Posted on 07/28/2008 3:09:48 AM PDT by OKIEDOC
When unveiling new performance models, car companies usually boast about horsepower, engine size and expected zero-to-60 times. But when General Motors unveiled the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro Monday afternoon, it was the car's fuel economy numbers that were front and center.
It's the return of a once-popular model that has been out of production since the 2002 model year. V6 versions, which GM expects will be the biggest sellers, are expected to get 26 miles per gallon on the highway. That's about the same as a V6 Ford Mustang, while boasting the same horsepower output as a V8 Mustang.
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2008/autos/0807/gallery.2010_chevrolet_camaro/index.html
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It's not a question of need; it is a question of want. There are probably very few people that need more than 100 hp. But 422 hp cars are more fun to drive, so we buy those instead of Geo Metros.
I think it’s ugly. Looks like a cross between a mustang and those boxy things Dodge has been putting out.
I think she is a beautiful muscle car.
BTW What do you think is a good looking car or cars?
Funny, my 5.7ltr V8 T/A with 6spd manual gets 27 on the highway. Turning around 1500 RPM @ 65PMH in 6th.
Nobody needs a car at all you can just take public transport, but it's a matter of consumer choice. You can chose to buy a little $hitbox, no car at all, a SUV, a pickup truck, or a viper. It's your money and you can spend it how you wish (or at least until tha @$$holes in the government manage to regulate that aspect of your life as well). SO frankly good buddy most of us don't give a rat's a$$ about what you think people need. It's what the people who are deciding what to spend their money on WANT, not your idea of what they need.
Then by all means, don’t buy one. Thats one more for the rest of us. Thank you!
Hemi - mmmmmmm
Don’t do that. 7-11 stopped buying gas from Venezuela two years ago.
Any of the muscle cars of the late 60’s to early 70”. I love my old 69 Charger RT 440.
NOBODY needs 400hp . Waste of money not to mention waste of gasoline . Are these cars ONLY going to be sold to folks who drive in the desert of SoCal ??? Hmmmm... ?
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You Mr. Sushiman must have been the guy or gal who wore the lamp shade at frat parties.
It's OK by me if GM only sells in the desert.
Lots of people will travel miles to buy American and not some four cylinder rice burner with a big round loud exhaust to impress the illegal's gal South of the border.
I always thought that in America we had freedom of choice as to what size of engine we had in our car not like some foreign countries and a few States.
I guess thats why when I lived in South America, Toyota's and Nissan's were painted yellow with a little lighted sign saying Taxi on top and those citizens that could drove American made vehicles.
Ask anyone from Cuba if 57 Chevys don't last a lifetime, well 51 years and still going.
I notice that it still has the old key in the ignition rather than the way the ‘vett does it with the key in your pocket. (But WHY did they show the thing with an automatic?)
The 2002 Camaro was pretty.
I haven’t seen too many that really caught my eye lately...most of them are either same-old, same-old or eye catching because they are ugly.
Maybe it’s because I’m getting old. ;-)
Well, it’s obviously not the final version, so you still have hope.
My 5.7 liter LT1 ’94 Camaro got 28 MPG highway. That’s cruising at 75 with a/c on. It wasn’t worth much city wise though.
I know you didn't specifically ask me, but here are two I think look great
Although I like the snake skin green in the Viper better than the red.
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