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04-01-2008, 11:59 PM
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F body or Z body?
What will we call this Camaro? An F-body or a Zeta body?
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04-02-2008, 12:15 AM
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F body FTW
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04-02-2008, 12:22 AM
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IS IT 2009 YET???
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How about HARD BODY! Because she's sexy as Hell!!!!
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04-02-2008, 12:30 AM
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 or just "sexy"I always had the question, are all camaro and firebirds called f-bodys or is it just the 4th gens? I've also remember hearing A-body or something. Also how is Zeta pronounced? Like "Zayta" or like "Zeeta".
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04-02-2008, 12:58 AM
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as far as I know... and could be wrong... 3rd gen and up are f-bodies...
not tooo sure about the 2nd gen... |
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04-02-2008, 01:00 AM
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but I guess we will be callin them Z-bodies from now on...
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04-02-2008, 01:08 AM
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All camaros and firebirds have been on an F body platform, dating back to the 60s. That is, until 2006. And I have taken to calling GM vehicles by their greek letter. Zetas, Lamdas, etc. I don't attach -body with their new ones
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04-02-2008, 01:14 AM
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Camaro gens 1-4 were on F Bodies. The A Bodies were the Chevelle, Cutlass, etc. GM has done away with the [letter]-body naming system and now uses Greek numbers. The last of the old system are the W bodies (Impala, etc) and Y bodies (Corvette, XLR) So even Z-body is inaccurate. It is a Zeta platform vehicle, but given that there is no Firebird, it probably makes the most sense to call it a Camaro.
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04-02-2008, 01:22 AM
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Ahhh yes, but the Pontiac G8 and Vauxhall VXR8 are Zeta also...
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04-02-2008, 05:16 AM
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I'll just call it my 5th gen.
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04-02-2008, 07:33 AM
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I used to be Dragoneye...
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Just Camaro.
There are too many other cars riding on Zeta to call it a "Z" body, imo. It's not exclusive, like the F-body platform was...
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04-02-2008, 08:09 AM
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Z/28 or Bust!
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04-02-2008, 08:10 AM
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I'll call it, "AWESOME"!
 I think the most used reference may be "5th Gen." 
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04-02-2008, 09:09 AM
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They could still be "F" cars even while being on the Zeta architecture. GM uses two digits of the VIN to designate the specific model of the car.
For instance, a Zeta Pontiac G8 sedan is an ER model, and the GT is an EC. 6G2ER57718L132276 - G8 Sedan 6G2EC57Y88L988846 - G8 GT There's literally 23 variants on the Cadillac D car platform (CTS and STS). The actual architecture is Sigma though. 1G6DS57V180145637 - CTS DI V6 They could just as easily reformat the model field in the VIN to use Fx for various Camaro models.
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