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Originally Posted by Norm Peterson

You don't suppose GM has an agenda where stretching the truth to boost sales is seen as being a good thing for that all-important bottom-line? Taking the mfr's word for it here is no better than taking magazine road test results as unquestionably the last word in performance measurements . . . hell, probably not even that good.

Those claims are no more than advertising fluff designed to coax a slightly differente segment of the car enthusiast world into stopping by the dealership and maybe trying one out. As capable as at least a couple of Camaro trims are, that alone does not make them "sports cars" - either 'big-bore sport coupes" or "Grand Touring cars" would be much closer to the truth.

I get that GM is never going to call their Camaro a ponycar, even though that's the U.S. domestic car category it best fits into.


Methinks today's advertising people are either too young to know what a sports car really was, or they actually are old enough to know and they're flat-out taking advantage of those who don't - by any means that might work. They probably hate people like me who don't gobble up every advertising pitch like it was candy.


Norm

If that's the case, then the entire US Auto Industry is complicit. The industry uses two primary sources for vehicle classification: Wards Automotive and R.L. Polk. Both classify Camaro and Mustang as Mid-Sized Sports Cars.