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Originally Posted by AudiLover
OK then if you like simple simple stoneage engineering all the more power to you. All the european reviews of that car all said the same thing. Its crap unless you want to only go in a straight line. The thing is so crap with corners and it has a crap manual box I dont see why anyone would want to buy it. Ok so You might be able to do loads of burnouts up to third gear but whats the fun in that when you only hjave to go and buy a new set of tires afterwards.
The only good thing about the camaro is that its mechanically reliable. But other than that its crap. Oh and its cheap too. But you get what you pay for I suppose.
And those power figures you quoted was for the top of the range camaro and high 20s for mpg is a joke. I can show you plenty of magazines that will argue any figure above 20mpg.
only 305hp from 5.7 liters. Woah what and engineering feat. So it guzzles fuel and its a low revver, crap around corners has a horrible interior and exterior comes fitted with crap 16 inch alloys and a crap manual gearbox.
Yet this car in your eyes is special. Mate do you know how far backwards americans car technology is. Theyre only introducing stuff now to their engines that us europeans and japanese have had since the 80's.
The only good thing about the camaro is that its mechanically reliable. But other than that its crap. Oh and its cheap too. But you get what you pay for I suppose.
And those power figures you quoted was for the top of the range camaro and high 20s for mpg is a joke. I can show you plenty of magazines that will argue any figure above 20mpg.
only 305hp from 5.7 liters. Woah what and engineering feat. So it guzzles fuel and its a low revver, crap around corners has a horrible interior and exterior comes fitted with crap 16 inch alloys and a crap manual gearbox.
Yet this car in your eyes is special. Mate do you know how far backwards americans car technology is. Theyre only introducing stuff now to their engines that us europeans and japanese have had since the 80's.
Crap manual gearbox? That'll be the German-made crap manual gearbox then?
They may well be "rated" at 305hp but they make loads more. Within GM there are strange political powers at work which means that the Corvette must always be the most powerful GM car on offer. Strangely, the original LS1 Corvette got rated at 345hp despite no changes being made to the engine at all. Later they got rated at 400hp.
As for American cars being backwards, in the 1950's you could buy an American car with electric windows, electric seats, automatic headlights, cruise control and automatic wipers, things that didn't appear on European cars until the 80's and 90's at the earliest.
I don't need to read any "European reviews" as a) I've actually experienced the car for myself and have formed my own opinion based on that and b) the guy is asking about what car to buy IN THE US!
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