03-17-2009, 09:11 AM | #1 |
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Complaints from the media
Did anyone else hear the complaints on the national news yesterday?? Here in Va the NBC4 had newscasters at 5:00 and 7:00 (national news) complaining that this isn't the right time for a "muscle car"...........A-Holes!!! They were saying " What was GM thinking"........................although they did mention the excellent mileage for the V6.
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03-17-2009, 09:22 AM | #2 |
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I didn't hear that, but I did hear the reporter on the 6pm news say: "...Chevy is offering the Camaro with a V6, a V6? V6 in a muscle car?..." He did add an exclamation point when he read that it got 29MPG.
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03-17-2009, 09:36 AM | #3 |
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so many things wrong with that statement...
GM started building this vehicle over 3 years ago. BEFORE the credit crunch, BEFORE the insane gas prices. The mustang was selling like hotcakes, why not build a competitor? Also, you can't really call 29mpgs bad timing. Sounds like the media, as with many people, are fixated on the buzz phrase "muscle car", as in gas guzzler. If they pulled their heads out of their asses, they'd see this car gets better mileage than many mid sized sedans that used to be praised for their economy. idiots.
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03-17-2009, 09:39 AM | #4 |
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I agree. I saw three separate newscasts.........and each had less than a minute about the Camaro. They all started negative.....showed the Yellow and Red V6's. and ended with the gas mileage of the car. But again, couldnt say anything positive. And man did the cars look good in High Definition rolling down the street. Too bad they couldnt have run over a reporter of two!!!
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03-17-2009, 10:02 AM | #6 |
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Well - we'll have leave it to GM to advertise Camaro as a more responsible car than the media has and really push that truly great mileage from the V6s (and V8s for that matter). It's better than the little 2.5L I-5 in my Jetta
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03-17-2009, 10:12 AM | #7 |
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The SS auto gets roughly the same mileage as the Honda Accord coupe (manual) and Mazda Speed3. It beats the Mitsubishi Evo. Oh and by the way, it has at least 100 more hp than any of those and weighs a couple hundred pounds more. I wish reporters would actually do some research, all they've gotta do is go to www.fueleconomy.gov and compare some cars.
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If you want to find the dumbest people in town, go look for tv stations.
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03-17-2009, 12:13 PM | #9 |
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Now it makes sense why GM is trying not to market the 5th gen as a muscle car and putting a big push on the six cylinder.
Funny how the media hasn't said the same about the challenger even though Dodge is in the same boat as GM.
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14K pre-orders can't be wrong
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Not to turn this into a political thread, but the mainstream media is very liberal, IMO, and would love nothing better than for us to be driving Toyota Prious's
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it was funny, CNBC went crazy to over the news that GM is releasing the Camaro.
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I think people have forgotten the Pursuit of Happyness part.
Hey as far I am concerned the Star called the Sun that's orbiting a supermassive black hole will swell up and cook the Earth. So I am gonna burn as much gasoline it does not matter we are all dead in the future anyway at least this rock we are sitting on is. /end rant against enviro wusses. P.S. BTW This stuff always reminds me of one time I laughed so hard I could not stop crying at a stoplight cause this brand new black Prius came up behind me and the lady was giving me ugly "planet killer" looks cause my vette was shaking her whole POS electric car. On the radio at the same exact time Rush Limbaugh was ranting about gas and oil and it was the cherry on top of the cake. Also I had just seen the south park Prius episode. |
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