Camaro reborn: 700-horsepower, $427,000

CNN/Money ^ | November 11, 2005 | Peter Valdes-Dapena

[spetznaz]

If you missed your opportunity to buy a brand-new Chevrolet Camaro before General Motors stopped making them in 2002, here's your chance.

You'd better have some serious cash, though.

The reincarnation of a muscle-car era team that specialized in making high-performance Chevrolets has brought the reincarnation of the Camaro itself. This time, they're making their own Camaros from scratch with bodies designed with the help of a 22-year-old California car artist.

The look of the new Baldwin-Motion 540 Camaro SuperCoupe calls to mind the the 1969 Camaro, but this is a bigger, broader two-seat monster. The SuperCoupe is powered by a 700-horsepower V-8 engine.

In a nod to the good old days, the company lists the engine's displacement as 540 cubic inches. That's about 8.9 liters for those of you too young to remember when engine displacement was measured in cubic inches.

Even the car's price is a nod to those old English-unit days: $427,000.

Camaros with General Motors' 427-cubic-inch engine were the basis for some of the most famous cars created by the original Baldwin-Motion Performance Group.

[spetznaz]

Nice car for anyone with 427K to spend, nostalgia for the ol' days of American muscle, and lacking a penchant for exotic (and faster) European supercars like the Lamborghini Murcielago and Porsche Carrera GT (or even gorgeous American-made exotics like the Saleen S7). If you have the above 3 criteria (427K lying about, dreams of yore, and no desire for a streamlined rocket with Italian leather and a name taken from some legendary fighting bull), then this is the car for you. And with 700-horses of non-supercharged potence I'd bet it would be an extremely enjoyable ride. Zoom-zoom.

[spetznaz]

Ping.

[vger]

[martin_fierro]

Gearhead Ping

[TexasTransplant]

I could buy 2 Fords for that or 4 Corvettes any one of which would out perform it, look better and have a resale value that appreciates.

[endthematrix]

It's MOPAR or NO CAR!

[TexasTransplant]

Sorry it's Ford GT's or Corvettes yadda yadda yadda

[TheRobb7]

Race ya!!!

[RandallFlagg]

Chrysler ME 4-12:

1976 Ford Falcon XP Hardtop with Mad Max Interceptor additions:

1973 Plymouth Barracuda:

My three dream cars (But I'll never afford the half million for the Chrysler).

[endthematrix]

http://www.officialbaldwinmotion.com/product.htm

[endthematrix]

Just drop a HEMI in the minivan...

[RandallFlagg]

Heh! I'd never see my Wife again. SHE'S the one with the lead foot.

[SideoutFred]

Damn...mullet ping.

[Windsong]

Nice Photoshop job :)

[spanalot]

does it still have drum brakes and door rattles?

[bannedfromdu]

Musclecars come and go but the MUSTANG still RULES.

[endthematrix]

What's your ride?

[Army Air Corps]

Do you own a Citroen 2CV?

[jimboster]

That mullet head guy appears to have a device which emits gay gnomes.