03-15-2012, 12:34 PM | #29 |
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Im being selfish and hope that the change isnt too drastic since I am getting my car in 2012, I want it to still look good when the 2015 comes out lol, you 2010 guys had an extra 2 years with your cars than I will.
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03-15-2012, 12:36 PM | #30 |
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I think GM should poll this site for ideas and maybe even do a design contest. I'm working on a contest for Porsche right now - grand prize is 20k or a one year lease of a 911.
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03-15-2012, 12:37 PM | #31 |
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all they have to do is make it lighter, bit more powerful, spruce up the interorir materials and most importantly just have to refresh the current 5th gen design. Make it a little more bold, a little more cut. Doesnt need much. All they have to do is what Ford did with the Mustang, not a drastic change
ANYWAYS, all we know is that this current design is just like the 69, everyone is still going to be in love with it even 40 years down the line. Not giving this car up.
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03-15-2012, 12:38 PM | #32 |
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03-15-2012, 12:43 PM | #33 | |
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The most retro car of the three is the least selling one.
BUT, this comment from the comments section made me laugh me ass off. Quote:
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03-15-2012, 12:46 PM | #34 | |
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03-15-2012, 01:09 PM | #35 |
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They are well aware of the weight issue, hopefully they are able to keep that in check. If so I'm waiting for the 2017 model year- a 50th Anniversary Edition would look sweet next to my 35th and by then I should be able to afford it.
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03-15-2012, 01:10 PM | #36 |
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I think the design team should submit a couple design ideas, be it a retro 1st gen ,and a retro 2nd gen, and put it to a vote online,and forum members, to garner appropriate responses as to which direction they should take.
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03-15-2012, 01:15 PM | #37 |
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My loan would have been finished in fall of 2015 if I didn't refinance it late last year, so I'll have to wait another year. The markups for the 6th gen should be over by then.
This is all provided it looks good. Lol My preference would just be to evolve its current styling. |
03-15-2012, 01:18 PM | #38 | |
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Does that make sense? lol Im selfish too. However if its a 2015 model, mine will be paid off in time to upgrade to the 2016 model after their first year bugs are worked out. |
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03-15-2012, 01:53 PM | #39 |
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I'm with "wizard1183"...i think G.M. would benefit greatly if they were to bring back a retro of the "chevelle SS",also think if they would do the same with the "Belair" it would be a popular car for the lets say little older demographic,that said though i dont think the sales of the belair would last past a couple years,but i have always said that the redo of "chevelle SS" would be a hot seller,..sorry,kinda off topic on 6th gen but don't know how it could improve other than what others have posted,weight and better quality interior,
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03-15-2012, 02:03 PM | #40 | |
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That's when my long dormant love for the Camaro came out and I started looking into them. I have not look back since getting my 2012 Camaro. It is the most in love with a car I have ever been. |
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03-15-2012, 02:04 PM | #41 |
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It's great to see such a dynamic focus on the car. I'm sure Al O and "the team" have critical values they will ensure are maintained. This is kind of what has me bothered... and probably other insiders. GM is "threading the performance needle"... amongst stronger gov't regulation and culture wars. The new Camaro will certainly be influenced by the overall corporate cultures/controls. How many "old timers" will remain that care enough and have enough political power to overcome the downforce on this segment? We shall see..... who is next to retire?(but I'm grateful to be getting a 2012 ZL1 regardless)...
http://www.insideline.com/chevrolet/...gine-guys.html GM Losing One of Its Last Old-School Engine Guys By Bill Visnic, Senior Editor | Published Jan 18, 2012 Just the Facts: Vice Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Tom Stephens, a 43-year GM veteran with perhaps the company's deepest engine-development chops, is retiring in April. Stephens' departure comes as rumors persist that GM management decided to cut back on upgrades for its next-gen V8. Stephens is one of the last top-tier GM executives who was with the company prior to its 2009 bankruptcy and restructuring. DETROIT — General Motors announced over the weekend that Vice Chairman and Chief Technology Officer Tom Stephens will retire in April. But don't let his current banal title fool you: Stephens spent most of his time at GM engineering and hot-rodding engines and is one of the last of the remaining old-guard GM upper management qualified to lend "car-guy" support to Vice President and President of GM North America Mark Reuss. Stephens is most closely associated with GM's powertrain operations, where he served as a vice president and later, group vice president for global powertrain from 2001-'08. Stephens' gradual move away from powertrain development came as GM itself systematically incorporated powertrain engineering into its larger global product-development practices. In 1990, when GM Powertrain was formed by merging the Hydra-matic and Engine divisions, the unit was nearly as powerful as any of GM's carmaking divisions. But Powertrain's eventual absorption into the company's broad product-development processes, finalized with its joining of Global Product Operations in 2010, greatly reduced the influence of GM's engine-and transmission-engineering division and the individuals who shaped it. Stephens probably is best known as one of the primary engineers for GM's Northstar V8, the company's first contemporary overhead-cam V8 when it was launched in 1992, but he also held high-level engineering positions with GM's truck group and, more recently, as a vice president for global quality. The announcement of Stephens' retirement comes as talk in Detroit said GM upper management scuttled an investment in the company's next-generation small-block V8 and a fully developed "premium" V8 dubbed the UV8 remains on the shelf, perhaps never to be salvaged. The fifth-generation small-block will be upgraded with direct fuel injection, as GM confirmed late in 2010, but a high-tech valvetrain innovation long believed to be penned into the Gen V program reputedly was rejected as a bad investment as rigorous new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards take hold beginning in 2016 and engine downsizing is rampant in the industry. If true, the move could signal GM plans for a future in which V8s will be offered only for pickup trucks and the Chevrolet Corvette, both of which have seen relatively drastic declines in demand in recent years. The company sold just 13,164 Corvettes in 2011. Although 2011 Corvette sales were up 4.3 percent compared with 2010, since the recession, the sports car has been enduring some of its worst sales years since the early 1960s. Sales of full-size pickups such as the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra respectively were up 12.2 percent and 14.9 percent in 2011, but sales volumes in the pickup segment remain far off their historic highs and many analysts believe increasing CAFE and fuel-price pressures may mean full-size pickups never again reach their former sales glories, a possibility that may be shaping how GM is approaching its investment in the small-block V8. |
03-15-2012, 02:13 PM | #42 |
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I feel sorry for the design team, this is one tough crowd!!
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