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Head designer of 2019 Camaro says...
From John Mack, the head of design for the new Camaro...
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04-10-2018, 10:55 AM | #2 |
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04-10-2018, 10:56 AM | #3 |
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A jack-o-lantern with no teeth.
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04-10-2018, 10:59 AM | #4 |
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So the base model was the original idea and the SS a after thought.
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04-10-2018, 11:01 AM | #5 |
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But why do the SS just uses 90% of the T5 bumblebee frontend? I thought this was a custom build by GM for Michael Bay, but somehow they decided this is good enough to be the new SS? Even the press thought the Bumblebee looked worse than a normal 6th gen - like here or here
The Turbo and V6 refresh looks fine, I don't get why the SS is looking totally different and worse |
04-10-2018, 11:04 AM | #6 | |
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04-10-2018, 11:07 AM | #7 |
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They need to get rid of the flow tie. Besides that it's not bad looking at all.
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04-10-2018, 11:10 AM | #8 |
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I agree that front fascia is brutal. If I saw that in my rear view mirror I would step on the gas and get away from that image. Why are we trying to copy the original anyways. Each Gen should be unique on its own. They hit it out of the ballpark with the Gen 6 in many different ways. Stick with whats popular. Love my 2017.
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04-10-2018, 11:14 AM | #9 |
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It's hideous.
Makes me love my '17 even more!! Thanks GM! |
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04-10-2018, 11:19 AM | #11 |
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he needs to find something else to do for work
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04-10-2018, 12:08 PM | #12 |
I gotta believe that the idea for using the flowtie in the crossbar came very early. Someone fell in love with that idea and they engineered around that. If more airflow was the primary goal they could have taken a fraction of an inch off the top or bottom edge of the crossbar and achieved the same and still used a solid bowtie or a flowtie in the upper grille. A solid bowtie in the crossbar existed as far back as the TF5 Bumblebee concept. They had time to go the right direction and chose not to.
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04-10-2018, 12:23 PM | #14 |
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Where does the license plate go ?
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