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| | | Re: The New Chevy Van Body Style #54919 February 01st 2001 2:51 pm | Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 195 member | member Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 195 | to look at these vans there are just too many little things that are wrong(visually) side panels all marked out for windows, and the taillights gotto go! as far as the nose goes well i prefer a 69 chevy cargo van to newer chevy van any day (96-01)all the vans from 71- the mid 90's all look the same.just they may be a conversion van or a cargo van or even a custom van but the thing of it is that noone really pays attention to it because they look alike. if i drive my 69 van around people stop what they are doing and look. just because they don't see them all the time.(well i just wandered way off track lol)if someone likes the new chevy vans fine. they can keep it. but personally i would rather rebuild an older van then to buy a new van | | | Re: The New Chevy Van Body Style #54920 February 19th 2001 10:28 am | Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,632 Wood Carver, Supreme | Wood Carver, Supreme Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,632 | I have to agree with the general concensus! I have for the last 29 years owned CHEVY vans! What in the world was this guy thinking of when he designed this new style! You can't place a sunvisor on it, as if that would help the looks! The only thing that would help it's looks, is a "Total" van bra! Style definately was not a priority in this developement! Too bad for Chevrolet B.W.,B.V.V.,LTD. | | | Re: The New Chevy Van Body Style #54921 February 22nd 2001 8:08 am | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 960 old hand | old hand Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 960 | Looks like they ran over a Bedford with a UPS truck. The plastic, oh too much plastic. Boy do I pan for the good old days of Chevy.......Pupout | | | Re: The New Chevy Van Body Style #54922 February 22nd 2001 11:12 am | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 26 journeyman | journeyman Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 26 | I always thought that they intended it to be a full size version of the Astro. They just got to get rid of the Spaceship look of the tail lights which they obviously copied off of the Pontiac spaceship-I mean transport. Ironicly, my 90 Astro has a lot more front seat leg room. Go figure... Bill | | | Re: The New Chevy Van Body Style #54923 February 22nd 2001 7:25 pm | Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 4,043 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 4,043 | Oddly enough, the Astro was supposed to replace the full size Chevy in the 80's, it was on the drawing board before the Chrysler mini's were introduced. GM never referred to it as a "mini" during the concept stages, they called it a "mid-sized" van. The problem with the newer full size vans is that styling cues taken from a smaller van and "blown up" to full size often lose their proportion and look odd. And boy, do these new Chevys look odd! | | | Re: The New Chevy Van Body Style #54924 March 01st 2001 12:16 am | Anonymous Unregistered | Anonymous Unregistered | The late model chevys are the most god-awful ugly vans on the road. I thought ford had won the prize for ruining a decent van design, but Chevy outdid them by miles. The side panels have almost no contours, the taillights look silly and the front end looks just like the astro. Actually, the whole thing looks like an Astro on steroids. Ugly ugly ugly. The dodge vans are the only halfway decent looking vans on the road becasue they still use the same basic 1970's body shell. I have heard that they don't sell well tho. I owned a 91 Dodge briefly and it just seemed to be lacking in quality throughout, so it doesn't surprise me that there are rumors of its demise. I don't think stylists are very in tune to the van owners desires. Andy. | | |
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