Dam the new Camaro

[Ripsnort]

Originally posted by bkbandit
A v6 muscle car really doesnt serve a purpose.  

I tried to convince my wife of this very concept when she bought her '05 convertible last July.  She didn't want to wait (I waited patiently 3 months for my car from Germany!) THe woman wanted a pony car and wanted it NOW!

Well, now I have to tell you...for a V6, that engine is a peppy little bastige. Ford spend millions in R&D trying to reproduce the sound of both the small block and big block engines from the 60's I'm told...they nailed this V6, when you get on it, it sounds just like a 289 small block with duel exhausts.

Now, the wife doesn't care about "muscle", but the car's lines and the convertible really appeal to her, and that's what its about after all, if YOU like it, then you should buy it.  Men can't enforce their opinion about muscle in cars on women, because they're from venus and we're from Mars.

Compared to european/asian model suspensions, the Ford Mustang SUCKS in both the stock GT and V6.  Nothing corners like a BMW, Porsche and about 1/2 dozen other imports.  Mustang is great to go in a straight line, fast. But I prefer cornering fast personally. This won't stop me from looking at a GT though, I have a friend that has an '06 GT that he wants to unload, it has every option except the upgraded wheels, and he may sell it to me for $25k since he's on a 07' Shelby Cobra waitlist.

[Brenjen]

I loved my 1979 Z-28 camaro. It was a great car, it was sad that the pontiac was 99% the same, seems sort of stupid for GM to have done that but I don't design or sell automobiles so i may be missing their motivation.

On a side note, v-6 muscle cars of the 80's, thinking specifically of the camaro & the firebird were great to pick up used with a smoker under the hood, we used to get them for as little as a couple hundred bucks. Then you dump a junkyard v-8 into it & go win 1/4 mile street races. The gear & tranny ratios were so low to develop enough torque out of the v-6's of the day that even a crappy 250 h.p. v-8 out of a junk yard wreck could win most of the time. It only took a few hours of work & you could have fun for a few weeks then sell it & start over.

 It gave us something to do.