Author Topic: Dam the new Camaro (Read 1790 times)

Sikboy · « **Reply #45 on:** May 08, 2006, 02:28:59 PM »

I actually like the Firebird concept Frenchy posted, but having read this thread, I feel guilty for so liking.

I now know I was wrong.

-Sik

Skuzzy · « **Reply #46 on:** May 08, 2006, 03:48:47 PM »

Dunt sweat it Sik. I like the Firebird cncept much better than the Camaro, for sure.

But the Challenger is spot on, only if they put a decent engine in it.

Sikboy · « **Reply #47 on:** May 08, 2006, 04:34:01 PM »

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Dunt sweat it Sik. I like the Firebird cncept much better than the Camaro, for sure.

But the Challenger is spot on, only if they put a decent engine in it.

I was working in a Library in 1999 when they said they were going to kill Plymouth. On the whole I wasn't bothered by the news, but there was a big part of me that was sad that there would never be another Barracuda. When the Charger came out I nearly wept again. I always prefered the fish.

-Sik

Skuzzy · « **Reply #48 on:** May 08, 2006, 04:49:49 PM »

You would have died the other night then Sik. The Wife and I went out to a restuarant in Plano, which is sort of a cruisers hangout.

There was a 69 or 70 Hemi Cuda there. Looked like it just drove off the dealership floor too. Beautiful. There was also a Cuda convertible there as well.

GtoRA2 · « **Reply #49 on:** May 08, 2006, 04:57:05 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Dunt sweat it Sik. I like the Firebird cncept much better than the Camaro, for sure.

But the Challenger is spot on, only if they put a decent engine in it.

Dont like the current Hemi or Dodge V8 line?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #50 on:** May 08, 2006, 05:11:29 PM »

Are you asking about the cars Gto? Nope, I do not really care for them. The Challenger looks good though. I have no information on what engine choices they will offer with it.

Kurt · « **Reply #51 on:** May 08, 2006, 06:39:34 PM »

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only if they put a decent engine in it.

Everything I've seen (specifically from an article in Automobile and an online article I read somewhere) says its getting the extra big hemi that goes in the Charger Daytona. I forget the displacement, but I think we're talking about 400ish horsepower. Those numbers would suggest its tuned a little higher than the Daytona

DiabloTX · « **Reply #52 on:** May 08, 2006, 06:42:06 PM »

Chrysler's problem isn't their engines. It's the other 95% of the car that is a POS. I'll never own another one again.

Sikboy · « **Reply #53 on:** May 08, 2006, 09:39:04 PM »

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You would have died the other night then Sik. The Wife and I went out to a restuarant in Plano, which is sort of a cruisers hangout.

Wife 2.0 informed me that I won't be buying a car with a bird on the hood this summer. I don't think she "gets it." Sigh.

Is there a patch I can DL somewhere?

-Sik

DiabloTX · « **Reply #54 on:** May 08, 2006, 09:57:54 PM »

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Is there a patch I can DL somewhere?

Should be ready to go in another few thousand years. Still working on it.

Kurt · « **Reply #55 on:** May 08, 2006, 10:37:54 PM »

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Chrysler's problem isn't their engines. It's the other 95% of the car that is a POS. I'll never own another one again.

I don't know when you owned your last Mopar, and I'm not going to speak for the small cars that are built by mitsubishi (a known garbage car producer) such as the stealth, and various others....

But I can tell you this.

I'm on my second Dodge Dakota and I would never even look at another light truck. Its the best and most reliable vehicle I've ever owned. And I'm 20 years into my drivers license...

And Everyone I know who has owned an American made mopar (not a mitsubishi) has been thrilled with it... These include the trucks, the new crysler 300H, Magnum, Charger etc... I'll be getting a charger when the truck is paid down more... Unless the Challenger goes to production... then I'll be on that.

bkbandit · « **Reply #56 on:** May 09, 2006, 12:59:44 AM »

my biggest problem with all the cars is the prices.

Im wit bronk, give me a straight performane car for a cheap price. If the challenger comes with a 6.1 hemi its goin to be expensive. The thing will cost prob 55 grand plus taxes and title(plus insurance), how many of u are willin to pay that. The srt charger costs about that now, unless dodge wants the challenger to go head up with the mustang it will prob have a high price tag. In my world the camaro mustang and challenger all compete for our money by upin the perfromance improveing the opitions and LOWERIN THE PRICE. If it worked in 67 it should work now.

There are 2 cars on the market that are real sleepers when it comes to performance and they cost about 20 grand or under. The chevy cobalt(the supercharged one) and the dodge srt4(turbo charged). Both of these cars run high 13 to super low 14 second quarter miles, the last 2002 camaro ran a mid 13 second quarter mile. I heard that and i was shocked, i looked it up and it checked out, a guy with a dogde posted his time. For 24 grand i should be able to run that quarter mile in a super low 13 to high 12s in a camaro or maybe a challenger bring it out.

I like them both(im not a bais chevy guy but i like the camaro better) and i hope the come out with them the same way i seen them in the auto show. I remember the charger concept car from a while back. It was a aggressively styled two door and they turned it into a dam over powered family car, its a dodge 300m(i hope they remodel it along with the gto, for the arrival of the camaro and challenger, maybe even a restyled mustang could be ready by then). I want to see a second muscle car era, alot of reving and burnouts and parkway drag races. Thats the american way:aok

Treize69 · « **Reply #57 on:** May 09, 2006, 07:46:34 PM »

Still can't hold a candle to my baby...

Mine is just like this, except it now has Rousch window lovers and spoiler. Gold Le Mans stripes will be going on after I get a Ram-Air hood installed.

I agree with a lot of you guys though, the new Challenger is a beauty- it LOOKS like a badoscar musclecar. The new Camaro is OK, but I think it falls way short.

Still much better than the POS they called the GTO though.

gofaster · « **Reply #58 on:** May 09, 2006, 10:39:22 PM »

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Oh...SNAP!

That is an example of a retro car done right.

This is an example of a retro car done wrong.

At least they chose the right year to retro-ize on the grill, but the wrong year everywhere else. They should've chosen the 1977 T/A and stuck with it bumper to bumper.

The good news is, the Solstice is getting a turbocharger in 2007. The bad news is that the Saturn Sky Redline looks better.

bkbandit · « **Reply #59 on:** May 12, 2006, 05:40:14 PM »

That black trans am isnt even a real concept, just a pics someone else scraped together. I have seen some concepts on the web done by amaterus that look real good but others that just shouldnt see the lite.

I seen that solstice at the auto show. it said 300 somethin horse out of that small engine, that goin to be a rocket with that small size. The saturn does look better(heard to believe im saying that about a saturn:lol ). Im pretty sure they will put a turbo on the saturn aswell.

That mustang u got is nice but i hope its the gt, v6 pony cars suck. Its like haveing the size of a body builder with 20 inch arms and only being able to curl 15 pounds. I like that gt 500, it supposed to have 475 horse. That sounds like tons of fun:aok