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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 different 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
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I think you hit the nail on the head with that one. But what do I know, I have a slow 5th Gen SS and can't post in the 6th Gen section because I don't own one.
