So through out work today (like im sure most of you) i spent all day glued to this site and the new camaro website so pretty much everyone knew something was up today with the car
Story one starts off with one of the guys I work with just bought a new lancer and has been going on and on about how much he loves the car and he has about 2500 dollars worth of mods in the 2 months he has had it etc etc. So he tells me all of the time how I should just go out and by a new car and not wait for the camaro and how it will never get built. then he tells me he sees them all of the time out on the road and tells me Im obviously not that into the car because i dont see them (we figured out what he was really seeing was challengers). So finally today with the new website out I send him a link and after about 30 minutes playing around on it he comes by and asks "do you think i could trade in my lancer in a year and get a camaro? it has more horsepower and better gas mileage than my car"
Then around 2 this afternoon one of the other guys in the building walks by and sees my poster I got as a thank you package posted on the side of my cube and says "oh yeah ive seen one of those". Well like i said i have people telling me they see them all the time so im only half paying attention and then the guy says "yeah i saw it while they were doing high heat climate testing out in Arizona."
at this point my head just jerks around to the guy. So we spend the next 10 minutes talking about the car and he tells me about all of the testing he saw them doing, it was awesome, too bad he didnt have pictures. Buit finally i finished up and told him that the V6 gets 29 MPG on the highway and he says "and it still has over 300 HP, right?" "you better believe it" "hmm.... i might have to look into getting one of those"
final story of the day non camaro related. I live with 2 other guys and we go over to this 4th guys house to lift weights every other night or so. Luckily tonight it wasnt my turn to drive as about half way through lifting we get a knock at the door. Turns out some dumbass kid (couldnt have been older than 18) parked his manual truck up the hill on the side of the road from where we parked and he decided to just leave the truck in first gear and not use the emergency break
lets just say I dont think the honda fit did to well in crash testing.. because um.. DAMN it now looks like a stepped on bug with both head lights popped out to the side and hood pushed all the way back exposing the engine. personally i think it was karma for the guy buying a honda fit but i didnt say that.... well at least not yet