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The Chevrolet Celebrity is a front-drive, mid-size passenger car line, manufactured and marketed by Chevrolet for model years 1982–1990, over a single generation. Marking the transition of the mid-size Chevrolet range to front-wheel drive, the Celebrity succeeded the rear-drive Chevrolet Malibu line.
It was a transverse version produced from 1980 through 1986 for the A-body and X-body cars. The standard ("X-code") engine for this line, it used a two-barrel carburetor . Output was 115 hp (86 kW) for 1980–81, 112 hp (84 kW) for 1982–86, and 135 lb⋅ft (183 N⋅m) in high-output versions.
Between 1983 and 1986, 814 Cutlass Ciera convertibles were made by Hess & Eisenhardt/Car Craft. [13] These vehicles were Brougham (1983 to mid-1986) and SL (mid-1986) coupes, modified with leather interior and chassis reinforcement to provide the needed structural rigidity that was lost by removing the roof.
The Chevrolet Celebrity—the front-drive mid-size entry that made its debut as an '82 model—emerges as the best-selling car in the United States for 1986, supplanting its smaller sibling, the ...
However, a new labor pact and improved quality, plus the availability of government-backed interest-free loans, prompted GM to expand and modernize the facility. Production of the Cutlass Supreme and Grand Prix stopped in February 1987 and the plant was retooled to build the Chevrolet Celebrity, using equipment transferred from Oshawa. [2]
1986: Chevrolet Celebrity. Units sold: 408,946 The Chevrolet Celebrity lasted just a single generation over the course of a nine-year run after debuting in model year 1982. Its moment in the sun ...
Released in April 1979 as a 1980 model-year vehicle, [8] the Chevrolet Citation replaced the Chevrolet Nova as the compact car line for the division; it also became the first Chevrolet to feature front-wheel drive. Downsized nearly as extensively as the Caprice/Impala and the Malibu, the Citation shed 20 inches of length, 4 inches of width, and ...
1982: The Chevrolet Celebrity, Pontiac 6000, Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera and Buick Century two and four door models are introduced. 1983: Pontiac introduces the sporty STE variant of their 6000. Oldsmobile introduces the ES performance package for their Cutlass Ciera four door models. 1984: All four divisions now offered the new wagon body style.