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Originally Posted by kiteman
sorry for the intro, but i've always heard foreign cars are more reliable, blah blah. now i'm convinced that is truly BS, and i'm ready to go back to bang-for-the-buck raw power.
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I'm sorry to hear you had to become convinced the hard way...no matter what car a person buys -- it's always a pain in the behind when troubles just won't stop coming. :(
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Originally Posted by kiteman
do you guys generally like gen 5 camaros? are they reliable, any known problems? easy to mod without voiding the warranty? have you driven a c6 and how does the ls3 compare in both? any general advice or input you have would be great. i really should have done more of these types of posts before i got my bimmer. thanks for all the help.
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I don't own one yet...so I'm not sure how valuable my comments will be to you...
I love 5thgen Camaros. Hottest car on the road.
They are very reliable...while there are a few issues that seem to keep popping up - none of them are anything major, worth worrying over. Am I guaranteeing a flawless ownership? No. You don't build a product this complex without
something going wrong at some point...but the warranty's the best in the biz @ 5/100,000 miles powertrain.
Generally, speaking -- the car's built at the second-most highest ranked assembly plant in the continent in terms of quality...and the engineering team did a helluva job making sure the Camaro was flawless, rapidly attending to the few issues that showed themselves in the first few months of production. So, in my opinion, the likelihood of something going wrong is low.
You can modify the car...but anything big...like superchargers, tunes, etc, etc...they'll only void the warranty if it causes something to break. And they will check. But, if you have an intake, lowering springs, and headers on, for example, it's unlikely you'll have any trouble...
I have driven both, though again, I don't own them...the Vette is quicker, because it's lighter. Very simple physics there...but the Camaro is no less strong. It sounds just as great, and it's VERY comfortable and more supportive than the Corvette. The LS3 in the Corvette is rated at 430hp, while it loses 4 hp when used in the Camaro, but otherwise they're pretty much identical. Easy 25mpg on the highway, probably more like 18-19 combined...of course that all depends how hard you drive it.
I hope this was helpful to you, and if you decide to get one - I hope you have a "perma-grin", like so many people around this site do.