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| The New Camaro | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 22 2008, 06:37 PM (410 Views) | |
| Luke's Dad | May 22 2008, 06:37 PM Post #1 |
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Not bad... You can see the lines, but it's not as dominating as when Dodge brought back the Charger. When you first saw the new Charger, you new it was a Charger. |
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| George K | May 22 2008, 06:40 PM Post #2 |
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Looks too Mustangy. Not that that's a bad thing, but it doesn't look like a Camaro, but a Mustang wannabe. |
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| Luke's Dad | May 22 2008, 06:43 PM Post #3 |
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Yup. What's funny about that is the classic Mustangs and Camaros looked nothing alike, IMO. |
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| George K | May 22 2008, 06:46 PM Post #4 |
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My first car was a '68 'stang. What a terrible car.
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Luke's Dad | May 22 2008, 06:53 PM Post #5 |
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This was mine. Why these things were so popukar as police vehicles, I don't know. The door was so heavy, it took 3 men and a team of clydesdalses to get them open. It couldn't have been good if an officer had to get out and pursue on foot. |
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| Mikhailoh | May 22 2008, 06:59 PM Post #6 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Doesn't look a THING like a Camaro. |
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| kenny | May 22 2008, 07:05 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I like how the front of it looks but not the back. |
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| ivorythumper | May 23 2008, 12:21 AM Post #8 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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It has a weird clumsy Raymond Loewy look to it. |
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| jon-nyc | May 23 2008, 01:00 AM Post #9 |
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Cheers
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LD - my best friend from high school had a 73 Fury. We could put half the senior class in that thing. We flipped that bad boy up in the 1000 islands one summer. I'm amazed no one was hurt. Re the Camaro, I like the resurgence of muscle cars generally, this one seems like a good design, but like others have said it may be insufficiently camaro-like to conjure up nostalgia like the new Mustang and Charger do. |
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| jon-nyc | May 23 2008, 01:04 AM Post #10 |
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Thinking some more about this, I think the problem is that the Camaro was never a muscle car, it was a sports car. So trying to make it look like a muscle car doesn't work as well. |
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| Mikhailoh | May 23 2008, 01:07 AM Post #11 |
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I'll tell you - Ford did an exceptional job on the new Mustangs. The look, the drive feel, the view from the driver's seat - everything is like the 67's, their best year. I haven't seen a new Challenger up close yet but those were very cool rides. |
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| Daniel | May 23 2008, 02:23 AM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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And we wonder why our auto industry is in shambles. |
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| Jolly | May 23 2008, 07:15 AM Post #13 |
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I dunno...I see some of the lines of the '68 Camaro in the sheetmetal. Lousy time for the Bowtie Boys to bring it out, though... |
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| Aqua Letifer | May 23 2008, 07:18 AM Post #14 |
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Eh, it's on the rebound, so I've heard. They're not the crap they used to be. |
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| Free Rider | May 23 2008, 07:24 AM Post #15 |
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does it come in a hybrid? :lol: I'll bet by the time 2010 rolls around gas prices will make it a very unpopular vehicle. |
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| Kincaid | May 23 2008, 07:36 AM Post #16 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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While I love the current Mustang (and the 2009 redesign looks good too) I find little to like in this Camaro. This was a much better design: http://www.popularhotrodding.com/features/...cept/index.html It was designed independently of GM. The designer was a 19-year-old graphic artist. They should have hired this guy and made it work. As for the Challenger, I like its looks but it is literally a HUGE car - based on a shortened chassis of the Chrysler 300. Put it side by side with a 1970 Challenger and it just dwarfs it. |
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| Frank_W | May 23 2008, 07:39 AM Post #17 |
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Looks like a Mustang/Corvette hybrid.
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| Frank_W | May 23 2008, 07:40 AM Post #18 |
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THAT is SWEET!!!!
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Kincaid | May 23 2008, 08:01 AM Post #19 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Since I think Chevy missed the boat a bit on the new Camaro, they could redeem themselves by taking Horton's design, shrink it to 3/4 scale and make it a two-seater to compete with Miata. Build it on the plaform for the Solstice/Sky. |
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| Red Rice | May 23 2008, 08:31 AM Post #20 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It looked much better in the Transformers movie. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| jon-nyc | May 23 2008, 11:08 AM Post #21 |
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Agreed. I rented one a few months back. It was fun. |
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| Axtremus | May 24 2008, 04:21 PM Post #22 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Drove a Charger recently (as a rental). Not "bad" (actually, better than most other American rental cars I've driven). But still not as smooth as a Honda Civic Hybrid or Toyota Camry.
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| Axtremus | May 24 2008, 04:22 PM Post #23 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Were you old enough to have driven a '67 Mustang and remember it that well?
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| Daniel | May 24 2008, 04:29 PM Post #24 |
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I think they should concentrate on something other than "muscle cars" at this point, I mean with gas going up 30 cents every other week. And it's not like the price of gas hasn't been rising dramatically for years. In terms of quality- Ford is running a commercial saying that their quality is now equal to Toyota. That's a pretty bold statement- no matter what shilling consumer reporting agency they're using to justify saying it. They have a lot to prove. Show me a Focus in ten years, show me that its engine hasn't experienced catastrophic failure at 80,000 miles, and show me that its maintenance costs at ten years are no higher than a Honda Civic. Until then, they've done too much wrong, for too long, for me to trust them with my money. |
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| jon-nyc | May 24 2008, 04:32 PM Post #25 |
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I guess I was agreeing with the first sentence... |
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