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.
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.