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[TxBandit911]

With this being my first post, I'd like to start out by saying "hello everyone"!
I've been lurking for about a year, and just registered.
I have been exited about this car yet undecided about weather to buy one or not. Last year due to new baby and financial reasons, I was forced to sell my most prized posession, my 2000 Trans-Am. I had poured lots of money into it and we had been thru hell together. I now have a '04 GTO, Ill have it payed off this October, with less than 40k miles on it, Im thinking it will make a good down payment on a new Camaro. I just have one thing holding me back, you guys may think this is stupid, but, With no Pontiac version of the car, I feel really left out and let down by GM. Ive had about 4 Trans-Ams and 6 f-bodies all together, Im a big time Pontiac fan, always have been. Ive daily driven them, raced them, built them, worked on countless T/As as a mechanic. They are, in a way, my true love. Dont get me wrong, the new Camro is a near perfect car. I really like it. Just kinda makes me feel like a sellout to go ahead and order one.

Sorry for the rant, I guess Im looking for some one to help talk me into ordering, lol. Either I order one soon, or I get me a used 4th gen T/A and start over.

Thanks

[kdbolt70]

Originally Posted by TxBandit911

With this being my first post, I'd like to start out by saying "hello everyone"!
I've been lurking for about a year, and just registered.
I have been exited about this car yet undecided about weather to buy one or not. Last year due to new baby and financial reasons, I was forced to sell my most prized posession, my 2000 Trans-Am. I had poured lots of money into it and we had been thru hell together. I now have a '04 GTO, Ill have it payed off this October, with less than 40k miles on it, Im thinking it will make a good down payment on a new Camaro. I just have one thing holding me back, you guys may think this is stupid, but, With no Pontiac version of the car, I feel really left out and let down by GM. Ive had about 4 Trans-Ams and 6 f-bodies all together, Im a big time Pontiac fan, always have been. Ive daily driven them, raced them, built them, worked on countless T/As as a mechanic. They are, in a way, my true love. Dont get me wrong, the new Camro is a near perfect car. I really like it. Just kinda makes me feel like a sellout to go ahead and order one.

Sorry for the rant, I guess Im looking for some one to help talk me into ordering, lol. Either I order one soon, or I get me a used 4th gen T/A and start over.

Thanks

Coming from a GM family, and the son of a man who was in the conference room the day they decided to cut Pontiac, it was absolutely not by choice. The brand was unsustainable in this economy, and although GM gave it everything they had to build an amazing product line (which in all reality, they did) it still wasn't enough to keep the brand viable.

That being said, you shouldn't let that get in the way of you owning a Camaro. There is muscle car heritage teeming throughout this entire vehicle, in a way that really makes the glory days of the sixties and seventies proud. It has a stunning exterior, functional interior, and massive powertrain. It is something every GM fan can get behind and be proud of, and has the ability to make people think twice about writing off American made vehicles.

This car is the lifeblood of General Motors, and stands for so many cars that came before it. In many ways, it is standing on the shoulders of giants. That is why it is worthy of ownership.

At least, that's how I see it.


oh, and welcome to Camaro5!!

[25thanniversary]

welcome to the site enjoy your stay

[2010cantwait]

Like it has been posted before, GM doesnt need competition from its own vehicles. I would have loved to see a firebird....

[Colt Faro Camaro]

Originally Posted by kdbolt70

Coming from a GM family, and the son of a man who was in the conference room the day they decided to cut Pontiac, it was absolutely not by choice. The brand was unsustainable in this economy, and although GM gave it everything they had to build an amazing product line (which in all reality, they did) it still wasn't enough to keep the brand viable.

That being said, you shouldn't let that get in the way of you owning a Camaro. There is muscle car heritage teeming throughout this entire vehicle, in a way that really makes the glory days of the sixties and seventies proud. It has a stunning exterior, functional interior, and massive powertrain. It is something every GM fan can get behind and be proud of, and has the ability to make people think twice about writing off American made vehicles.

This car is the lifeblood of General Motors, and stands for so many cars that came before it. In many ways, it is standing on the shoulders of giants. That is why it is worthy of ownership.

At least, that's how I see it.


oh, and welcome to Camaro5!!

Well Said!!!

[PQ]

I don't see the problem. A firebird is just a Camaro with pretty little cuts in it. Buy the Camaro, it's the closest you will get. I for one thought the Firebird was allways kinda a wannabe Camaro.

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[TJTKSDMJ8]

Welcome!

[DkknightX]

Originally Posted by irpq11

I don't see the problem. A firebird is just a Camaro with pretty little cuts in it. Buy the Camaro, it's the closest you will get. I for one thought the Firebird was allways kinda a wannabe Camaro.

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BITE YOUR TONGUE!!

[SummoneR]

Originally Posted by Colt Faro Camaro

Well Said!!!

Exactly what I was going to say! +1

[SScattergunSS]

Originally Posted by TxBandit911

With this being my first post, I'd like to start out by saying "hello everyone"!
I've been lurking for about a year, and just registered.
I have been exited about this car yet undecided about weather to buy one or not. Last year due to new baby and financial reasons, I was forced to sell my most prized posession, my 2000 Trans-Am. I had poured lots of money into it and we had been thru hell together. I now have a '04 GTO, Ill have it payed off this October, with less than 40k miles on it, Im thinking it will make a good down payment on a new Camaro. I just have one thing holding me back, you guys may think this is stupid, but, With no Pontiac version of the car, I feel really left out and let down by GM. Ive had about 4 Trans-Ams and 6 f-bodies all together, Im a big time Pontiac fan, always have been. Ive daily driven them, raced them, built them, worked on countless T/As as a mechanic. They are, in a way, my true love. Dont get me wrong, the new Camro is a near perfect car. I really like it. Just kinda makes me feel like a sellout to go ahead and order one.

Sorry for the rant, I guess Im looking for some one to help talk me into ordering, lol. Either I order one soon, or I get me a used 4th gen T/A and start over.

Thanks

To tell you the truth, I probably would have went with a Trans Am too if they had offered it.

[fierodeletre]

Fellow Poncho nut here too. Only thing you can say is, "Oh effing well." At least there's a chevy F-body. It's not the same though, and non-pontiac guys will never 'get' what made our birds so special to us. And as for the firebird wanting to be a camaro, remember which division was the cooler one in the public eye in 1967 when they both came out. (donning flamesuit)

[TxBandit911]

thank you all for your replies. I understand GM has to make money, and I dont want GM to completely go away. The Camaro has always been my 2nd favorite car I just cant help but see this platform with that touch of style Pontiac gave previouse f-bodies. Just feels like somethings missing. I get the competing with itself stuff, so why keep GMC? If so, then kill the Silverado/Tahoe/Suburban and let GMC be the truck/suv devision? Anyway, it doesnt matter, really.

Im prolly gonna go ahead and order. Oh and btw, I dont consider utilizing a shared unibody platform, designing your own engines, rearends, etc etc as "pretending to be a camaro".

[Gibb]

Pontiac has made some very cool cars 67 firebird, 67 GTO, Bonneville and a host of others. Will we loose the GMC pickup as well.

[IROCanSS]

sorry Pontiac dies today... ORDER NOW, SAVE GM!