The new Camaros!

Crash · 03-26-2009, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Asheth

No matter how great or whatever the camaro engine is. I have always been more impressed by doing more with less.

I am more impressed with the new Mustang than the SS because all GM did was dumb the base corvette engine into the car we seen on Transformers. Thats it. Did they really do much with that G8 platform if you read the Jalopinec review they say that the G8 is better pound for pound than the Camaro. America needs a shining light right now in the car industry and I believe they want that to be the camaro. GM didnt produce an engineering marvel they just dumped the Corvette engine in another car.

Ford actually took there current tech gave it a little bump in HP and produced a great vehicle that can handle.

PS. Yes the 3.7 in the Z is from the G but nissan touched the chasis lightened and upgraded interior. Reworked an already great car. It is hard to top an already great car. The new camaro is enjoying the success that the restored Z had in 03. It is no marvel but that is my 2 cents

I totally agree with that. GM cuts corners like construction paper.

The concept they had for the volt looked great, but they ended up putting in the Malibu body instead. The G8 is a pretty cool car, but now it will have a Chevy cousin. And there's really no mechanical difference between the cars at all. Platform, power train, drive train, suspension... Identical. I don't see that as an achievement, but rather a failure since they STILL are having problems getting them built even though they're just changing the body of a car already getting built! LOL Yet both cars achieve identical goals.

Now to say the Z's cousin is the G is not really correct. They don't share anything except for the motor and (for the automatics) the trans. The platform, suspension, seating, and drive train are different. They both achieve two different goals. One is a performance track car, while one is a luxury sports coupe. And both cars have highly distinguishable differences that actually help to make sense when actually trying to decide which car to buy. Purpose engineered cars with 2 completely separate markets sharing the same power train.

GM could have called this car anything they wanted. But as a marketing ploy they called it a Camaro and gave it some retro Camaro styling and marketed it to the fan boys out there. I expect that GM would have done the same for Firebirds if Pontiac didn't already have the G8... After all, what would be the point of that then? Hell, they even are going as far as to make a "FIREHAWK" G8!!! That's a sin right there.