I suggest you drive it before knocking it. If it doesn't suit you when all's said and done, buy a used Vette. you might as well, because thats about the price you are going to pay to buy the car plus make the alterations. Losing weight costs money. Had GM done it on their own it would have priced the car out of the range of 80% of the people on this website. I understand your dilemma, but this isn't a sportscar. The main objective of the Camaro was to put affordable speed and good looks in the hands of the common man, not to blow the non-existing doors off an Ariel Atom at the track.