Next generation Chevrolet Camaro to share platform with Cadillac ATS

In case you’re an automaker which needs to cut costs left and right, one of the first things you need to do is to share as many platforms among your models. For General Motors, which desperately wants to cut any big spending, this means that new models will begin using less and less platforms.

One major car set to arrive in the following years is the Cadillac ATS, which will use an all-new rear-wheel drive platform, presumably called the Alpha. Besides plans of adapting it and using it for the next generation CTS, which will aspire to more BMW 5 Series-like dimensions, it seems that the regular Alpha will also constitute the base for the next Chevrolet Camaro.

The current Chevy uses the Zeta platform, alongside the Holden Commodore from Australia and the late Pontiac G8. Although it has been praised, the lack of support for other systems and new technologies is extremely apparent, so GM will definitely change it with the next generation.

All in all, such a change, if it will actually happen, will definitely help GM’s rear-wheel drive cars, whether they are the Camaro, the ATS or the next CTS.

Source: Motor Trend via Autoblog

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