Auto Car | Chevy SO-CAL HHR Bonneville Racer in 2006 | What happens if GM Performance Division combines tradition with PS? The result is the Bonneville HHR - a radical race car with retro styling and rocketship speed.The Bonneville bug has bitten hard GM Performance Division engineers. After two trips to the famous salt lake with near-standard cars, they are again in 2005 with their most extreme yet machine - driven by a chopped and stretched Chevrolet HHR from a 1,000-hp turbocharged Ecotec engine. The HHR is a fake sculptures Body Parts coat steel tube frame that the engine mounted amidships and get the driver in the back seat.Chevy HHR is new in 2006 is a tribute to the 1949 Suburban - the original utility vehicle. The production HHR is designed to make everything from groceries to surfboards in tow style. After the transformation of GM Performance Division and So-Cal Speed Shop is the HHR Bonneville Racer ready to overtake the G / BFCC to (G Class / Blown Fuel Competition Coupe), world speed record.
Why an HHR for the salt? Al Oppen Heiser, director of Concept Vehicle Engineering, explains: "The news from GM's leadership was clear -" Every employee must do what they can to the energy and excitement of the big new products we have started, how to communicate the HHR . "The GM Performance Division, we felt that there is no better way to contribute to the excitement of the HHR to market, as a P-racing car that could be the world speed record in the highly competitive G / break Blown Fuel Competition Coupe class build ."The basis of the nature of the Bonneville audience reached far and wide, and the GM Performance Division continues to build momentum every year with our presence," Oppenheimer added Heiser. "A new record for the HHR would also support a large contribution from our team, the GM leadership message."
GM Performance Division is highly objective, Bonneville. The G / Blown Fuel Competition Coupe record is 226.835 hours miles, was a high brand 15 years ago."The Bonneville HHR project evolved from our experience at the Salt Flats," said GM Performance Division engineer Mark Dickens. "We pushed the boundaries of the front-wheel drive with the production-based Saturn Ion Red Line and Cobalt SS Now we go in another direction with a tube-framed HHR, the rear-wheel drive has been converted to optimize traction on the salt."We are in a very challenging class in progress," he said. "We must be perfectly executed to get the record. It is a real test for us, but we are ready."
The Bonneville HHR began life on a GM assembly line in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico. The four-door steel production body was then cut seven inches and the wheelbase stretched four inches from the craftsmen at the So-Cal Speed Shop in Pomona, Calif. The shop also fabricates the drag-race-inspired, high-tensile tubular chrome molybdenum steel tubing.
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Why an HHR for the salt? Al Oppen Heiser, director of Concept Vehicle Engineering, explains: "The news from GM's leadership was clear -" Every employee must do what they can to the energy and excitement of the big new products we have started, how to communicate the HHR . "The GM Performance Division, we felt that there is no better way to contribute to the excitement of the HHR to market, as a P-racing car that could be the world speed record in the highly competitive G / break Blown Fuel Competition Coupe class build ."The basis of the nature of the Bonneville audience reached far and wide, and the GM Performance Division continues to build momentum every year with our presence," Oppenheimer added Heiser. "A new record for the HHR would also support a large contribution from our team, the GM leadership message."
GM Performance Division is highly objective, Bonneville. The G / Blown Fuel Competition Coupe record is 226.835 hours miles, was a high brand 15 years ago."The Bonneville HHR project evolved from our experience at the Salt Flats," said GM Performance Division engineer Mark Dickens. "We pushed the boundaries of the front-wheel drive with the production-based Saturn Ion Red Line and Cobalt SS Now we go in another direction with a tube-framed HHR, the rear-wheel drive has been converted to optimize traction on the salt."We are in a very challenging class in progress," he said. "We must be perfectly executed to get the record. It is a real test for us, but we are ready."
The Bonneville HHR began life on a GM assembly line in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico. The four-door steel production body was then cut seven inches and the wheelbase stretched four inches from the craftsmen at the So-Cal Speed Shop in Pomona, Calif. The shop also fabricates the drag-race-inspired, high-tensile tubular chrome molybdenum steel tubing.
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