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This IS personal! Ford pretty much owned not only Camaro in general yesterday but pretty much Chevrolet as a whole. The Corvette was even put on notice yesterday except for a ZR-1 Vette. Now the Ford lovers can brag that they have a bigger engine than GM does from the factory. If I was Chevrolet I would take this personal and do everything in their arsenal to own the Mustang and Ford so bad they will have no choice sooner than later to stop building Mustangs.
This was calculated by Ford to happen right before the ZL1 prices were announced so they wanted to screw them over before the car could even be released to the public. Also Chevrolet needs to get over thinking the Camaro is eating into Vette sales and make a higher performing Camaro if need be. These are two different markets. And they arent garnering any or many sales from Corvette right now anyway except from guys in their 60's mostly with the Vette. In this market you either come out swinging or you get embarassed and lately Chevrolet has been getting embarassed.
In fact I would be putting as many resources if not more into the Camaro than I would the Vette seeing as the Camaro is generating more sales since its at a lower price point. I hope that Chevrolet has an answer to this and an even BIGGER screw you to Ford after what they pulled yesterday. We are already beating them in the pocket in sales where it hurts now its time to beat them in performance too. We all know the next gen Mustang will be out within the next couple years so Chevrolet should be perfecting the alpha platform and making it as light as possible. I know they are hard at work on the ATS right now. Chevrolet should make sure the 6th Gen Camaro Alpha platform is lighter than the next gen Mustang then it will be over for them. Once Ford releases the weight and info on the new Stang make the next-gen Camaro considerably lighter and go from there. The 5th Gen Camaro simply isnt and wont cut it with its weight.
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