[sen10l]

From experience, most people don't really understand why they like something. They just "like it". But there are reasons for why you like something, if you take the time to analyze yourself.

Why the Camaro is the "best" to me (in order):
1) no soft design elements. Full of hard aggressive and masculine lines (most cars except super cars look feminine)
2) right combination of power, handling and performance (I want a car that exceeds my driving ability)
3) 2+2 seating
4) Cheap to maintain. Plentiful spare parts. Most people can service it.
5) wide body rear - the mark of exotic sports cars. Most cars have flat sides.
6) Long lasting appeal: already builds on a classic sexy design 40 years old; likely to be a modern classic
7) 20" wheels, wider rear wheels
8) Almost infinite modding capability

Comments about its competitors:

1) Hyundai Genesis Coupe: weak design elements; low power
2) Nissan 370Z: only 2 seater
3) Lexus ISF: 4 door, boring family sedan looking; expensive
4) Mercedes C63 AMG: 4 door, boring family sedan looking; expensive to buy and maintain
5) BMW M3: boring family sedan looking (blends in); expensive to buy and maintain
6) Infiniti G37 Coupe: low power; expensive to buy; tame looking (soft feminine lines, likely to look boring over time)
7) Mazda Rx-8: underpowered; design likely to look boring over time
8) Nissan GT-R: ugly looking; expensive to buy and maintain
9) Ford Mustang: tame looking (lacks curves, blends in, likely to look boring over time)
10) Dodge Challenger: less value for money (less power/performance), cheap interior, cool looking but not "hot" (flat sides etc.)

When you are rich enough to buy an exotic super car, you're at the stage of your life where you can say "to heck with it, I'm going to buy a car that is sexy and I'm not going to apologize for it". The rest of us were controlled by our financially sensible spouses, and car companies knew that. So for many decades car companies created tame looking boringmobiles that fulfilled their duties whilst putting most of us to sleep. It was the triumph of domestication that removed all right of men to be men, and turned them into purely responsible providers stripped of all individuality. This was the reality of the baby boomers.

But although the rest of us suffered along with baby boomers, we are now benefitting from them reaching retirement age. It's no coincidence that the style of cars from their irresponsible pre-marriage days are now resurging in popularity, as baby boomers are no longer shackled by their domestic responsibilities. At long last, the sexy car has returned to the comman man.

The Camaro is every bit the super car that the Mustang and Challenger aren't: a car designed purely for the senses with ridiculously adulterous curves, and with over-the-top performance numbers that aren't sensible in the least. The decision to have over 400HP was an arrogant "FU because I can" to the world that supercars have been proclaiming this whole time.

The chest-thumping savage dance around the fire, a ritual rich men have enjoyed the entire time during these dark ages of the last few decades of automotive blandness, can now be enjoyed by the rest of us.