the GMT360 Envoy.

This was a rather subpar GM-sponsored SEMA build.

Not sure they’d find much use in sheets simply full of option codes from forty years ago as opposed to, say, tooling and engineering drawings - though I do have most of the latter upstairs as well...

You’re right on the money in your second graph. Hell, OEMs don’t even print or warehouse owners and service manuals any…

The closest I came to the PEP program was watching my parents buy a number of vehicles through this, so I really can’t answer much about specific details. All I recall was that the PEP program usually was just code for “you’re an 8th level and have a company car,” and then those company cars could be “tagged” by…

I *could* see this having been a “PEP” car, wherein it was pressed into company vehicle service for a certain amount of months before then being sold onward at a discount, and in that case, the invoicing might have looked like this.

PHS was doing those VIN requests far before that.

I think what typically happens is an OEM is only legally required to retain VIN manufacturing records to a certain point. After that, it can discard it or, in some cases, sell to interested parties. PHS does this for Pontiac; I think a Buick history group does the same…

they TOTALLY need to do a “My Rotting Jeep” spin-off with a DJ-5...

Pedantry alert - only the western vehicles are licensed; the Russian/ eastern European stuff is all basically identical to real-world prototypes, but slightly different/ given different names/ etc.

Exactly why I jumped ship from owning PS1-3s to an XB OneX two years back.

All this fancy tech all over the place - but the medical facility is STILL sending its Theranos-esque blood samples from department to department via pneumatic tubes?

Welcome to the weird world the Super Cub and its derivitives have lived in for years. My ‘82 has a shift lever and non-linked brakes as well, and yet as soon as people see the step-through design, fairing, centrificial clutch, and small displacement, they automatically go “oh, it’s a scooter.”

...yeah, but C8 has all the weight from an SEO perspective, so...voila; article!

dammit, Raph; this is only gonna make my quest to build a complete library of CAR STYLING even more difficult to accomplish...

Agreed. This was pretty easy...

You mean the 2.0 liter diesel that is no longer going into US-market Transit Connects?

The big issue is “will it cut it in cutaway applications?” The DMax was popular in those fields - especially transit/ paratransit fleets. And if they can still offer a detuned DMAX for Silverado 4500/5500/6500 there’s no reason they couldn’t continue to do so here.

Au contraire - quite a few G4500/5500 cutaways had Duramaxes underhood. Fairly popular with the bus and ambulance conversion market. The 2.8 won't cut it in those applications - and GM thankfully doesn't offer it there.

It still amazes me that they killed off the 6.6L Duramax Diesel V8 from this line of vans and replaced it with the 2.8L turbo-diesel four-cylinder from the Colorado.

Proportions are too Freelander for me, but it’s more distinctive than 90% of these baby CUVs already flooding the market, so...