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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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.
Thats really great gas mileage.
“NOBODY needs 400hp .”
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need “ Karl Marx.
Are you a Marxist?
“Who the hell really NEEDS 400 HP ?”
Good acceleration is important to safety like good braking. And you might be carrying children in your car. So the question I would ask you is, why don’t you care about children?
I am on the pre-order list for one at my local Chevy dealer but I am having second thoughts, that dash is REALLY ugly, it would be a shame to have to yank it out and build my own but I would do it, its freakin terrible and I used to build show cars.
“Are you a Marxist?”
Clearly he’s a communist who doesn’t care about children.
We have to remember that the guys designing these muscle cars don't have the same feel for muscle cars as did Carol Shelby.
And just look what they did the the T-Bird!
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