Reply With QuoteI want to see the front end...
I may have to trade the Miata in 2009
Under the car’s bulging hood sits a Corvette-derived 6.0-liter LS2 V8, tuned to crank out 400 hp and anchored to a Tremec T56 six-speed manual transmission. The engine also makes use of cylinder-deactivation technology to increase fuel efficiency. Chevy expects the Camaro to achieve 30 mpg on the freeway.
Handling duties fall to a four-wheel independent suspension, with MacPherson struts up front, a multilink design in back and progressive-rate coil springs and gas-pressurized dampers all around. It’s basically a derivative of the General’s Australian-built (and briefly canceled for export here from Down Under) Zeta rear-drive platform, which we expect will underpin a future Pontiac GTO as well as other U.S.-bound GM vehicles.
The show car sits on a set of flashy concept-specific wheels, 21-inch alloys up front wrapped in 245/30 rubber, with 305/30R-22s putting the power down in back. All four wheels house four-piston calipers gripping 14-inch vented disc brakes.
Under the car’s bulging hood sits a Corvette-derived 6.0-liter LS2 V8, tuned to crank out 400 hp and anchored to a Tremec T56 six-speed manual transmission. The engine also makes use of cylinder-deactivation technology to increase fuel efficiency. Chevy expects the Camaro to achieve 30 mpg on the freeway.
Handling duties fall to a four-wheel independent suspension, with MacPherson struts up front, a multilink design in back and progressive-rate coil springs and gas-pressurized dampers all around. It’s basically a derivative of the General’s Australian-built (and briefly canceled for export here from Down Under) Zeta rear-drive platform, which we expect will underpin a future Pontiac GTO as well as other U.S.-bound GM vehicles.
The show car sits on a set of flashy concept-specific wheels, 21-inch alloys up front wrapped in 245/30 rubber, with 305/30R-22s putting the power down in back. All four wheels house four-piston calipers gripping 14-inch vented disc brakes.
If the real car is anything close to this, I may have to buy one. That thing is smokin'! It makes the Mustang look as sedate as a hybrid.
S.
Me 2!Originally Posted by Treibenschnell
Here you go.
Meh, got a face only a mother could love!
I love the rear fenders from the front 3/4 view.
That thing is just as UGLY as the original...
Give me a '68 Mustang GT Convertable any day over the same era Generic Motors product.
Daily Driver: 2013 Club edition in Pearl White Mica
Lightness? What's that? I drive a PRHT!
Damn, that front end is a letdown. The rest of the car is smokin'!
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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If it looked like this, then yes, it would be smokin'!
Whats with all the retro? Its not that most of them aren't bad looking cars, but seriously, give me somthing I haven't seen before. Gosh! BTW, I was at Classic Mazda in Denton last week and they have a 2005 Mazdaspeed MX5 for $5k off sticker. It was black, so I was drooling.
"Racing makes heroin addiction look like a vague longing for something salty" - Peter Egan
Wait until around March & check the prices then....
Daily Driver: 2013 Club edition in Pearl White Mica
Lightness? What's that? I drive a PRHT!
These guy wanted to make me a deal, I talked 2 grand off of the the 02 black and tan that my dad wanted me to look at, before I test drove it. It was a nice car.Wait until around March & check the prices then....
"Racing makes heroin addiction look like a vague longing for something salty" - Peter Egan
Here's the Camaro in red. It looks like Chevy is really going to build this thing come 2009. Given the success of the Solstice looking like a show car on the road, I bet the production version looks quite similar to the show car. You people who don't like the front end styling are either crazy or.
And while the styling might be quasi-retro, it's not pure-retro like the Mustang (or Challenger).
S.
Me likey the old one. Me no likey the new one.
Regardless, the General will figure out some way to f*ck it up once it hits production.
BTW,
I love the styling of the new Mustang and the new Charger. Retro is great because we are finally seeing some style from the domestic manufacturers even if they are stealing from the stylists of the 40s and 60s. From about 1980 to 1998 or whenever Dodge started pumping out it's Vipers, Prowlers, PT Cruisers the Big 3 have produce very little in the way of memorable or desireable cars.
Can you name any stand out vehicles in regards to styling from Detroit in the 80s or 90s? Oooo! Citation, Escort, K-Car! Bleah...
I say, bring the retro back as long as it's done right. Sadly, the new Camaro doesn't look "right" to me.
What what about the Chrysler Cordoba with the rich Corinthian leather!
Now THAT I like.........
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