http://www.insideline.com/chevrolet/...have-a-v8.html

 

In just seven months!

 

This is one of those good news-bad news deals. 2/3 V8s is a reality check to those who would want Camaro to have a future without a V8, but it also messes pretty badly with Camaro's CAFE strategy.

 

Agreed.

 

Good point; most people won't think to consider the CAFE implications. I know I didn't.

I can't help but wonder how the pent-up demand (and subsequent scarcity / markups) have affected this statistic. People in the market for a fun DD but who don't care much about Camaro (in my mind, these are people who might have bought a V6 Camaro) probably walked in to the dealer, were told they had to wait 12 weeks and pay five grand in markup, and walked right out, only to purchase a Mustang/Challenger/G35/Genesis/whatever. OTOH, people who had been waiting since 2002 to buy a new Camaro and have been salivating over the concept since 2006 were probably all about the V8 and not about to consider a the competition, so those people were either a) willing to wait, b) willing to pay the markup, or c) willing to travel to find what the wanted sooner and at the right price.

 

That's still an awesome total sales number - the car appears to have some good staying power. Even though it is not for me, I'm glad to see it doing so well, and hope it stays "hot".

 

All more the reason to green-light the twin-turbo V6.

 

I have to seriously wonder why they are suprised at V8 demand. No one has 7 years of pent up fanaticism over a v6 Camaro. Once the fanatics have their cars, V6 sales will pick up as more "regular" folk are able to get into cars that are in stock in dealerships.

It's like of the reverse of what happened in '01 and '02 when word of the impending death of Fbody broke, the sales went heavily towards the v8 cars, as you could get v6 sport coupes anyplace.

 

V8=

 

the origional goal was 100,000 unitsand then they knocked it down to 60,000 right? i dont see how they couldnt achieve the goal by the end of the year. if they can get them all out.

 

Regardless, it's still selling well, still beating out the Mustang Let's hope the momentum keeps up throughout next year. I agree with CLEAN, once the fanatics get their V8's the V6 sales will start to slowly take over.

 

Oddly enough, while I haven't seen many Camaros in these parts it has been about a 50/50 split between V8s and V6s.

 

That still seems like a decent amount of V6's. Anyone know what the totals for 1998-2002 were? I don't think they were selling hardly any V6 cars back then.

 

It was pretty even for a while, but then got heavily skewed towards V8s at the end.

 

I think those numbers will even out once the Camaro has been out longer. I think for now there are still a good amount of enthusiast demand and that tends to be for V8's.