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Originally Posted by Emoto
I'm not saying that your reasoning is incorrect, but I see the Ford GT as the Ford halo car. I see the ME C8 (dare I say Manta Ray?) as the new halo car to counter the Ford GT.
As to the Camaro being a parts bin car, how deeply have you dug into that? Certainly it shares a platform and an engine. Is that enough to call it "parts bin" or is there more? To my (perhaps twisted) way of thinking, the more the Camaro uses parts in common with other cars, the less expensive those parts are likely to be, so I certainly don't mind. I am just curious to what extent we can support the claim.
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Let's put it this way: what was developed for the Camaro that is unique other than the exterior/interior styling? When Chevy develops a new engine, it goes into the Corvette first. When GM's subsidiary, Delphi, develped MRC, it went into a Cadillac first, then Corvette. How about the eDiff? How about dual-mode exhaust? How about charge air cooling? I really can't think of something that GM developed and it went into a Camaro first. Perhaps there is, but I can't think of anything. Even the Gen 5's DSSV dampers were not developed by GM (they are from Multimatic), nor were the carbon-ceramic brakes. Okay, perhaps the goofy color changing lighting was developed for the Camaro first, but that is all I can think of.
This isn't anything new, car companies usually spend their R&D dollars developing new technology for thier most expensive cars first, then the tech trickles down to the lesser models.
As for the Ford GT, that is a halo car technically speaking and it was sold to customers because of the class it was desgned to race in, but it's not one that sits out front of a dealership or in the showroom to attract buyers. BUT you will see the C8 there at some point... (unless they break Corvette off of Chevy as it's own brand, like Hyndai did with Genesis).