2014 Camaro Revealed Ahead of NY Autoshow Debut Tomorrow!

[2cnd chance]

Originally Posted by tramtwo

angrybird telling US to calm down!!

my thoughts exactly!!!

[jrohan07]

Reports are saying two camaros will be revealed...

[Jeff_SS]

Glad I was right.

[Kahdir]

Originally Posted by Goo

yes... but not this

This is an example when new ownership thinks they know the customer better then the core group of engineers & designers.

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Originally Posted by NovaDaddy

Agreed!!! A talk show like "Live" is not the right place to reveal the new Camaro or Corvette!!

Who even watches that show??? Little old ladies?

[Edge.128]

Originally Posted by Doc

To me this just looks off-balanced. It looks like 4 different committees were involved in the design. One for the hood, one for the front grille, one for the front fog lights, and one for the lower grille which looks like they had the most enthusiasm with "let's go BIG or GO HOME!!!".

I spent untold hours going over the 2010 Camaro design and it was a masterpiece of a single designer's vision of not only a Camaro, but a muscle car... period. It looked and still looks like an untamed, wild jungle cat; powerful, muscular, ready to run.

This "refresh" looks like a domesticated house cat; related to it's powerful jungle cousin, but tamed.

If they were going to do this I really wish they'd paid more attention to balancing the details the way they did with the first car.

Here's a snap of what they did:
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Here's what I would have liked to have seen:
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Upper grille opening a bit taller, lower grille not quite as tall, fog light openings blended to look like they were part of the overall design so the height matches the lower grill, slightly less severe point at the outside edge of the area outside of the headlights.

I'm not crazy about the hood; the bulge is too wide and "soft" looking and the heat extractor looks completely out-of-place there. The extractor looks like a rough, wild, "we're running in the jungle and need to extract heat NOW" kind of extractor stuck onto a domestic house cat that clearly doesn't need it. To me that's the epitome of the ricer look; powerful, race performance objects stuck on a low-power domestic street car. It looks out-of-place.

Now that I've said it I think that's what bothers me the most about this refresh... the front just doesn't look powerful anymore. I REALLY hope this isn't the direction the 6th gen is going in.

I feel for the Camaro team though... they did such an outstanding job of the 5th gen that trying to follow that has to be a nearly impossible task. This refresh is okay... just not great.

It is pretty amazing how such little changes improve it so much. good eye Doc.

[2cnd chance]

Originally Posted by Norm Peterson

So that's where the Aztec's design crew went . . .



Norm

[Mikes SS]

well one of the two being revealed better have at least 500 hp so they can try to cater to at least half of those that are in disarray with this horrible refresh!

[lbls1]

Maybe the coupe and convertible

[Raptor3141]

Originally Posted by 2cnd chance

Who even watches that show??? Little old ladies?

My wife LOL!!

I walked through the living room and noticed a covered car sitting on the stage. Once I found out what was going on, I fired up my capture card and got the pics.

First time the card has been really useful since I wasted money on it. LMAO

[Mikes SS]

and now to photoshop the back...if that helps..

[Angrybird 12]

Originally Posted by jklipan

Now that's funny!!!

What is the unit in front of the rear view mirror? What does that do?

That's the remote start module.

[lbls1]

the coinslot is startin' to grow on me.....little bugger

[Raptor3141]

Originally Posted by Mikes SS

and now to photoshop the back...if that helps..

That's an idea. Photoshop the back, print it on a plotter and tape it to the back of the car. Problem solved!