GM Pulls Plug on Astro/Safari

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Old Nov 17, 2004 | 09:45 PM
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GM Pulls Plug on Astro/Safari

GM Pulls Plug on Astro/Safari - - Source: The Car Connection

The mid-size, rear- or all-wheel-drive vans from General Motors are history. The Chevrolet Astro and GMC Safari will go out of production in 2005, leaving GM with its minivans and full-size vans to sell in a slowing van market. The company announced on Tuesday that the Astro/Safari twins would be discontinued and that the company would close down the Baltimore plant that assembles the vehicles, putting 1100 plant workers out of work. GM had been the last domestic maker with a rear-drive van in the class, since Ford discontinued its Aerostar in the 1990s.
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Old Nov 17, 2004 | 10:00 PM
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are you telling me the vans used to abduct little children/ getaway cars/kidnapping/ and killings IS BEING DISCONTiNUED!?!?

astro van, is probably the most villian used automobile ever created
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Old Nov 17, 2004 | 10:00 PM
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i had an 86 astro...thing ran like a champ even with very little oil and a horrible tune up...hated to see it go :'( i still kinda miss it...sniffle
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Old Nov 18, 2004 | 05:28 PM
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^ lol. I can do u one better. I still have my '97 Astro... that thing is a tank. It keeps going and going. Still, I'll probably get rid of it one of these days. I can't stand to get rid of it... sniffle.
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Old Nov 18, 2004 | 06:11 PM
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Oh man...What are the mexicans going to drive now
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Old Nov 19, 2004 | 01:07 PM
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whats is BANG BUS going to drive now?
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Old Nov 19, 2004 | 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by SanJoseRoller
are you telling me the vans used to abduct little children/ getaway cars/kidnapping/ and killings IS BEING DISCONTiNUED!?!?

astro van, is probably the most villian used automobile ever created
IIRC, it was used to kidnap the Governor's daughter in Silence of the Lamb.
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