The new Camaros!

MightyBobo

Stock for stock, the numbers have already proved the new Mustang handles the skid pad better than the new Camaro. But I think in a road course, the Camaro might have the edge merely because of the IRS...


Either way, I think some decent mods and a diet of sorts could make the new Camaro a superstar on the track...but you'd have to lose quite a bit of weight.

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Robert_Nash

All true I think but the only way the Camaro can go on a significant diet is with lighter components which = more money.

GM doesn't have the $$$ and even if they did, the Camaro is already on the wrong end of its appropriate price point.

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MightyBobo

Why do you say that? Its already being considered a bargain for the price...performance wise at least. How many other 400+ HP cars are out that are that cheap?

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Robert_Nash

What part of my statement don't you agree with?

That GM has no money for development or the price point?

If it's the price point it is what it is.

The Camaro's primary audiance are the exact same as those of the Mustang...a Camaro with the performance everyone is drooling over is already dangerously close to the Corvette's price point and more than the Mustang; at least in the bread and butter/low-end models - GM absolutely cannot price the Camaro much higher than it is and putting the kind of high-tech weight savings components and manufacturing techniques necessary to shave any real weight from this car is EXPENSIVE...GM would never make its investment back.

Frankly, if I ever buy another GM product it's like to be a CTSV or a "Vette - the camaro simply donesn't make financial sense anymore.

When I bought my most expensive TransAM (a brand new '79; it was around $9K and that was a Black/Gold edition with every option available - the only thing more expensive that year was the the 10th Anniversary...in comparrison, a Corvette was selling for about double that if my memory is correct...that's a huge difference in money out of pocket and in price point.

Now, a well equiped base Corvette (whish is a hell of a good performance car) is only aobut 19% more expensive than the top-dog Camaro...I just can't see GM allowing the Camaro to get much clsoer (that's assuming of course that GM's new CEO, Mr. B.O. doesn't kill of cars like the Camaro and Corvette).

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