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Is the family growing, looks like it. Reported to have a V6.
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Early reports on the kappa platform and Wilmington as the assembly plant estimated that GM could build upwards of about 130,000 kappa units at the plant. This was somewhat early information, and maybe it also takes into account running a second line, but it does indicate at least that GM felt they would have more available capacity.Mallard said:I don't think the plant has any additional capacity so I don't know why they would try to introduce another model on that platform.
Does the hydoforming limit what they could produce?Fformula88 said:Early reports on the kappa platform and Wilmington as the assembly plant estimated that GM could build upwards of about 130,000 kappa units at the plant. This was somewhat early information, and maybe it also takes into account running a second line, but it does indicate at least that GM felt they would have more available capacity.
As far as that Sting Ray goes, file it into the "Forgettaboutit" category.
they would have to add more hydroforming equipment for the frames, right now with what they have they said they were limited to about 30K a year because of the time it takes to do the Hydroforming.Fformula88 said:Early reports on the kappa platform and Wilmington as the assembly plant estimated that GM could build upwards of about 130,000 kappa units at the plant. This was somewhat early information, and maybe it also takes into account running a second line, but it does indicate at least that GM felt they would have more available capacity.
As far as that Sting Ray goes, file it into the "Forgettaboutit" category.
The hydroforming limits the number of body panels that can be produced. The process of hyrdroforming the body, as opposed to stamping the steel like a regular production car, is far more time consuming. However, it also allows the more complex shapes in the steel that may not be possible to reporduce using stamped steel (without incredible costs anyway). So it does limit production, probably more so with the Solstice's 20K units a year than the Sky's predicted 10K.nighttripper said:Does the hydoforming limit what they could produce?
I don't see it ever happening, Stingray or Sting Ray definately belongs to the Corvette family,Is the family growing, looks like it. Reported to have a V6.
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No, I think you might be misunderstanding. Ff88 is referring to large scale "sheet hydroforming". The investment for the dies is a fraction of traditional dies, but the tradeoff is cycle-time. In a world where hoods are stamped out in seconds, a process that takes 4 minutes to make a hood means production constraints.GM developed hydroforming for the C5 Corvettes. My 2001 Silverado HD2500 has a hydroformed frame. They make right at 40K Vettes a year and are pushing 200K trucks a year (when you add the SUVs -Suburbans, Tahoes, vans, etc. with hydroformed frames you are probably close to half a million) . The only limit to the number of Kappas they make is GM's desire to keep it a niche and demand vehicle. If they made enough that everyone could get one, the demand, desire, and sales would drop. They want them on the road, not on the lot.