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The New Camaro
Topic Started: May 22 2008, 06:37 PM (410 Views)
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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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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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Yup. What's funny about that is the classic Mustangs and Camaros looked nothing alike, IMO.
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My first car was a '68 'stang. What a terrible car. :lol2:
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This was mine.

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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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Doesn't look a THING like a Camaro.
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I like how the front of it looks but not the back.
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It has a weird clumsy Raymond Loewy look to it.
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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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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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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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And we wonder why our auto industry is in shambles.
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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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May 23 2008, 02:23 AM
And we wonder why our auto industry is in shambles.

Eh, it's on the rebound, so I've heard. They're not the crap they used to be.
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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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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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Looks like a Mustang/Corvette hybrid. :blink:
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May 23 2008, 10:36 AM
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. 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.

THAT is SWEET!!!! :thumb: :clap:
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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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It looked much better in the Transformers movie.
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Mikhailoh
May 23 2008, 05:07 AM
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.

Agreed. I rented one a few months back. It was fun.
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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. :shrug:
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jon-nyc
May 23 2008, 03:08 PM
Mikhailoh
May 23 2008, 05:07 AM
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.

Agreed. I rented one a few months back. It was fun.

Were you old enough to have driven a '67 Mustang and remember it that well? :confused:
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May 23 2008, 07:18 AM
Daniel
May 23 2008, 02:23 AM
And we wonder why our auto industry is in shambles.

Eh, it's on the rebound, so I've heard. They're not the crap they used to be.

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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May 24 2008, 08:22 PM
jon-nyc
May 23 2008, 03:08 PM
Mikhailoh
May 23 2008, 05:07 AM
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.

Agreed. I rented one a few months back. It was fun.

Were you old enough to have driven a '67 Mustang and remember it that well? :confused:

I guess I was agreeing with the first sentence...
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