The Chevy Lumina's seats were soft, overstuffed and still arranged in a classic bench configuration, even though a middle arm rest folded down, and the seats could be individually moved front and back. Ohh, a pointy nose, something that stabs, something that cuts! I'm going to kick some ass at this regional meeting! I'm going to conceive a child in Kissimmee-St-Cloud! A good rental car promises Good Times are coming, just by the arrangement of its front fascia. Car rental companies always back cars into slots so you see the car face-first.
LUMINA CAR DRIVERS
Understand that rental cars are driven by temporary drivers who are coming to a strange town for pleasure or business (which will allow them to afford pleasure later). You think this doesn't matter much but it does. The nose comes to a point, as opposed to the nose of a Ford Taurus, which is blunt. Not my car? Floor it everywhere! I'm paying such-and-such for this car, and if I have to bring the tank back full, I'm going to damn well enjoy it. In a rental car, you want an engine that will take abuse because it will be punished EVERY SINGLE DAY. Iron Duke: An engine with a note more hollow than your father's compliments when you showed him your homemade comic book drawn on lined stationary. The speedo needle sweeps from 62 to 65mph "Oh yea she's got some power!" Dad nods. At wide-open-throttle, the Iron Duke gives a patronizing rumble up to a safely-restricted 4,900 RPM and rations out maybe 80 horsepower. "Let's see what this baby can do!" says Dad Stonoslovski, his eyeglass straps waving behind his thick neck. Mom and Dad Stonoslovski shove their foot to the floor of their Lumina Rental car. Your average vacationers believe some grand epiphany awaits inside Spaceship Earth, and who can blame them? They're driving as fast as they can toward America's Mecca. The Iron Duke is the engine you want if you're going to rent cars to bewildered parents flying into Orlando, Florida. It was a low-revving, low-compression engine more famous for moving Jeeps and The Grumman LLV, aka the United States Postal Service truck. In 1989, the Iron Duke was dropped in a passenger car styled to convince Middle America that General Motors was ready for the future.Ĭhevy Lumina: The car driven by that girl from high school who your mom set you up with because of Church Consistory politics.
The Iron Duke was a 2.5L four cylinder from 1977. The base motor was the Awkward-Thanksgiving Iron Duke Four. It did this with its engine, nose (front fascia), seats, transmission, and retirement. The Lumina battled the Taurus by becoming the ultimate rental car of the early '90s. The Lumina was GM's answer to the ubiquitous Taurus. GM had to play catch-up real fast, as was sometimes the case with the Big Three. The Taurus had no hard boxy edges that so defined the decade of synth. The Lumina II model is a car manufactured by Chevrolet, sold new from year 1995 until 1998, and available after that as a used car.Ford was digging the 1980's a grave as early as 1986 with the Taurus. For stopping power, the Lumina II 3.1i braking system includes Discs at the front and Discs at the rear. Stock tire sizes are 205 / 70 on 15 inch rims at the front, and 205 / 70 on 15 inch rims at the rear. anti-roll bar front suspension and Leaf spring. On the topic of chassis details responsible for road holding, handling behavior and ride comfort, the Lumina II has Independent. The power is transmitted to the road by the front wheel drive (FWD) with a 4 speed Automatic gearbox. This engine produces a maximum power of 162 PS (160 bhp - 119 kW) at 5200 rpm and a maximum torque of 251 Nm (185 lb.ft) at 4000 rpm. With 0 to 100 km/h (62mph) in 10.0 seconds, a maximum top speed of 118 mph (190 km/h), a curb weight of 3329 lbs (1510 kgs), the Lumina II 3.1i has a naturally-aspirated V 6 cylinder engine, Petrol motor.
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