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Sports cars General Motors will get carbon wheels

Спорткары General Motors получат карбоновые колесаIt is not excluded that such drives will get Chevrolet Corvette and Camaro.

General Motors is considering the possibility of installation on the sports cars and “charged” models of the brands included in its composition, carbon wheels. This is with reference to the representative of the Department of research and development U.S. automaker William Rogers reports Autoblog.

In General Motors have already started to experience such wheels, in order to find out, for example, how they react to a road defect. The automaker believes that the use of carbon fiber wheels will reduce the mass of each model is about 15 pounds, but also improve driveability of the car.

When it is on the cars General Motors appears carbon fiber wheels, is unknown. It is assumed that first they will get “charged” “the Cadillac” V-series — CTS-V and ATS-V. Not excluded that such drives will get Chevrolet Corvette and Camaro.

Some automakers already offer vehicles for their carbon fiber wheels as optional equipment. For Example, Ford. These wheels can be ordered for the reborn Ford GT supercar. The drives for the first time makes, the Australian company Carbon Revolution. It is possible that it will become a supplier of GM.

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