BZG|Bling wrote:Perhaps they were comparing it to a bus
Might've been quite a nice car on a smaller chassis, pity money got in the way...
For production economy, the still-unnamed car was to share the so-called E-body shell with the redesigned 1966 Buick Riviera, which was substantially bigger than North had envisioned. Despite the efforts of Oldsmobile and General Motors styling chief Bill Mitchell to put the car on the smaller A-body intermediate, they were overruled for cost reasons.