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Changes to the Bonneville for '98 are few: Highlights are the mating of the high-torque-capacity 4T65-E four-speed automatic transmission (previously only available on supercharged engines) to the naturally aspirated powerplant and standard fitment of a rear deck spoiler on SE models.
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It's a seriously flexible brand that can compete against everything from Chevy's massive rear-drive hot-rod Caprice to the fashionable new Concorde. The last time we featured a Bonneville SE, we matched it up with a Chevrolet Impala SS and a Ford Taurus SHO. We now return you to the regularly scheduled comparison, already in progress. Clearly, automobile performance has increased at a rate rivaling the near-ballistic Dow Jones Industrial Average. And both cars' 60-0-mph stopping distances (130 feet for the Concorde, 137 for the Bonneville) would have been top-10 performances. (The Concorde would have been an acceleration also-ran with an 8.1-second performance.) The Concorde's 63.8-mph slalom run would put it an incredible third, ahead of the Corvette, while Bonneville's 61.2-mph cone-dodge would have been good enough for 13th. Also, the automatic-transmissioned Bonneville's 7.3-second 0-60-mph run would have bested five-speed versions of the 300ZX and Supra Turbo, among others. In at least one test-track performance parameter, the Concorde LXi would have topped all 17 neck-snapping bad-boy Bangers-including the Chevrolet Corvette, Nissan 300ZX, Toyota Supra Turbo, Ford Mustang LX, and Pontiac Trans Am. We interrupt this comparison test to bring you the following breaking news bulletin: Attention performance-oriented drivers, these are the good, old days! To put the performance of these big, comfort-is-king sedans in historical perspective: Both would have fared extremely well in our 1989 Bang for the Buck shootout.