Curtains for Vibe

[Petervisor]

This has the basis of a good April 1st joke. I wish I'd thought of it back then.Pictures:http://crunch22.blogspot.com/2....html-------------Many members on the forum are curious about the future of the Vibe when Toyota begins manufacturing the new Corolla (150L) in January. To the best of my knowledge, the Vibe will continue unchanged except for a possible name change to G-something. I don't doubt that Toyota can produce an old and new chassis on the same production line. Rumours abound that the Corolla will have a Hybrid option.

[joatmon]

From the thread title of "Curtains for Vibe" it was going to be about you either sold or had totalled your Vibe.

[Vibr8tr]

Was that your Vibe?

[Neouka]

Odd.. I always thought the side airbags were in the seat, not the roof...

[ColonelPanic]

Quote, originally posted by Neouka »Odd.. I always thought the side airbags were in the seat, not the roof...There are a couple different types of side air bags - some cars only have them in the front seats, others have curtains that deploy from the roof that can protect both front and rear passengers. Other cars have them both in the seats and in the roof.'03-'04 Vibes only had the ones in the seats, the '05+ had both IIRC.Anyhow, I thought the Vibe had both types now? Shouldn't that side air bag in the seat be deployed? Or is it not just in the picture?At any rate, thanks petervisor - I now know what you guys did to the Vibe I used to have before it got fixed back up and shipped out to me. hehehe!

[Kari]

But if the new '08 Vibe is unveiled at the New York Auto Show, wouldn't that mean production should hopefully begin before January on it as well?

[Petervisor]

Even if the model change for the vibe is just a very minor face-lift, Toyota will make the model change at the same time as the Corolla model change.Before we began building the current style Corolla/Vibe, the changover was completed during the Xmas shutdown. Some of us worked over the holidays to build pilot vehicles. I'm pretty sure we'll do the same thing this Xmas.

[scherry2]

Quote, originally posted by Petervisor » Some of us worked over the holidays to build pilot vehicles. I'm pretty sure we'll do the same thing this Xmas.they were pretty hush hush when they built the pilots for the GMT900 trucks. no pics and only a select group just like you got to build them. then when production started the rest of us got to see them for the 1st time.

[vibebuilder]

I think the first pilot vehicles will be built in June or July of this year.SOP (start of production) is around the end of January 2008.

[Kari]

GM is making the '08 model sound like it's a major change, although if production doesn't start until January, given the way they have been releasing Vibes, it almost seems like that might be an '09 released early in 2008. If it turns out to be nothing more than a name change, I think a lot of people (including myself) will be disappointed...come on GM, don't make this like the G6 where you make a lot of hype about it (*cough*Oprah*cough*) then it's not available to the general public.

[Petervisor]

At NUMMI, the pilot parts for the new Corolla (150L) and Vibe(152L) are stored outside the cafeteria. I took a look at the quarter panel for the 152L. I could only see that the window between the 'C' and 'D' pillar is smaller and triangular.NUMMI is keeping the Vibe hidden for proprietary reasons, but when these body panels are displayed out in the open I feel free to pass along the info.

[MRCN RCE]

excuse my ignorance, but what is "150L" & "152L"??

[Petervisor]

Internally, Toyota calls the next generation Corolla the 150L. They call the next Vibe the 152L.According to NUMMI News (a weekly NUMMI flier) the first "sellable units aren't scheduled to roll off the line until Jan 22, 2008."

[kostby]

With that late of a production date, I suppose they'll skip the 2008 model year entirely and call it a 2009, just like all the "2003" Vibes that were built beginning in early 2002. (My 2003 was built in May 2002)