Camaro stillborn???

Started by Payman, December 26, 2008, 10:38:26 PM

the Teuton

Weird, because I am seeing a red 1997 C5 on my screen right now.
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Quote from: CJ on April 06, 2010, 10:48:54 PM
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Quote from: the Teuton on March 09, 2009, 07:47:03 PM
Are we seeing different pictures?  I posted a picture of a C5.

It's a C6 with the message:  "Image hotlinked - please use an embed code".  Basically a nice way of them telling you not to hog their bandwidth.
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Quote from: the Teuton on March 09, 2009, 07:47:03 PM
Are we seeing different pictures?  I posted a picture of a C5.
It's a picture of a C6.

C5, I agree, C6, no.
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Quote from: 68_427 on November 27, 2016, 07:43:14 AM
Or order from fortune auto and when lyft rider asks why your car feels bumpy you can show them the dyno curve
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Payman

Camaros are arriving at dealerships. Just let me say I've never been happier to be wrong.

:tounge:

FlatBlackCaddy

They just started making the cars for customers a few days ago, i doubt those cars are hitting dealerships. The floor models/training cars are making the rounds from what i hear.

They'll be a hell of a buy when the reach the end of the GTO/G8 cycle. I expect that in a year you can get a 32-35K SS for around 24K if you can haggle and navigate your way through the endless maze of rebates.

Payman

Quote from: FlatBlackCaddy on March 18, 2009, 06:15:01 PM
They just started making the cars for customers a few days ago, i doubt those cars are hitting dealerships. The floor models/training cars are making the rounds from what i hear.

They'll be a hell of a buy when the reach the end of the GTO/G8 cycle. I expect that in a year you can get a 32-35K SS for around 24K if you can haggle and navigate your way through the endless maze of rebates.

The dealer here just got a silver LT today, albeit a demo car. I haven't seen it yet... I'll check for sure tomorrow.

And next spring is when daddy gets his black SS.  :tounge:

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Quote from: Payman on March 18, 2009, 06:19:51 PM

And next spring is when daddy gets his black SS.  :tounge:
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Quote from: ChrisV on March 09, 2009, 08:12:03 AM


GM's Oshawa plant, this month.

Looks photoshopped to me.

Does that yellow one have a sunroof?
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Quote from: the Teuton on October 05, 2009, 03:53:18 PMIt's impossible to argue with Raza. He wins. Period. End of discussion.

SVT666

Quote from: Raza  link=topic=16973.msg1022407#msg1022407 date=1237426443
Looks photoshopped to me.

Does that yellow one have a sunroof?
You're right it does.  The red ones all have identically placed white plastic on the body...and I mean identical.  It's different on the yellow ones.

Payman

No, that's the real deal.

Raza

Quote from: HEMI666 on March 18, 2009, 07:38:38 PM
You're right it does.  The red ones all have identically placed white plastic on the body...and I mean identical.  It's different on the yellow ones.

Oh, I was kidding about the photoshopped thing, but now that you mention it...
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Quote from: the Teuton on October 05, 2009, 03:53:18 PMIt's impossible to argue with Raza. He wins. Period. End of discussion.

TBR

Quote from: Raza  on March 18, 2009, 07:34:03 PM
Looks photoshopped to me.

Does that yellow one have a sunroof?

A sunroof is optional.

FlatBlackCaddy

Quote from: TBR on March 18, 2009, 07:49:19 PM
A sunroof is optional.

Isn't it odd that all the yellow(and looks like black) have a sunroof but all the red car(of which the vast majority are) don't have one and the wrap(as pointed out) is identical in the ones visable.

Probably a photoshop, GM is trying to pretend that they aren't just sucking the american taxpayer dry and actually still trying to be a car company.


sandertheshark

Quote from: FlatBlackCaddy on March 18, 2009, 07:51:03 PM

Probably a photoshop, GM is trying to pretend that they aren't just sucking the american taxpayer dry and actually still trying to be a car company.

Well, GM is being sucked dry by the UAW, and Obama's tax plan is going to screw all those poor sons of bitches who are making six figs without a college degree.  So it all works out, you see.  The karmic circle closes.

Raza

Quote from: sandertheshark on March 18, 2009, 08:00:10 PM
Well, GM is being sucked dry by the UAW, and Obama's tax plan is going to screw all those poor sons of bitches who are making six figs without a college degree.  So it all works out, you see.  The karmic circle closes.

I'd work for GM.  As long as they pay me no more than $249K.
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Quote from: the Teuton on October 05, 2009, 03:53:18 PMIt's impossible to argue with Raza. He wins. Period. End of discussion.

FlatBlackCaddy

Quote from: sandertheshark on March 18, 2009, 08:00:10 PM
Well, GM is being sucked dry by the UAW, and Obama's tax plan is going to screw all those poor sons of bitches who are making six figs without a college degree.  So it all works out, you see.  The karmic circle closes.

Whatever, as long as my boy rick keeps pulling in G's that's all that matters. He's worked hard and it shows, if the UAW would have put in some effort his hard work wouldn't have been for nothing.

Soup DeVille

Quote from: HEMI666 on March 18, 2009, 07:38:38 PM
You're right it does.  The red ones all have identically placed white plastic on the body...and I mean identical.  It's different on the yellow ones.

I hate this argument.

FWIW, that is Oshawa.
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Quote from: HEMI666 on March 18, 2009, 07:38:38 PM
You're right it does.  The red ones all have identically placed white plastic on the body...and I mean identical.  It's different on the yellow ones.
Look at the signs on the windshield of all the red cars... they are in slightly different places, so it isn't a photoshop.
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Quote from: 68_427 on November 27, 2016, 07:43:14 AM
Or order from fortune auto and when lyft rider asks why your car feels bumpy you can show them the dyno curve
1 3 5
├┼┤
2 4 R

TBR

Quote from: Soup DeVille on March 19, 2009, 01:30:20 AM


I hate this argument.

FWIW, that is Oshawa.

It's really quite desperate, isn't it? I am not sure why people care so much, this will hardly be the first time the Camaro was better performing than the Mustang.

r0tor

Quote from: Raza  on March 18, 2009, 07:34:03 PM
Looks photoshopped to me.

Does that yellow one have a sunroof?

That pic has been proven to have at least a false context as it was weeks before the first production customer car rolled off the line to rick hendrick 2 days ago
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Payman

Quote from: r0tor on March 19, 2009, 08:18:09 AM
That pic has been proven to have at least a false context as it was weeks before the first production customer car rolled off the line to rick hendrick 2 days ago

The first production car did not roll off the line 2 or 3 days ago... more like weeks ago. It was probably delivered to him a few days ago.

SVT666

Quote from: Payman on March 19, 2009, 09:31:06 AM
The first production car did not roll off the line 2 or 3 days ago... more like weeks ago. It was probably delivered to him a few days ago.
March 16th was the first day a production Camaro rolled off the line.

Rick Hendrick drives the first 2010 Camaro off the assembly line
Posted by Doug Demmons-- The Birmingham News March 17, 2009 1:40 PM

NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick was in Ontario on Monday at the GM plant there to take delivery of the first production model 2010 Camaro to roll off the line -- VIN #0001.

Hendrick wasn't just picked to receive the first Camaro. It cost him $385,000 after he made the winning bid for the car at the Barrett-Jackson auction in January.

the Teuton

I sat in a preproduction, hand-built car, I take it?
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Quote from: CJ on April 06, 2010, 10:48:54 PM
I don't care about all that shit.  I'll be going to college to get an education at a cost to my parents.  I'm not going to fool around.
Quote from: MrH on January 14, 2011, 01:13:53 PM
She'll hate diesel passenger cars, all things Ford, and fiat currency.  They will masturbate to old interviews of Ayn Rand an youtube together.
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Those Camaros on the lot were preproduction line validation cars.  Not to be sold to the public, but are otherwise the same as the salable cars
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Quote from: HEMI666 on March 19, 2009, 10:05:59 AM
March 16th was the first day a production Camaro rolled off the line.

Rick Hendrick drives the first 2010 Camaro off the assembly line
Posted by Doug Demmons-- The Birmingham News March 17, 2009 1:40 PM

NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick was in Ontario on Monday at the GM plant there to take delivery of the first production model 2010 Camaro to roll off the line -- VIN #0001.

Hendrick wasn't just picked to receive the first Camaro. It cost him $385,000 after he made the winning bid for the car at the Barrett-Jackson auction in January.


Probably a staged photo op. I'm hearing some insider stuff about the line running for weeks now. I have to go see if the dealer here really does have a demo on the lot...

FlatBlackCaddy

Camaro deliveries have been pushed back a few weeks from what i've been hearing.

Apparently the first few loads have been damaging transport rigs, DOT officials and GM as well as the trucking company engineers have discovered the problem is a result of the camaro's curb weight. Apparently the trucking company was under the impression they were transporting 2 door sports cars and sent trailers rated for such. The trucking company has dispatched the proper trailers and will be back on track in a few weeks.

Payman

Quote from: FlatBlackCaddy on March 19, 2009, 10:48:45 AM
Camaro deliveries have been pushed back a few weeks from what i've been hearing.

Apparently the first few loads have been damaging transport rigs, DOT officials and GM as well as the trucking company engineers have discovered the problem is a result of the camaro's curb weight. Apparently the trucking company was under the impression they were transporting 2 door sports cars and sent trailers rated for such. The trucking company has dispatched the proper trailers and will be back on track in a few weeks.

Wow, not good.

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Quote from: FlatBlackCaddy on March 19, 2009, 10:48:45 AM
Camaro deliveries have been pushed back a few weeks from what i've been hearing.

Apparently the first few loads have been damaging transport rigs, DOT officials and GM as well as the trucking company engineers have discovered the problem is a result of the camaro's curb weight. Apparently the trucking company was under the impression they were transporting 2 door sports cars and sent trailers rated for such. The trucking company has dispatched the proper trailers and will be back on track in a few weeks.
:clap:

Or is this story just a sarcastic jibe at the Camaro's curb weight...
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