![]() The standard engine for the base Lumina car is GM's workaday 2.5-liter, throttle-body fuel-injected, four-cylinder model rated 110 horsepower at 5,200 rpm. (GM still produces the Celebrity station wagon to placate those buyers who find the APV's exterior angles too rakish.) The Lumina line is available with four or two doors a minivan version, the Lumina APV, thankfully offers us refreshingly different auto wagon design. Also, like the Celebrity, the Lumina will be a top choice of fleet buyers - corporations buying four or more cars annually for company use. Like the Celebrity, the Lumina is a front-wheel-drive car capable of seating six passengers. They'd rather take polls.īackground: The Lumina replaces the Chevrolet Celebrity sedan, another work of automotive convention. Auto companies don't want to take chances with that kind of money. It costs hundreds of millions of dollars to develop a mass-market car like the Lumina. It would've been nice if GM had shown some guts and allowed its most imaginative, irreverent, audacious designers and engineers to work their special magic on the Lumina sedan. Thus, we have the Lumina Euro sedan - a car so distressingly predictable in styling and performance, so deliberately absent of personal identification, it's impossible to hate or love. It strives for the acceptable, the ideal - usually that which is the least offensive to the largest number of people. ![]() Consensus tends to ignore details and quirks. Heck, most of those folks couldn't agree on what makes a family, let alone a "perfect" car to serve a family. Several million opinions on something as elusive as perfection. General Motors wanted to get this one right, and so it surveyed several million people, most of them current and former Chevrolet owners, to determine what makes the "perfect" family car. GM's 1990 Chevrolet Lumina Euro sedan is a case in point. THE TROUBLE WITH consensus is that it ultimately lacks personality.
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