Then maybe the mocking should stop...ever care to wonder
why weight is so "out of hand"? Is it because engineers across the board got lazy? Is it because everyone is content to build heavy cars?
Maybe there's something more...something like saftey standards that, imo, are out of hand. Maybe there's millions of people who judge a car by its gadgetry, and yet further...maybe it's the wild quest for horsepower that is driving up the power-handling requirements! What would most of you here say to a 3500lb, V6-ONLY Camaro that performed just as well as this one will? Heresy? Blasphemous? "Not a Camaro"?
hmmm...Challenger, GT500(and no doubt soon the rest of the 'stangs), Camaro, GTR (yes, GTR)....something is telling me very loudly that weight is going up across the board...and not just Camaro. Having sat and thought about this for a while, I retract ALL my comments made about the Challenger being a 'Pig'. It's vuloptuous.
I
still say that the Camaro won't
feel like it weighs as much as it does. The G8 is getting alcolades even though it weights more, and so will the Camaro. Moreso than the G8 I'd say, due to it's performance-orientation. Just don't look at the numbers only and decide it's an underperforming "pig".