GM Impala
This article is a tribute to my favorite car. Mine (2001 model year Impala) had over 850,000 km before I gave it away...
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Great Reliable Car
GM got this one right!
I couldn't resist writing an article about my car. I do a lot of driving. After so many miles, I know my car so well. The entire exhaust was still original. The transmission had to be changed at 500k, but the engine was still "factory." I rarely changed the oil (only every 20,000km to 25,000km or so). I learned long ago that the recommendations to change the oil every 5000km is quite ridiculous if you put on a lot of kilometers in a very short interval. Some people I know NEVER change the oil, and their car is FINE right until the end!In my 2001 impala, only the gas gauge sensor failed, all the other sensors were still the originals. Forget about engine shampoo, no way! In previous cars that I'd owned, as soon as I cleaned the engine, the problems would start. I learned that, unless a real professional does it, never ever touch the engine. No Way!
Look at how dirty it got...
The car doesn't mind. Nobody on the street can see under the hood anyway. Everything was working perfectly when I gave it away. The engine was quiet and smooth, even the transmission was perfect.
My next car was also an Impala...of course!
MY ENGINE in my Impala (ewww...yuk!...)
Close-up of top of strut assembly (so dirty)
GM IMPALA INFORMATION
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- Impala: Cars: Chevrolet
- Key features and pricing for Impala. Links to shopping tools and standard and optional features.
- CanadianDriver: First Drive - 2006 Chevrolet Impala
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- Chevrolet Impala From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 2001 Chevrolet Impala - Consumer Guide Automotive
- 2001 Chevrolet Impala highlights from Consumer Guide Automotive. Learn about the 2001 Chevrolet Impala and see 2001 Chevrolet Impala pictures.
- Impala brochure
- Build your IMPALA!
- 2009 Chevrolet Impala Overview Page
- The premium mid-size sedan that's built to your exacting specifications. The 2009 Chevrolet Impala.
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IMPALA the animal
Yes, the name did come from this creature!
An impala (Aepyceros melampus Greek ?????, aipos "high" ?????, ceros "horn" + melas "black" pous "foot") is a medium-sized African antelope. The name impala comes from the Zulu language. They are found in savannas and thick bushveld in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, northern Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, southern Angola, northeastern South Africa and Uganda (the source of that country's capital city's name - Kampala).
Impala
best car ever
The Impala underwent a substantial makeover in 2007 with much of the engineering work done in Oshawa, Ontario (CANADA) where the Impala is built.
2007 IMPALA
2008 IMPALA (sexy)
2009 Impala (wow)
2010 Impala (still on the drawing board)
Impala in BLOGS
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- Chosen One - 1961 Chevrolet Impala
- Chosen One - 1961 Chevrolet Impala Check out this black vintage, fully restored 1961 Chevrolet Impala in this month's issue of Lowrider Magazine. Sometimes you're chosen and other times you choose. Many in the lowrider scene are chosen ...
- Chosen One - 1961 Chevrolet Impala
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- 2004 Chevrolet Impala - $12900
- 51677 KM, Not Certified, OSHAWA, ON.
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Inside the drivers side!
Great DVD
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Early days at GM
Classic General Motors Auto Manufacturing Films DVD: 1930s Automobile & Car Manufacturing Industry Films
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Product Description
This DVD contains two brilliantly made industrial propaganda films produced by General Motors Co. used to promote the continued growth of the automobile industry.
Packed full of footage of automobile manufacturing plants and workers in action these films bring the history of auto making back to life.
Table Of Contents: (1) From Dawn To Sunset (1937) - General Motors propaganda film promoting industrial manufacturing as the key to America's success. Includes great footage from some of the 12 plants located in different cities across America including, Tarrytown NY, Flint MI, Oakland CA, Detroit MI, Atlanta GA, Buffalo NY, Janesville WI, Norwood Cincinnati OH, Baltimore MD, & St. Louis MO.
Day breaks in the East and the mighty Army rises. Not an Army marching to the deep and desolate roar of shells, but a mighty army of workers who go forth accompanied by the whistles from America's greatest factories - While their giant smoke stacks write across the skies promise of a new prosperity in a land where that prosperity brings a fuller life to every man who labors and who serves. And as each builder marches forth to shape his destiny tens of thousands more go with him, side by side - and so each one is multiplied.
2) Master Hands (1936) - Spectacular film filled with general motors manufacturing plant workers in action. Film begins with the following exert "Today twenty five million people are driving motor cars on the streets and highways of America. To provide this transportation over 5,060,000 skilled workers are occupied. The twenty five million drivers and their families who depend on these workers for personal transportation have little opportunity to see at work the skilled craftsmen whose master hands command the great machinery of production. But day after day this great drama goes on in the foundries and factories and the assembly plants in which these cars are made.
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comments or suggestions
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CAB803
ya steve you are right im on my second impala .the first was 2002 this one is a 2005 . almost the same car really.i think that 2010 impala looks hot Posted July 06, 2008 |
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Rokusan
Hey Steve -- found you at Twitter, had to check out your Impala lens simply because it's about a car. But ... no way I'll ever see myself in an Impala. I have my own shrine lens to the Mustang, Charger, and Camero (REALLY about using less gas, but I had to indulge a little in dreaming on), but the coolest car out there on the road in the entire world, in my opinion, is the Bugatti Veyron, in red & black. Posted June 12, 2008 |
Maybe I should get an Impala also!
Posted May 17, 2008
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mosaic
I wish I was little bit taller, I wish I was a baller, I wish I had a girl who looked good, Posted May 15, 2008 |
I like the Impala, tough car.
Posted May 10, 2008
