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Originally Posted by sstoronto
For what it's worth, I'm not sold on the "it's not different enough from the 5th Gen" arguement.
Look at the Porsche 911, or the VW Golf. I can barely tell a new Golf from one 2 generations ago....
With that argument, the Challenger should never have beat the 6gen, in sales as the 15-up version is not that much different from the 08-14 car, from a casual glance.
I think it's $ price and awareness of the fact that it's a new/revised car.
They need to tout the LT1, the chassis and the performance IN THEIR ADS (that are lacking).
It won't solve everything, but some good ol' advertising would be a start......I have yet to see a TV ad.
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I would say that cars like the 911 and even Challenger have a "look" to them. Its apart of their identity. Looking almost exactly the same as older versions of themselves is a selling point for them. For Camaro it seems to be a detriment.
Camaro has never really had a set design
DNA. It's always seemed to have made substantial design changes from gen to gen. Perhaps this change up is what people expect from Camaro now. So a subtle evolutionary change, like the one seen from gen 5 to gen 6, can lead to the customer base not realizing this is more than just an MCE.