After a day of burning up phone lines, sending e-mails, reading other online reports, and launching flares up into the sky, we’ve got some more information for you with regard to Wednesday’s announcement about the disbanding of GMPD.
The good news is that things seem to suck far less than we were led to believe with the story we were working off of from Automotive News.
GM Performance Division has not, in fact, been completely disbanded. The engineers that were focused on performance-car development have been reassigned to other areas and projects in the company. The positive seems to be that when things are back on track, this unit will be reconvened.
Cars that have been developed and are slated for production will not be placed in danger. The Camaro SS for instance, is full steam ahead. We have heard that IF the Camaro SS continues to sell well it will continue on, but if it falls on its face after a model year or two, it faces a grim future.
Here’s where the crappy part starts. Cars that were in development, and by now we’re talking in terms of say, the 2012 model year are now dead in the water. Those projects have been halted.
Also, GM Performance Parts is not part of GMPD and is doing just fine.
So that’s what we’ve gleaned so far. As we are able to chip more news out of this story we will get it to you.
