04-07-2010, 04:19 PM | #57 | |
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04-07-2010, 05:04 PM | #58 |
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Twin Turbo, 3.6 + V6, all wheel drive Super Car. This is the car that GM can finally build and draw from the import buyers. All Weather driving. I'll order one.
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04-07-2010, 05:40 PM | #59 |
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yep, the same day a factory mustang beats a factory camaro in a race
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04-07-2010, 06:12 PM | #60 | |
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The Camaro still needs to have a V8 option (beyond just a low volume, high price Z28 trim level) to maintain it's character as an American muscle car. A turbo V6 can be just as fast, but that's sort of be like calling a Jaguar a British car, or calling the Mustang II a Mustang. Will the next gen Camaro be a Camaro, or will it just be a sports car that uses the name?
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04-07-2010, 06:17 PM | #61 |
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I just had an epiphany.
In 2015 Motor Trend is going to have an article stating that the camaro is too small and feels like a go kart instead of a muscle car. |
04-07-2010, 07:09 PM | #62 | |
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Muscle cars cant be compared to normal vehicle standards. They dont want to be the best performance vehicle on the market thats the sports car market. Muscle cars just aim to be the most fun cars you can own, that passion behind the V8, an engine that's bite is as mean as its bark making the car so wild and untameable that you get that sense of danger behind it that you dont get in any other car, and something you definatly cant get with any V6. Muscle cars are in a class of their own, they cant be measured up in normal car standards, normal performance or economy standards dont apply because muscle cars are meant to be that rebellious genre that screams "**** the rules!" and doesnt care about anything but how much pure fun it is to drive, all the other cares thrown to the back of your mind like economy, safety, laws, restrictions, the idea is to forget all the troubles, screw what everyone else thinks and just be yourself. And as long as that idea is preserved im confidant that the V8 will prevail, the day the muscle car succumbs to V6 engines only is the day the muscle car's spirit dies. |
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04-07-2010, 09:48 PM | #64 |
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AMEN, Vega. AMEN!
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04-07-2010, 11:03 PM | #65 |
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I dont like the sound of the V8 going away, but lets be honest I cant see them making big v8s 10 years from now Even if not by 2014-2015....I dont think we'll make it to 2020 with out a turbo v6 SS. I wish they could shed some weight & just keep making a v8 SS but I really dont see it.
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04-08-2010, 12:14 AM | #66 |
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The V8 isn't going away. GM is finishing up development of the Gen V V8 that will take V8 power and performance in line with CAFE requirements deep into the next decade.
Expect the next Generation Camaro and Mustang to be lighter and probably smaller in overall dimentions. Neither car will survive without this change. Without the success of the 5th Gen there would be no talk of a 6th Gen Camaro so much credit is due to the popularity of the current car. Alpha could have easily been a NA Caddy only platform if this Camaro didn't solidify itself into Chevy's lineup and cause GM to rethink the recently unshelved Alpha program.
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04-08-2010, 12:57 AM | #67 |
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NOOOO NO V8?
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04-08-2010, 01:05 AM | #68 |
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I like what they are doing... using the same platform for several different cars.
This means parts interchange... and aftermarket mods galore! And I KNOW they'll leave enough room for an LS1 in it... that motor is going to be built for YEARS to come... Sam |
04-08-2010, 09:47 AM | #69 |
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We all die in 2012 anyway so why worry...
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04-08-2010, 11:19 AM | #70 |
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SS should have nothing but a V8 in it. this government is ruining the last bit of fun us common folk are able to enjoy and afford !!!!!
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