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Old 01-11-2016, 11:15 AM   #21
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Drives: 1970 Vette,16 1SS, 07 Ford Taurus
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Saint Peters, MO
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Originally Posted by FlightSoftware View Post
Little story while we wait.

I've never really liked camaros. Nothing wrong with 'em, and they were cool in the 80's, but I've always like corvettes. Really didn't like the 5th gen (sorry, nothing personal, just didn't like it), and hadn't planned on buying a camaro until:

Take my '06 mustang to the dealer for service. Missing so bad I had to have it towed. Dealer informs me the engine is shot and I need a new one. $6500 on a car worth less than $3000. Have car towed to independent mechanic. He can't find anything really wrong, other than it needs the 100k mile stuff done (new plugs, wires, etc). Car's working again. Ford pissed me off, and after 10 years I need a new car anyway, so I start doing some research.

THAT's when I see the '16 camaro. It's like a night and day difference. Where the 5th gen looked unfinished, crude, the update looks refined, upscale, modern. Much, much better. So I start reading reviews. The -only- bad thing has consistently been the visibility ( and even that's not 100%. It ranges from "abysmal" to "if you're used to sports cars, this is nothing to worry about".) All of the reviews talk about the interior, and the handling. Man... everyone raves about how great the handling is. And to me, that's more important than the raw horsepower / torque (those are important too, just don't want to be pushing a sled around).

I've been driving the mustang almost 10 years to the day. Except for the latest problem, it's been very reliable and I'm happy. If the dealer hadn't lied to me about the engine, I probably would have traded up to a new mustang.

Funny how life works. Early december, I had no idea the Camaro had been updated, didn't want one. Now I have one on order and am looking forward to meeting Becky.
I agree with you about the 5th gen Camaro SS not to my liking of my taste visually. The "Z"s looked a little better than the 5th gen SS but still couldn't buy one. I looked at 2015 SS's before I ordered my 16 because you can find them all over Autotrader for low $30's which is about 10k cheaper than the 16 SS that I ordered. So I thought would I rather have a 15 SS Supercharged or a 16 SS. I chose a 16 SS just based on the looks and the color I wanted. I couldn't decide on what color 15 I would have bought because not really a fan of any of the colors. I don't think I could have lived with the looks of the 15 everyday either. Next, I started looking at Mustangs due to my stepfather working at a Ford dealership but the performance difference in 2016 Camaro SS vs a 2016 Mustang GT was too much of a gap to consider the Mustang unless the Mustang cost about $25000 which it doesn't.

I'm also a Corvette guy. So Welcome to the club Flight. It's going to be a fun one.
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