[Shotimes] OT New Camaro just slightly retro

[Ian Fisher]

http://www.camaroz28.com/

Click the main pic for more pictures.

It seems to have multi piston brake calipers but as a
show car that doesn't mean much. Doesn't the GTO have
an IRS? Isn't this thing supposed to share that
platform?

I'm not big on this retro thing either. These cars are
way to big and heavy. I'll take an EVO.

My dad also had a 69 Z28 that he sold before I was
born. They were cool for their day but I don't think
much of this "take a step back in time and technology"
bug that has hit Detroit.

Ian

--- van Oss <vanOss@centurytel.net> wrote:

> The first car I ever bought was a '69 Camaro.  I'm
> intrigued.
> VO
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Nunnally" <marknunnally@JoiMail.com>
> To: "SHOtimes" <shotimes@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT New Camaro just slightly
> retro
> 
> 
> > The Vette V8 and 6-speed are of course included. 
> The car is based off
> > the next generation Monero from Australia as will
> be the 2008 GTO.
> > I will need to see better pictures, but I don't
> think I will be a target
> > buyer for the new Camaro, but I have no doubt it
> should sell well, if
> > the economy doesn't go to hell in the next couple
> years.
> 
> Ya think?  It sounds just like the old car formula,
> dumbed down version of
> the vette' with the hand me down vette drivetrain
> stuff, and it sold like a
> turd (unless I am mistaken why they killed it?) 
> IIRC the mustang outsold it
> and the firebird combined by a healthy margin.  What
> would make it different
> this time around?
> 
> I'm as much a car/go fast freak as anybody, but if I
> was shopping for a new
> sports coupe, none of these "retro" pony/muscle cars
> would be even close to
> the top of the list! 3700 - 4100 lb curb weights,
> crappy brakes, and live
> rear axles?  Come on.
> 
> mark
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