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I would have loved to have seen the Camaro refresh attempt to design the doors to lower the sill point, while still being integrated well with the fender lines and a redesigned dash to lower the height of the instrument binnacle to create an illusion of a lower cowl without needing to re-engineer the major hardpoints of the structure...but, alas, that would probably require costly side and front impact testing to make sure the doors didn't weaken in the process, and the new dash layout was still crash-worthy. |
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02-08-2018, 07:35 AM | #562 | |
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But you are definitely correct that anything that requires bending metal is usually shied away from during mid-cycles UNLESS there are also new powertrain options. At GM we called those "Mid-Cyle with Powertrain (creative, right?) and they could cost almost as much as a major upgrade, depending on what was being done to the powertrain.
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02-08-2018, 08:18 PM | #563 | |
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02-12-2018, 06:23 AM | #564 |
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02-12-2018, 06:31 AM | #565 |
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2019 refresh or Gen 7 ?
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Is it just me or does it look like they got rid of the plasti-chrome around the instrument binacle? Looks more like a gunmetal grey (I wish they would do this).
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02-12-2018, 08:13 AM | #568 |
I used to be Dragoneye...
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02-12-2018, 12:07 PM | #569 |
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02-12-2018, 12:36 PM | #570 |
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This.
I remember it from a long while back.
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02-12-2018, 07:21 PM | #571 |
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02-12-2018, 10:48 PM | #572 | |
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Regardless, the 6th gen interior is far superior to anything Chevy offered in a Camaro previously. When all the other American car companies stepped up their game, Chevy was last in line. That is one of the main reasons I wasn't even considering a Camaro. I was shocked at how nice it was when i saw it in person given how low my expectations were. I do wish my gauge panel was centered in the dash though and it didn't have a gap on the left side... lol |
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02-12-2018, 11:09 PM | #573 | |
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02-13-2018, 08:14 PM | #574 |
Hail to the King baby!
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Go look at the Kia (yep Kia) Stinger. Real metal not fake painted plastic. Starts in the low 30s and TOPS OUT at $52,000. That interior is very nice and it's pretty much in the Camaro price range.
You guys are letting GM off the hook if you think it's ok to have a $40,000 plus Camaro with low rent plastic and trim. This has been GM's problem for years. At mid to upper 20's, the interior on the Camaro is really pretty good. For a $40,000 and up car? Not so much. GM has done that for years, put an interior that for the base car price point is pretty solid but then option the car up to, in the case of the Camaro, $70,000 and it really is far from competitive. Yes, the performance is a bargain. But if you pay $70,000 for a car you really aught to be able to expect a $70,000 interior. And that means E-class Mercedes......er ooops GM doesn't know how to do that in a Cadillac. How about at least a Cadillac then, lol. I dearly remember my Saturn Sky Redline. For the base $19,000 car it was awesome. But the Redline stickered at $36,000. For $3,000 more you could get an Audi TT that had a wonderful interior. The Saturn? Hard plastic everywhere with a touch of piano black to differentiate it from the Pontiac. For the most part, I really loved that car and wish I still had it. But it's an example of how GM does interiors for the base price point but doesn't consider the top end of the line.
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