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[Kieron]

Originally Posted by lra

Definitely a case of yanks being shown how to do things, which never goes down well.
That's why they are the world champions in baseball, gridiron and professional wrestling. And action men like Tom Cruise, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris and Sly Stallone to save the world.

I'm not sure that's the case Ira. The Zeta platform was slated for use on a number of large GM models, most of which got cancelled due to model rationalisation as a result of the GFC. Part of the rationalisation meant platforms across different sizes have commonality and if memory serves, the Zeta platform only shared commonality with one GM/Cadillac platform which was deemed to big and/or heavy so out came the pencil and paper again to make a lighter, more compact and flexible platform.

Personally, I reckon GM were in a mess platform wise during the GFC era.

They also gave us Clint... ;-)