I Agree with most of this. Good or bad feedback; it all holds the same weight, and it should all be recieved respectfully. I will ask anyone commenting though; we're all passionate about the car, but
please try to not overdo it...given the MASSIVE traffic lately, we really don't want to read 20+ clone posts of why you like or dislike something......
Now, for the opposite of "most".
I have to take issue with a few points (not many).
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Originally Posted by Cubanaso
NOT, that there isn't reasoning behind it (I blame, as Dragon said, mainly that it's a global 4 door platform) but I honestly think this is GM's biggest mistake with the car. It's a mistake that makes it fuel economy less than what it can be and it's HP not as efficiently used.
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I know you know why the car is as hefty as it is. But be careful when using the word "mistake". It can't be a mistake if there was no choice to begin with. Well...I suppose there was a choice: It was Zeta Camaro, or no Camaro.
What would you have chosen?
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Originally Posted by Cubanaso
(minus the automatic only G8 GT STUPID STUPID STUPID mistake, lost me as a customer on that one).
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Again, be careful with the word "mistake". A transmission must go through validation procedures, which costs $$. After some research they found that for a car like the G8, a manual transmission wasn't going to be checked off on that order form often enough to merit validating it. Not only that, we're all aware (I hope) that a manual does not work well with AFM. So they'd have to go through testing and validation of a two engine setup just like the Camaro. Based on research, there was just not enough demand for the manual to justify it.
And...I'd point you to the nearest Pontiac dealer. The GT's are flying off the lots. It seems it wasn't as big of a mistake for the car as you might have thought.
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Originally Posted by Cubanaso
What I'd like, is for a head GM person to come here and chat with us all.
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They may not chat, but they watch. They read....we're not a hole in the wall; that's for sure. Between us and the other Camaro sites - we might very well move a mountain if the mood took us....
And like Elie said; they are interested in input from both fields; there'll probably be opportunities in the future.
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Originally Posted by Cubanaso
If anything, GM...with the above, be glad it's petty because then that means most of the majors are not real issues.
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I wanted this last, so I could end on a happy tone.
Given that so many 'problems' are the equivilant to not liking the color of your local highway; I think it can be concluded that GM hit a home-run and then some!
