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Car Of The Day: October 23, 2010; Yat Ming '90 Chevrolet Lumina
Topic Started: Oct 22 2010, 11:10 PM (377 Views)
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Today's car of the day is YatMing's 1990 Chevrolet Lumina (base labels this as a 1988 model).

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The Chevrolet Lumina sedan , coupe and minivan were first introduced in 1989 for the 1990 model year as a new range of vehicles from the Chevrolet brand of General Motors to replace both the Chevrolet Celebrity sedan, and the Monte Carlo coupe. The Lumina was an answer from General Motors to the Ford Taurus. All Luminas were built at the Oshawa Car Assembly plant, in Ontario, Canada. The Chevrolet Lumina had the longest length from any other W-body car at the time.

Consumers were ultimately confused by having two different vehicles (the Lumina sedan and the Lumina APV minivan) share the same name, and the concept was eventually dropped when the Lumina APV was replaced by the Chevrolet Venture in 1997.


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For more information and pictures of the real car please visit: Chevrolet Lumina

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Most Lumina models in small scale are of NASCAR stock cars. The two castings closest to stock are both by Yat Ming.

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The North American Chevrolet Lumina was based on the mid-size GM W platform, which was shared with the Pontiac Grand Prix, Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, Oldsmobile Intrigue, Buick Regal and Buick Century (after 1996). Although the Lumina became a popular seller, GM was widely criticized in the motoring press for being late to the game in introducing a direct aero-designed competitor to the Ford Taurus. The Chevrolet Lumina's first generation ended production in 1994, making this the shortest-lived generation of the first-generation GM W-body cars.

In 1989, the Lumina became the nameplate under which Chevrolets were raced in NASCAR, more than a year before the model was available to the public. Irate fans bombarded NASCAR with letters protesting the unfairness of Chevrolet being allowed to race an aluminum car.[citation needed]

In 1987 however, GM was experimenting with a high end performance version above the Z34 to continue where the Z34 left off. The experimental "Z50" version as it was dubbed featured all-wheel-drive and an all aluminum 5.0 L 305ci LT1-style V8 which had 285 hp (213 kW) and 280 ft·lbf (380 N·m) of torque. It never made it to production. The whereabouts of these test-cars remains unknown.


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Uh-oh. This is a MB Rolls.
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
And we're good now! ;)
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
Actually, no we're not. I owned a Lumina, it was a fine car, great for my long distance driving and I loved it, and this casting doesn't look much like any Lumina. It looks like the typical dollar store casting that really is not well defined. If it DID look much like a Lumina, I'd be excited to get one. Sorry, this one is most horrible. :(
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Oct 23 2010, 01:06 AM
Actually, no we're not. I owned a Lumina, it was a fine car, great for my long distance driving and I loved it, and this casting doesn't look much like any Lumina. It looks like the typical dollar store casting that really is not well defined. If it DID look much like a Lumina, I'd be excited to get one. Sorry, this one is most horrible. :(
I was thinking the same thing except, what can I offer Sean to get that in the mail.....

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