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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28
I could not disagree with you more.
While I agree with you onthe Challenger and Mustang, as both are very slab sided and no not have a lot of body lines or agressiveness to them outside of thier faces, the Camaro has all that and more!
Secondly, dulled down from the production model? Are you looking at the same car?
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No disrespect Al, but are YOU looking at the same car?! To me it's all of the MANY subtle differences that add up and subtract from the car's overall look. Let's go through the list, and this is just from the angles we can see in these 2 pics...the rear is, from what I remember a whole different bag of crap next to the concept...
-Height = HUUUUGE DIFFERENCE, it was expected to an extent but still...
-fender flares are WAY less pronounced on the production model
-every single body line on the concept was either dulled down or deleted for production
-the front grill is larger, goofier, and much less aggressive than the concept
-no wicked halo headlights
-no ventilated brake ducts like the lower front lip of the concept
-wheels are like HALF the size of the concept...fine on a V6, but the SS is top shelf, it should have really sick wheels
-overall length of the car is shorter than the concept
-flare on the bottom of the body before the rear wheel is dulled down
-NO roof crease what-so-ever, which was stupid. They did after all raise the height of it, so why not keep the crease? It looked badass.
-top of the front bumper is much more rounded off and less aggressive than the sharper, more blunt one of the concept
-side view mirrors are bigger than the concept...but we won't even count that because the concept's mirrors are small as hell.
So even if I forget that one thing, it's a different car. Like I said, they took the overall design and tamed it up for public consumption. It's like a bloated version of the concept. YES, it's "basically" the sameonly not.
If you hand me the keys to the concept, it'd stay in my garage FOREVER. Hand me the keys to the production model and I'd sell it in a week to get a 4th gen.
And I don't know how anyone could say the 98-02 4th gen's weren't some of the baddest ass looking cars on the planet.
As for the Chrysler thing, you say tomato I say tomotto. The Chrysler concorde with similar headlights came out the same year as the revised 4th gen camaro, so is it the camaro that looks like the Chrysler, or vice versa.
Say what you will but if you see an 98-02 SS or WS6 in your rear view, you tend to pee a little. With this new camaro...I don't even think it'd raise the hairs on the back of my neck. It's a DUD.
And like I said, this is just my opinion...only sales numbers will tell for sure. Wait until the initial excitement dies down and then we'll see where Camaro's future is in a few years...