ROAD TEST/REVIEWS: MONTE CARLO'S

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#11

04-29-2007, 01:15 PM

wiz kidd

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RE: ROAD TEST: 03 SS Pace Car Edition

haha

i should do that with mine

thats a good idea for car shows...then i could add some of my gordon stuff to it too

hehe

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04-29-2007, 09:18 PM

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RE: ROAD TEST: 03 SS Pace Car Edition

Josh,

If you could collect some Earnhardt Jr. stuff and display it with your car would be a great idea.

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04-29-2007, 10:47 PM

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RE: ROAD TEST: 03 SS Pace Car Edition

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Josh,

If you could collect some Earnhardt Jr. stuff and display it with your car would be a great idea.

I think Tony Stewart stuff would be a better idea for Josh.

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04-30-2007, 08:25 AM

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RE: ROAD TEST: 03 SS Pace Car Edition

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04-30-2007, 09:05 AM

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RE: = ROAD TEST: Monte Carlo's =

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04-30-2007, 09:18 AM

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RE: = ROAD TEST: Monte Carlo's =

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04-30-2007, 06:01 PM

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RE: ROAD TEST: 03 SS Pace Car Edition

I think Tony Stewart stuff would be a better idea for Josh.

Yeah, probably. [sm=oopssign.gif][sm=signs007.gif]

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04-30-2007, 06:31 PM

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RE: ROAD TEST: 03 SS Pace Car Edition

lol..yah probably .. would make sense considering the car...but then me wearing my jeff gordon jacket wont match the car..lol

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04-30-2007, 08:45 PM

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RE: = ROAD TEST: MONTE CARLO'S =

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A Long Way From NASCAR

ByChristian Wardlaw
Date posted: 01-01-1999

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Back when stock car racing was just that, automakers had a motto: Race on Sunday, sell on Monday. After all, the cars on the track then were very similar to the ones in the showroom. Most of the basic componentry and sheetmetal were shared between race cars and street cars. Conventional wisdom said that if a car won on race day, folks would want to buy one like it the following week.

These days, stock car racing is big money. Mega-buck teams compete for media exposure as much as they do for the checkered flag. The cars are rolling billboards that all look alike; block letters on the front air dam spell "Monte Carlo" and "Thunderbird" and "Grand Prix" so that the announcers won't get confused. The only thing linking today's stock car with the one you can purchase at a local dealership is the profile of the body, which must match a template of the production car's proportions.

Take a look at the Monte Carlo Z34, the production version of Dale Earnhardt's Goodwrench Chevy. Dale runs V-8 power through the rear axle. We get a twin cam V-6 driving the front wheels. Dale gets no nonsense analog gauges. We get a basic cluster supplemented by idiot lights. Dale gets a manual transmission. We get an automatic. On the plus side, our version of the Monte Carlo is much more livable than Dale's single-seat, roll-caged coupe.

Performance with the street-legal Monte Carlo Z34 is sluggish around town, thanks to a dearth of low-end torque. The 3.4-liter OHC V-6 engine doesn't really kick in until the tachometer is showing three grand or better, at which point this Chevy is off like a shot. Handling and braking are acceptable but unremarkable. The Monte Carlo feels much larger than it is, thanks to a rather small greenhouse, poor visibility, and a hefty curb weight. The skinny leather-wrapped steering wheel doesn't make the Z34 feel particularly sporty, either.

Traditionally, the Monte Carlo has been about making a personal statement through dramatic design and luxurious appointments. This iteration delivers luxury, but little in the way of unique style. Essentially, the Monte Carlo is a Lumina coupe, and Chevy stylists didn't go very far to disguise this lineage, inside or out. The result is an attractive, yet anonymous coupe. Swept flanks and exclusive body stampings have been swapped for the convenience and cost-effectiveness of parts bin engineering.

Interior design is becoming increasingly important as we spend more and more time in our cars commuting, conducting business, eating, and banking. The Monte Carlo certainly is a comfortable car. Our tester came equipped with a power driver's seat, leather upholstery, dual zone temperature controls, and a CD player. However, Chevrolet needs to do some fine tuning inside. We found that when our right leg was propped against the center console, a rough plastic edge on the back of the console could easily shave skin. The plastic wood trim had flawed and frayed edges that looked downright tacky. Dashboard panels didn't seem to fit together well either. On the plus side, the center console is designed to hold CD's, and the split folding rear seat is handy. All controls were easy to use, particularly the excellent rotary switches for the climate control system.

[left]We had some bad luck with our test car. The first day we had it, we drove over a razor blade which promptly evacuated all the air inside the left rear tire through a large gash sliced into the inner sidewall. The replacement cost for the single Goodyear Eagle RS-A in P225/60R16 size? A whopping $160, mounted and balanced at Discount Tire. Then, the Monte Carlo began starting with some difficulty, nearly str

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05-01-2007, 08:29 AM

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RE: = ROAD TEST: MONTE CARLO'S =

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[align=center]Chevrolet Monte Carlo coupe casts a sport-minded Z34 edition[/align][align=center]

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[b]Turn Five at Road America, a 4-mile serpentine race track spread across rolling Wisconsin hills near Elkhart Lake, cuts sharply left following a half-mile down-slope straight where you can pedal up to triple-digit speeds. To earn respectable lap times, a driver must not only keep all four tires on blacktop coming around this squealer, but maintain straightaway speed until a hairy point that seems far too close to the apex: Brake too soon and you could chip valuable seconds off the lap clock; brake too late and it could cost a car or even your neck. That dicy left dog-leg I use to measure the handling merits of various models when Chevrolet turns autowriters loose on the track with the year's new crop of cars. This year, my hair-raising Chevy laps produced impressive performance tricks from a sport-tuned mid-size coupe called Z34. Less flashy renditions, currently flowing from Chevrolet's Canadian assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario, sport the name of Chevy's 1970 muscle car, Monte Carlo. What began late in 1969 as a 360-horsepower sports coupe whose front hood stretched for six feet, Monte Carlo by the 1980s scored 95 NASCAR victories in 183 Winston Cup events before being deleted in 1988. Monte Carlo returned in 1994 with futuristic lines in a mid-size format built on the same chassis that supports the popular Lumina sedan. A sleek shell, looking like it could ride the wind, conceals a taut structural system, comfortable interior components and two power choices. Monte Carlo LS, the volume model, totes V6 power with GM's 3100 series 3.1-liter engine. It pumps 160 hp, plus fuel figures kicked to 29 mpg. Yet Z34, the sporty Monte Carlo pushed around Road America, draws from a 3.4-liter dual-cam V6 with multi-valve technology that runs the power curve to 215 hp. Torque peaks at 220 lbs/ft at 4000 rpm, and there's plenty available when moving through lower gears. This is a modern engine design for Chevrolet. It consists of aluminum cylinder heads and pent-roof firing chambers featuring central positioning of spark plugs to guarantee complete combustion. Despite the high power and usable torque numbers, Z34's engine runs on regular unleaded gasoline and earns EPA fuel figures up to 26 mpg. Both LS and Z34 plants

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