RE: Pic of the Week: Chevrolet Camaro
Friday 15th June 2012
Despite never really selling in big numbers in the UK (and indeed only making it over here officially on rare occasions), pics of US muscle cars must surely have been one of the most popular bedroom wall adornments of children's bedrooms over the past half-century. And of those, the Chevrolet Camaro has to have been one of the more popular.
Pic of the Week: Chevrolet Camaro
Made for your bedroom wall, now available on your computer...
So today's for POTW we revive that sense of bedroom wall excitement with your very own virtual wall poster. And the wonderfully incongruous setting of London's back streets is actually relevant, too, because The Camaro is now specifically set-up for European roads. Mind you, the all-new FE4 suspension package is apparently proving sufficiently popular to also be offered in the US...
So stick it on your desktop and enjoy. Or maybe print it out and Blu-tak it to your bedroom wall for old times' sake. You can even sit there and try to imitate the noises made by the 432hp 6.2-litre LS3 V8. And so what if your wife/significant other thinks you're completely mad?
Traditional (4:3)
Computer widescreen (16:10)
TV widescreen (16:9)
Portrait (smartphone etc)
Discussion
It's always annoyed me that they dont do a RHD version, I would have had one of these or any of the other American muscle cars a long time ago by now, The Viper, Corvette etc etc etc...
I know there probably isnt a market for RHD versions of these cars but surely they would take off if there was? The closest thing I can think of to this example is the Vauxhall Monaro, but even then they dont sell many!!!!
I know there probably isnt a market for RHD versions of these cars but surely they would take off if there was? The closest thing I can think of to this example is the Vauxhall Monaro, but even then they dont sell many!!!!
With respect, the Camaro has never been "one of the more popular".
Indeed until the advent of the 5th generation car, most people in the UK had never heard of the Camaro. They'd heard of the Challenger, Charger, Trans Am and Mustang of course but the Camaro was always a relative mystery to most Brits and even in 6 years with a 3rd and 4th gen Camaro, 99% of people were banjaxed by their identity.
Indeed until the advent of the 5th generation car, most people in the UK had never heard of the Camaro. They'd heard of the Challenger, Charger, Trans Am and Mustang of course but the Camaro was always a relative mystery to most Brits and even in 6 years with a 3rd and 4th gen Camaro, 99% of people were banjaxed by their identity.
PetrolAholic said:
It's always annoyed me that they dont do a RHD version, I would have had one of these or any of the other American muscle cars a long time ago by now, The Viper, Corvette etc etc etc...
I know there probably isnt a market for RHD versions of these cars but surely they would take off if there was? The closest thing I can think of to this example is the Vauxhall Monaro, but even then they dont sell many!!!!
You'd be surprised how closely related the Camaro is to the Monaro. There's no engineering reason that they can't be built in RHD, as the Camaro is built on the GM Zeta platform (VXR8). Some development mules were built by Holden, in RHD.I know there probably isnt a market for RHD versions of these cars but surely they would take off if there was? The closest thing I can think of to this example is the Vauxhall Monaro, but even then they dont sell many!!!!
I rented one for a week while I was in Cali in April.
"Ok Suurrrrr - You've got an SS Cameeaaaeeerrrreeeoooo - now, I can give you black, or yella"
My brain hadn't even finished registering the question when "YELLOW ONE!!!" shouted the good lady
It was the right choice. A childish grin crossed my face as we walked up to this daft, enormous, yellow muscle car.
Fired it up. 6 miles on the clock.
To US citizens - do not buy that particular car. I can guarantee that the first 800 miles were NOT in accordance with new vehicle running-in procedures.
What did astonish me - it returned, after converting into UK gallons - 32mpg on the freeway.
Although admitedly that figure dropped to 7mpg in town and on the Angels Crest Highway.
I miss it.
"Ok Suurrrrr - You've got an SS Cameeaaaeeerrrreeeoooo - now, I can give you black, or yella"
My brain hadn't even finished registering the question when "YELLOW ONE!!!" shouted the good lady
It was the right choice. A childish grin crossed my face as we walked up to this daft, enormous, yellow muscle car.
Fired it up. 6 miles on the clock.
To US citizens - do not buy that particular car. I can guarantee that the first 800 miles were NOT in accordance with new vehicle running-in procedures.
What did astonish me - it returned, after converting into UK gallons - 32mpg on the freeway.
Although admitedly that figure dropped to 7mpg in town and on the Angels Crest Highway.
I miss it.
The Crack Fox said:
The thing is, as cool as it looks on your desktop, they look as ridiculous on UK roads as a Smartcar would in Texas.
Not really4836(L) x 1918(W) x 1377(H)
This is more but mainly less than par with a last gen BMW 6 series which is 4871 x 1855 x 1377 and the only reason the Chevy is wider is because it has fixed door mirrors so gets quoted as part of the width.
LuS1fer said:
Not really
4836(L) x 1918(W) x 1377(H)
This is more but mainly less than par with a last gen BMW 6 series which is 4871 x 1855 x 1377 and the only reason the Chevy is wider is because it has fixed door mirrors so gets quoted as part of the width.
Do the EU spec mirrors fold? 4836(L) x 1918(W) x 1377(H)
This is more but mainly less than par with a last gen BMW 6 series which is 4871 x 1855 x 1377 and the only reason the Chevy is wider is because it has fixed door mirrors so gets quoted as part of the width.
The Crack Fox said:
The thing is, as cool as it looks on your desktop, they look as ridiculous on UK roads as a Smartcar would in Texas.
I dont agree at all. I dont think this car looks out of place at all over here and I also disagree about the Smartcar looking ridiculous in Texas. The Smartcar looks ridiculous everywhere!
The Crack Fox said:
The thing is, as cool as it looks on your desktop, they look as ridiculous on UK roads as a Smartcar would in Texas.
How can a car look ridiculous on U.K. Roads? That's idiotic.I saw one of these in yellow a couple of days back on the way back from Shrewsbury, it looked pretty good despite being yellow.
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