50th Design: Thoughts from Adam Barry
 

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It was an honor to be the lead exterior designer of this historic Camaro. The goal of the exterior design was to project more of a GT, or high end sport look, rather than a bad boy race car. To this end we used desaturated colors in selective spots, added performance attributes in the frt splitter and high flow grills, and accented the brakes calipers. The all new specific wheels were designed to project motion, and the open spoke design allows you to see the brakes. Can't wait to see one on the road very soon.

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Is there an actual performance gain from the grill, or is it just cosmetic? This is the first time Ive seen it referred to as a "performance attribute"

Maybe they consider a cosmetic enhancement that doesn't detract from performance to be a "performance attribute"?

"To this end we used desaturated colors in selective spots...., "


Thank goodness for that. I was afraid they'd use poly-unsaturated complex carbo-hydrated colors....

Adam is a talented cat, as a designer myself, I have always respected his work within the GM confines. The 6th gen is his best yet.
Car looks good.

Sorry, but they dropped the ball on the 50th. They should have done more, this is no better than the 45th edition...too bad.

I have to agree they should have waited and made the jump to the Gen 6 as part of the 50th. Done the z28 and ZL1 all for the 50th in one big Shot.

Does it come with Beats by DRE audio, and a fifty cent CD???

45th is paid off now. Do I just collect anniversary editions from here on out? I love the design. Not sure what folks expect from these special editions.

Agree. These special editions have always been appearance packages. Maybe they'll offer it on multiple trim levels like they did on the Corvette centennial edition.

I had a 1976 Trans Am 50th (Y82) for a long time but am not interested in this anymore. The cars are special enough

It's available as a 2LT, and 2SS. The interior has a unique design to it that requires different seat covers, etc.

I don't think it's a performance enhancement grill. Unless it was a little deeper, something like what the Nissan GT-R NISMO has

I like that the designers are going for a high end sports car look, but in my opinion the Gen 6 Camaro looks more boy racer than ever before. I have heard others say it looks like a high school kids car and I kind of agree. Don't get me wrong I will probably buy a ZL1 or 1LE, but some of the optional stripes, color combinations, wheels and rear spoiler combined with turbo charged 4 cylinder undermine efforts gain an upscale image. I get it that Chevrolet is trying to appeal to the broadest market looking to purchase a $25-65,000 sports car, but its hard to compare Camaro to BMW, Audi and Porsche (other than performance) when such low end models are commonplace on the road.

50,000,000 million dollars for this version. Calling it now

It's got what plants crave.

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Ok we've seen the exterior enough at this point. What about the interior? No pics have been seen on that yet and we're in NYAS time now. Come on.... :frown:

I have to agree, for the big 50th milestone, they should have gone many extra miles. Provide extra value and make it extra special.

Since the released photo does say "Preproduction model shown. Actual production model may vary. Available Summer 2016" maybe GM will monitor this forum, listen to the feedback (good and not so good), and make ANY necessary adjustments before the FINAL PRODUCTION vehicle gets released.

Underwhelming, for sure. I'm beginning to wonder how healthy it's going to be for Chevy and their dealers having all these low volume Camaro SKUs. People better get their HO V8s SOON because we know they will be going away.

Haven't we seen enough " special editions" that have no gain in performance?

You'll very rarely, if ever, see a "special edition" that upgrades performance in any way. Too expensive for the manufacturer to make sense of it, which means it'll be too expensive for us to justify buying.

30th anniversary LT4 SS .
2013 Laguna Seca Mustang.
C6 Grand Sport Corvette .

They can be done and they should be done . Putting 21" wheels on a car and naming it after a toy doesn't make it special either .

In your opinion...with respect.

To be clear though, the Boss Laguna Seca and the C6 Grand Sport weren't "special editions". The Corvette was a regular production model, and the Mustang was a limited-number regular production model. Each sold thousands and were priced accordingly.

All 2017s will actually be a 50th Anniversary car....

Option it how you want and then admire the "Fifty" on the steering wheel...Problem solved!