Odpadni dragulj: 1992 Chevrolet Lumina Euro 3.4

Odpadni dragulj: 1992 Chevrolet Lumina Euro 3.4

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Would you believe that after all those pushrod V6 engines powering GM vehicles for all those decades, only one remains available here? That’s right, the LV1 4.3 used in Chevrolet Express/GMC Savana delovni kombiji, potomec dobrih starih Chevrolet V8, ki izhaja iz majhnega bloka V6, je zadnji potisni drog V6, ki stoji v vesolju GM (seveda ne štejemo zabojnih motorjev). V zgodnjih devetdesetih pa je The General šele začel v nove avtomobile vgrajevati motorje V1990 z nadzemnimi odmikači. Čisto prvi je bil 3.4-litrski LQ1, ki je šla pod pokrove vrhunskih Oldsmobile Cutlass Supremes, Pontiac Grand Prix in Chevrolet Luminas starting with the 1991 model year. Here’s one of those groundbreaking DOHC V6 cars, found in a self-service car graveyard in Phoenix, Arizona.

O Rad Era je bil leta 1992 še vedno v polnem razmahu, zato je tudi ta avto zajeti with red-and-white badges and striping. It would have fit right in at Santa’s Workshop.

Pontiac je bil na krovu tudi z radim videzom sladkarije.

GM resnično želel narediti svoje avtomobile bolj evropske, even using a “Eurosport” trim level name on Chevy Celebrity v povsem detroitskem stilu. Ta motor (in štirivaljnik Quad 4 DOHC) made the case that General Motors really could build screaming DOHC mills. Of course, the “Twin Dual Cam” 3.4 was a member of the aging Chevrolet 60° pushrod V6 family and used a shaft replacing the in-block camshaft to drive the timing belt; a bit of a kludge but it worked.

This one was rated at 210 horsepower. By the middle of the 1990s, GM’s Opel division was building the 54° DOHC V6 (which had its debut in Cadillac Catera in Saab 9000 na tej strani Atlantika).

Kupci kupe različice tega avtomobila, Lumina Z34, bi lahko dobili robusten petstopenjski ročni menjalnik Getrag, če bi se tako odločili. Lumina Euro 3.4 je kot obvezno opremo dobila štiristopenjsko avtomatiko.

The MSRP with the Euro 3.4 option package came to $17,685. That’s about $39,400 in 2023 dollars. The ordinary ’92 Lumina Euro prišel s 3.1-litrskim V6 s potisno palico z močjo 140 konjskih moči.

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