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Originally Posted by ULTRAZLS1
In another 5 years. Is this everyone's first rodeo or what?
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Yeah, this might not be so obvious to some folks. Remember the 5th gen Mustang effectively made a 10 year run from 2005 - 2014. The 5th gen Camaro launched in 2010, the same year Mustang had its mid-cycle design refresh.
Technically, if Chevy was keeping pace, they should have done their mid-cycle design refresh in 2015. Except they didn't. The mid-cycle refresh was pushed ahead to 2014, and even then, with a completely new car for the 2016 model year, that "mid-cycle" refresh is going to end up more like a "2/3-cycle" refresh. :P
IMO, they should have kept the 2010's styling until the 2015 model year without any changes and sales would have been fine. It's only because of the 2014 "2/3-cycle" refresh that people are now complaining there aren't radical enough design changes for 2016. The 2014 refresh was supposed to be the precursor to the 6th gen in style, but only in style, not function or performance. No offense to any owners, but this is why I consider it the "bastard" Camaro in a sense. It wasn't really necessary.
The 6th gen Camaro is going to be a real bang for the buck. With magnetic ride on the SS trim and the Stingray's LT1 under the hood, this is going to be a pretty good car for the price point. Well, not "pretty" good, actually *very* good.