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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Did you look at the dashboard design? Yikes, it’s awful.
6.2 litre engine? Seems a little big in light of today’s gas prices.
GM never stood for Good Merchandise
Ya think? I like it. The gauges down by the stick are very cool.
I just got a look at the new Malibu, the dash is very clean and well done, also with the blue and silver theme. It’s a ladie’s car though, not for me.
This is the most sensible thing GM has done in years, excepting their steady brilliance with the Corvette. Manual trannie drivers are reliable speed freaks.
I had the chance to get an Impala SS a couple of years ago, but they're FWD and auto only. Booooring, and a waste of good horsies. I got a Mustang GT instead, 5sp manual.
Who the hell really NEEDS 400 HP ? You got an autobahn in Amnesia ? Oops - I mean Amerikay .
I like the outside design.
I've had Vets and Camaros along with a couple of Porches and an original 64 and 1/2 Mustang so I am just a tad biased.
Me, me! I do!
I happen to think that the Hyundai for the wife, GM SUV and the Ford Taurus work car I have now are great cars.
Have 42,000 on the Ford and not a days problems.
The GM vehicles are excellent and would not complain.
Between the Coyote's runnin illegals across the border and long boring stretches of desert yep we have something better than an autobahn, we have I-8 with very few smokies.
I agree, the Malibu dash is very nice.
The first generation Camaro’s exterior was a dynamite design. Every production Camaro since then has been a step down.
The interior, however, was nothing special, typical late 60’s, with ugly plastic and phony chrome.
I suppose if you’re creating a retro-car, it makes sense to copy the bad parts of an old design as well as the good.
Of course, maybe they’re just scrambling to keep up with Ford. Somehow, that seems historically appropriate.
I do too. That's why the interior is such a disappointment.
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Yes 6.2 is a little big...
However,if the MSM and Democratic economy gets any worse I may need the power to out run the cops after I rob one of Hugo Chavez's 7-11’s for chips,beer and lotto money.
Maybe, but factory fuzzy dice would be the perfect touch.
Me. My 14 year old 350 hp tech is only good for so much.
” You Mr. sushiman have evidently not lived out in the desert of Southern California. “
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... ?
yeah, for some reasons detroit is taking a step backward in interior quality. I had a 1997 intrepid, its interior is very plush comparied to many new cars. And most of the bad press chrysler is getting is from their gawd awful interiors. 09 patriot has an interior redo, I plan on buying one in Nov
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.
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. ;-)
Had an 87 Camaro that I thought was pretty nice car and it handled so well in morning traffic.
Yep we are all getting a little older but somehow my generation still has an appreciation of when there was a heck of a lot more freedom in America.
Where’s the vinyl roof?
However, I have a feeling that Doc will only let me look and drool at those kinds of cars.
She says I can have anything I want as long as it has seating for her, my mother-in-law,the two kids, groceries,soccer balls, bats, toolbox and doesn’t cost much more than a Yugo.
I had a 78 Celica I would love to have back...got rid of it because it was too small for car seats, strollers, etc...
It just looks like it needs to be driven fast.
The same can be said about the Corvette and it morphing from the Stingray body the early 60's to the 1968 "SpeedRacer" design. Bigger is not better when it comes to sports cars. If GM had stuck with the smaller sized designs, or had even refined them down smaller, the Corvette would have become a real exotic and the Camero would have become America's answer to the BMW 3 Series.
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... ?
Are you a dem operative? The people buying these cars are paying for the fuel, not you. And remember, you can never have too much horsepower.
Those were nice little cars.
My father in law bought one to pull behind his motor home and it was one of the first ones in his town, it was tan with red striping.
I guess if I want beer money will just have to rob Hugo's main man in America Robert Big Carbon Footprint Kennedy.
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