Welcome to the GM W-Body Club!
Here is a web site with car parts just for W-Body cars: http://www.wbodystore.com
Here is a link to the W-Body website: http://www.w-body.com
Here is a link to the W-Body forum: http://www.w-body.com/forum
The W-body is an automobile platform from General Motors which underpins mid-size cars with front-wheel drive. The platform, originally code named GM10, began in 1982 under Chairman Roger B. Smith and debuted in 1988 with the Pontiac Grand Prix, the Buick Regal, and the Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme coupes. Sedans followed for 1990. The platform cost $7 billion to develop and was to replace all midsize cars produced by Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, and Buick.
The plan was huge in scope, calling for seven plants that would each
assemble 250,000 of the cars, or 21% of the total U.S. car market.
It was badly executed from the start, but GM’s 1984 reorganization,
combined with changing market dynamics wrought havoc on the program and
it never recovered. By 1989, the year before the last of the original GM10's were launched, GM was losing $2000 on every one of the cars it produced. The later revision of this platform was known as the MS2000 or simply the W2-Car.
Early versions used a fiberglass monoleaf spring in the rear, while
second generation cars and the 1995 and up Lumina use a fully independant suspension front and rear with coil springs.
W-Body cars
2005-2008 Buick Allure
1997-2005 Buick Century
2005-2008 Buick LaCrosse
1988-2004 Buick Regal
2000-2009 Chevrolet Impala
1990-2001 Chevrolet Lumina
1995-2007 Chevrolet Monte Carlo
1988-1997 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
1998-2002 Oldsmobile Intrigue
1988-2008 Pontiac Grand Prix
