Page 34, February 4, 1979 - Sunday News

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General Motors of Canada
‘has announced that plans
“are underway to ‘sub-
~stantially expand its Cold
Weather Development
. Centre in Kapuskasing in
Northern Ontario.

Frank C. Fleck, GM of
Canada Direttor ‘of
Engineering and Forward
Planning, announced that an
additional 135 acres of land

‘had been purchased, ad-
jacent to GM’s existing 23-
acre property.

Some 75 acres of the new
purchase will incorporate a
1.85 km driveability road to
provide a suitable area to

conduct many of the
specialized programs
required for vehicle

evaluation.

Mr. Fleck said that since
GM’s Cold Weather
Development Centre of-
ficially opened as a per-
manent facility in 1973,
availability. to the entire
General Motors Corporation

awareness of the many
problems encountered by a
vehicle in a cold weather
environment.

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Motors are no newcomers to :

Kapiskasirig; they’ve been
coming to this paper mill
town some 800 km north of
Toronto since 1953. GM
chose the area because it is a
natural cold weather
laboratory where ~ its
engineers could evaluate
vehicles under consistent
conditions of extreme cold
— often to 40 degrees below
zero.

Although’ not evident to
the casual observer, vehicles
“being ‘evaluated are
generally equipped with
experimental
and systems, and many pre-

' production features destined

for future GM cars.
Development activities
performed at the

Kapuskasing Centre fall into

components.

GM expands cold weath
sting centre

two main categories, overall ©

vehicle evaluation, and
evaluation of the function of
specific systems and
components.

Overall vehicle evaluation
is conducted by subjecting a
fleet of vehicles to 19,200 km
of a “Customer Service”
schedule, so named because
it is designed: to accelerate

the type of service to whicha

vehicle is’ subjected by an
average motorist in severe
winter operation.

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Vehicles travel 320 km
(200 miles) per. day over a
route that includes some of
Kapuskasing’s road system
and a 192 km (120 mile)

straight stretch ot Highway

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vehicle

The route simulates ;
ban, rural. and highway
driving situations.

as doors, windows, trur
lids, mirrors, antennas, etc

number of cycles to ensure
that all components of the
have been
thoroughly evaluated. us

‘The. vehicles operate |
this schedule for. 4
proximately 60 days ‘from
mid-November to mid:
March during which tim
Kapuskasing-area weather is

occasional thaws, all oO
which combine to set‘-u

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SPORTY CAMARO “Berlinetta” debuts - A sporty and luxurious new top- -of-the-line
model joins the popular Camaro for 1979.-The Berlinetta has unique pin steering,

bright two-tier grille treatment, black painted rocker panels, body-color styled wheels
and special rear lamp styling. Inside, Berlinetta has a new custom interior and special

bucket seats, available on other Camaro models as options. Berlinetta’s standard pin
striping includes dual pin strips across the front and rear bumpers, on centre and rear
edge of hood, around side and rear windows, across the rear deck over taillights, over
wheel openings, along rocker panels and around sport mirrors. Standard power is the
4.1 litre (250 CID) L-6 engine, with options of a 5.0 litre (305 CID) and 5.7 litre (350
CID) V-8 engines. Both of the V-8's have cold driving improvements and are
calibrated to Canadian emission standards for improved driveability.

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