Way to go GM...
#66
Same designer for both the C6 and 5th Gen Camaro. Note the slight double bubble roof on both too.
I'm not crazy about the back up lights but the lines of the 5th are overall very good from a design standpoint. Unlike the Challenger and lesser extent, Mustang the Camaro captures the flair of the 1st gen w/o copying it.
I'm not crazy about the back up lights but the lines of the 5th are overall very good from a design standpoint. Unlike the Challenger and lesser extent, Mustang the Camaro captures the flair of the 1st gen w/o copying it.
#68
Here's the rest of the pics, I think it looks pretty dang badass...
http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=879881
It looks way better than the frumpy *** Mustang, and the Challenger is such a huge boat anchor it only looks good in pics. Put it next to this Camaro or other real cars for perspective and it will look like the massive overweight land barge it is. I mean come on, the Challenger is 4100+ lbs!?!?! Sure everything is getting bigger/heavier it seems but come on. Here's hoping the Camaro comes in under 3700-3800lbs. Maybe it'll be even lighter, the pic I saw of a camo'd mule next to a 05+ Stang made the Camaro look nice and small. It'll whoop the Challengers *** big time if so...
I like that first image posted up on the first page too, shows how pointy the front end is, looks badass IMO and does remind me of a knights helmeted face or something. The only part I don't like is the headlights which are known to be placeholders taken direclty from a parts store's shelves. I don't think I like the bezels or whatever around the rear taillights, but it probably looks good on a non-black car.
In fact I want to see some pics of a non black car (other than the earliest white pre-production shots) due to the way the lower fascia around the exhaust pipe area is cutout/black like on the C6. Goes a looooonnnggg way toward making the rear end look smaller/meaner IMO. I love that style on the GTOs, G8, and the C6. Needs a lip spoiler pretty badly like every Camaro in history though.
As for the rear end shot here, I don't think any car looks good w/ that angle and zoom/fisheye or whatever they have going on.
such as below and that doesn't have half the funky mis-proportioned image thing going on:
http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=879881
It looks way better than the frumpy *** Mustang, and the Challenger is such a huge boat anchor it only looks good in pics. Put it next to this Camaro or other real cars for perspective and it will look like the massive overweight land barge it is. I mean come on, the Challenger is 4100+ lbs!?!?! Sure everything is getting bigger/heavier it seems but come on. Here's hoping the Camaro comes in under 3700-3800lbs. Maybe it'll be even lighter, the pic I saw of a camo'd mule next to a 05+ Stang made the Camaro look nice and small. It'll whoop the Challengers *** big time if so...
I like that first image posted up on the first page too, shows how pointy the front end is, looks badass IMO and does remind me of a knights helmeted face or something. The only part I don't like is the headlights which are known to be placeholders taken direclty from a parts store's shelves. I don't think I like the bezels or whatever around the rear taillights, but it probably looks good on a non-black car.
In fact I want to see some pics of a non black car (other than the earliest white pre-production shots) due to the way the lower fascia around the exhaust pipe area is cutout/black like on the C6. Goes a looooonnnggg way toward making the rear end look smaller/meaner IMO. I love that style on the GTOs, G8, and the C6. Needs a lip spoiler pretty badly like every Camaro in history though.
As for the rear end shot here, I don't think any car looks good w/ that angle and zoom/fisheye or whatever they have going on.
such as below and that doesn't have half the funky mis-proportioned image thing going on:
Last edited by Ray86IROC; 03-11-2008 at 12:53 AM.
#70
Hmm, new pics of the white one I hadn't seen here: http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3143
True duals for the win....
True duals for the win....
#72
The rear picture of that car he snaped, is just a REAL bad angle and picture....the rear looks 500x better then it looks in that picture.
....all car's have there bad angles...**** 4th gen camaros look like **** from certain angles.
Its best to wait for a final finished production car, its still just a mule....changes can and will be made probably.
....all car's have there bad angles...**** 4th gen camaros look like **** from certain angles.
Its best to wait for a final finished production car, its still just a mule....changes can and will be made probably.
#73
from fbodfather
it's crucial that you put a new vehicle thru every possible test -- and test to failure........
So -- you put a big trailer behind it -- with lots of weight -- to test HVAC and cooling capabilities -- and also to test driveline components -- again, to failure. Once you have failure -- you go back and do root cause --and then make the component(s) more robust.....
it's crucial that you put a new vehicle thru every possible test -- and test to failure........
So -- you put a big trailer behind it -- with lots of weight -- to test HVAC and cooling capabilities -- and also to test driveline components -- again, to failure. Once you have failure -- you go back and do root cause --and then make the component(s) more robust.....
#74
from fbodfather
it's crucial that you put a new vehicle thru every possible test -- and test to failure........
So -- you put a big trailer behind it -- with lots of weight -- to test HVAC and cooling capabilities -- and also to test driveline components -- again, to failure. Once you have failure -- you go back and do root cause --and then make the component(s) more robust.....
it's crucial that you put a new vehicle thru every possible test -- and test to failure........
So -- you put a big trailer behind it -- with lots of weight -- to test HVAC and cooling capabilities -- and also to test driveline components -- again, to failure. Once you have failure -- you go back and do root cause --and then make the component(s) more robust.....
#75
or LT1 owner for that matter , but yeah seems something better could have been done. I read on here many years ago that one of the engineers was asked about this and his answer was that they felt the 10 bolt was sufficient and that the clutch would slip or tires break loose before the rear end would break. A beefed up rear would have been a nice option at least on the 6spd cars.