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Originally Posted by Mezzy
I never cared for the new design. It's not based on the F body platform which I've come to love. Being built off an Australian design just doesnt say USA muscle to me. It's like GM is saying they really never wanted to design a new camaro. They just used an existing platform and raided the parts bin. I think the 5 gen front looks great, while the back looks like a bad attempt at a retro look of a 67 or 68. Just plain ugly back there. I love the 4 th gen look the best by far. They should continue where that left off. Anyway, this thread is way off topic. Isn't it about the car being made in the good ol U.S. of A.? Not if a rustang is cheaper than a maro,lol .
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Bonzo tore the fbody argument apart, but let me pee in your corn flakes on your "doesn't say American muscle".
First off, Australia has a longer and stronger history of muscle cars than American has. Think of Australia as America if the 70's didn't happen. Ford, GM(Holden), Nissan all have rear-drive, V8 powered cars, including coupes, sedans, wagons, and utes. America? Home of the pick up truck and the Camry.
As for not-American-made, the Challenger would be based on a modified version of an old Mercedes chassis and the Mustang can trace its origins of development from a joint-venture with Jag.
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Originally Posted by NastyEllEssWon
wouldve been just as easy to toss the mid east lumina ss front end on it and call it a chevy product. they chose not to because it would easily outshine the camaro. this is pretty obvious  |
Ahhhhhhhh....yeah. We will see how Camaro's sales dip when the SS gets here I guess.
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Originally Posted by Mezzy
All I meant was I prefer what's considered to be a F body car over the new design that's not.
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what's considered an F-car? Realize that a 67 Camaro has very little in common with a 77 Camaro, not to mention an 87 or 97? If you want to talk about design, that gets even worse! No generation Camaro looks like the previous Camaro. If ANY generation looks like an "fbody car", it's the current one.
If you don't like it, that's okay and I understand. But your logic is flawed.
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Originally Posted by WildBillyT
It's just a designation.
"X-body" meant a 396/375 Nova SS at one point, and a Chevy Citation at another.
"A-body" meant a 454 LS-6 Chevelle SS, and later on an a 4 cyl FWD Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera.
The F platform was laughably dated at the end. You know that "cat hump" in the passenger floor? It was put there in 1974, and stopped being useful well before 2002.
If that's not a bad enough example, look at everything that 4th and 3rd gens can share. Do you really think it's acceptable for two cars, seperated by 20 years, to share the same parts?
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As a third gen owner, I think it's perfectly acceptable.
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Originally Posted by Squirrel
oh... but no car had a 10 year warranty then, and if it did make a real 400+ hp, it probably didnt get 20 mpg**
**afaik, i wasnt alive then
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That's what he was saying. We are living in the best time to own a performance car in the history of the automobile. There is a 662hp Mustang that doesn't have a gas-guzzler tax on it, it didn't come from some high-end tuner shop, and it has a warranty.
Life is good my friends.