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Originally Posted by KarFan

I've heard this a few times now. I'm not blaming the Camaro deciples, other enthusiasts or those in focus groups but I would be very curious as how this question about visibility was posed to them. Better sightlines should be seen as a positive especially on a sports coupe and certainly after the 5th Gen it should be seen as an area in need of improvement.
However, GM has stuck to this story that they were told not to change the compromised visibility. But If thy asked "Camaro owners" if visibility needed to be improved but that it would detract from the styling of the car then I could see people not wanting that.
But I don't think improving sightlines and lowering the belt line of the car would have detracted from the overall style of the car.

But as we have seen in this thread some people take the compromised sightlines as some kind of an attack on the car and maybe to a lesser extent themselves which shouldn't be viewed that way. So maybe they didn't get honest answers.

The way I understand it, is that GM had several designs that increased visibility, but those changed were rejected by focus groups when presented as they didn't really look like a Camaro. So it's not that they were told not to change the visibility, but rather they were unable to majorly change the visibility without drastically altering the overall look of the vehicle.