Anyone thinking of selling their mini and buying the 2010 Camaro

I sure am

 

Why?

 

Maybe to get more wheel gap?

 

the new Camaro is hideous looking :barf:

 

You mean downgrade from the Mini to the Camaro?

 

The muscle car retro remakes have exactly zero appeal to me.

 

I think its a decent looking car.



I thought I would lov the Challenger and hate the Camaro, but its the other way around after actually seeing a Challenger. Totally not what I expected.

 

I think the camaro is cool but after I traded it in and started getting my *** handed to me by a mini on the track I would regret the purchase so..... I will keep my mini. I dont think this is the crowd to be trading their mini's for a big v8 muscle car to be honest.

 

Tempting.......But it just will not be the quick tossable car the Mini is and after watching a GT 500 Tang fade in the rearview mirror at VIR, I'ma gonna stick wit da Mini!

PS: Just can't imagine it being as fun on the Dragon either....

 

Nope. Not a chance in hell.

 

Not sure but the first offerings will be v-6 the v-8 later. I prefer the Challenger SRT-8 (I'd love to see the srt-10 make it), but I cannot justify 40k for a car. R53 for me thank you very much.

 

Why would anyone want to buy a car that is made by a manufacturer who is losing BILLIONS per quarter and whose stock prices are in the crapper? Do you think that the people building the cars at this point really give a hoot?

 

I do have another reason for not buying Chevy... I watched speed channel a few years back and it had some VP from chevrotlet on and when asked about price points and listening to consumers about wanted vehicles (about the same time they canceled the camaro), he said "we set the price that high because people will pay it it, and we do not need to listen to the customers wants, they will buy what we tell them to buy" Bad taste in my mouth after that... now I don't believe the fellow works for Chevy anymore.

 

I am sure they care about the Camaro. Why would they just throw in the towel at the end, thats just not what companies do. They want to survive so they are going to try and survive. The camaro is a cool car but in the long run I would be worried about support, warranties, parts, and the possiblity that these will go away forever.

 

I wouldn't worry too much about the future of GM; they've been bailed out before.

I'm just old enough (and enough of a gearhead) to remember the oil embargo of the 1970's. Back then the problem wasn't so much the price, but that there wasn't enough gas to go around.

Chrysler (and GM) sold mostly large, inefficient cars and trucks, so when people started buying smaller, more efficient cars because of the gas problems, Chrysler lost a lot of sales. Chrysler then teamed up with GM and told the government that it would be too expensive to re-tool their production lines to build smaller cars, and that the future of GM was critical to the overall US economy. They were given $1.5 billion (had to look that up) in bailout money, re-tooled and became competitive again. And that's $1.5 billion back in the day when gas was 75 cents a gallon and you could get a can of soda for 35 cents.

Now, 30 years later, there's another gas problem, GM is caught selling cars that no-one really wants because of their fuel efficiency and GM is looking for a bailout. Isn't it nice when history repeats itself?

 

A modified classic would be better IMHO.

Ahem, clarification... if getting rid of the MINI was even an option... which it is not. I'm not sayin'... I'm just sayin'.

 

Everyone keep talking about how the auto companies just built what we asked for. That may be true but the real problem is the big US automakers didn't learn from the first time (or were just to greedy to be smart) and completely lacked any vision.

If they get bailed out they need to take some responsibility for their future: stop being greedy and show some spine, where you lead the way rather than follow a trail of easy money.

 

I like the camero and will get one or on the list when they come out!

 

I've always been a RWD V8 muscle car fan, but I also appreciate other types of autos as well. A few of my friends are "on the list" for the SS (the V8) when it comes out. I'm looking forward to seeing how they like it. One could certainly end up in my garage in a few years.

 

The camero looks very NICE, I really love its style more so than the Dodge and mustang. In fact the camero is in a class above the others, however I am always concerned with American craftmanship and materials they use inside the car.
For example the Corvette, very able car, but when you open the door and look inside its just Cheap looking.
If the camero comes off the line with an interior to match the European quality AND gets the mpg a european sports car can attain Id buy one SOOOO FAST.
Besides dont they start at 45,000? For a little more you can get some very nice cars.

 

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It doesn't meet my transporation progression:

MG-->CRX-->MINI-->jet pack/anti gravity boots (whatever the man comes up with by the time i get another ride)

 

If I'm going to go for the muscle car look, it surely won't be retro. I'll build my own from a real muscle car. But that's just my opinion. Oh, and that Camaro doesn't look very retro to me.

 

As my brother once told me, never buy the first generation of a GM car, or for that matter, never buy a GM car.

 

As Jeremy Clarkson once said, "stuff sold by the gram is always better than stuff sold by the pound."

It's Mini all the way for me!