Toys4RJill

Well that is news to me, in the three years I owned my CT, I never once opened the hood. As for the LFA, I will check mine and see if it has a prop

Hoovey689

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LFA uses a CF prop

mmarshall

My former IS300 had one. And I think pbm317 is right; CT200h does, too....which is not surprising. I said, when I reviewed the CT, that it may have been better-marketed as a Toyota, though there is no denying its sales success.

He's also correct that we're getting off topic.

mmarshall

Here's a very important update...and we can give rkyat credit for bringing it to our attention by posting it in another SS thread. I felt it was important enough to add it to the formal SS review I did. A traditional 3-pedal manual transmission, the sophisticated electronic GM Magnaride suspension, and some new colors (including my personal favorite, purple) are being added.

http://jalopnik.com/chevrolet-ss-man...irm-1607990115

Hoovey689

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Exciting indeed. GM's MRC is one of the best in the business, coupled with the traditional 3-pedals, this should prove to be one engaging sedan.

The purple may be a bit nostalgic to some too

mmarshall

Ford and GM, though, back in the 1960s when the original SS was at its peak, never, to my memory, used purple as production color. Dodge/Plymouth and AMC did from '69 to '74, depending on year and model.

rkyat

Wasn't the first gen camaro available in purple?

Hoovey689

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I've seen Chargers and Barracuda's in purple, so regardless it's a muscle car thing. Many restore projects use shades of it too. Don't think I've ever seen a Road Runner other than in yellow.

mmarshall

Road Runners, Superbirds, and other Plymouth muscle-cars were offered in the same bright purple, in 1970 and 1971, as the Dodges. Dodge called it Plum-Crazy, Plymouth, In-Violet (the Plymouth marketers originally wanted to call it Statutory Grape, but the managers turned it down).

mmarshall

Not that I can remember, unless it was a special-order color. GM did, however, from my memory, have some very light lavender/purplish-silver shades in the mid-1960s.

Hoovey689

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are you kidding me? That's clever but wow

rkyat

Had to check myself, apparently there was a plum option. But holy s*** at all these choices.
http://www.69pace.com/paint.htm

mmarshall

My original IS300 did, but the original IS, of course was just a converted Toyota Altezza.

From what I remember in high school (I was a senior in 1970) that's what the auto press was saying at the time.

It was a nickname that some in Chrysler marketing considered using (and one that some auto journalists called it). But management, even back then before the days of the extreme political correctness we see today, thought was simply too controversial. They would not approve its use in the actual Dodge Plymouth product brochures for that paint-code. That, of course, was back before web-sites, and the only real information/access to factory-specs came from printed company sources in the media or brochures.