hello all. i just joined today. i must say that i have never owned a camaro of any year. but have had 2 corvettes,2 trans-ams, 1 formula,and 4 stangs.
i hate the new mustangs. way to heavy. and the gt500 is a joke with 500 h/p and a weight of 3900 lbs. please!!!!!!!!!! a base vette w/400 h/p and 3150 weight would prolly smoke the gt 500 b/c of the 800lbs of weight it gives up.
just to put my 2cents on this whole pricing thing. i have been doing extensive research on this car as i am sure all of u have too.
and i read that chevy was goin to price the z28 or whatever to 200.00 over the base price of the stang gt. so rest assured that a 400 h/p camaro will not msrp over 28k. the new base vette for 08 is going to have the now 500 h/p motor found in the z06. the 08 z07 is going to be a 7.0 lit supercharged engine w/ an est 700 h/p. so the now price of a base corvette being 40,500 will prolly jump up to about 45-48k and the z07 will be 65-75k,if not more. i have read all this just in the past 10 days. the info is out there.
GM is well aware that the 4th gen camaro sales were 2to 1. thats for every 2 mustangs sold,1 camaro was sold. they don't want this to be the case again. if they could build it to be competitive than they would have never gotten the go-ahead. poor sale was the only reason GM axed it in the first place.
as far as all this talk about a gazillion engine options,i highly dought it. maybe ,and i mean maybe 2 v6's and 2 v8's. one being a supercharged. so the base v8 will have 400 h/p and th s/c if they even make one will have 450 to 475. they will not make a 500 s/c to compete with the base vette of that year for 15-20k cheaper. there is no way they will shoot them selves in the foot like that.
you also have to remember that the z platform they are building that baby on has been around for what? 5-7yrs. its allready tooled for the most part. they are going to use most of the suspension from the CTS-V so again costs will be down.
they also said that they will be putting out enough 1st year models so we won't have the problems that those poor gt-500 bastards are having. i think it was over 30k units in the first 6mos or 1st year,i can't remember. so that should help price fvckin out alot.
GMhas learned from their mistakes. so don't worry guys. we will all have this AWESOME new camaro. i can't wait.
thanks for reading and i'm sorry it was so long. and i'm sorry if i pissed any of u off. i'm just trying to shed some light.
jay.
