From: "BDK" <BDK@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Newsgroups: alt.autos.camaro,alt.autos.camaro.firebird
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: New Camaro
> All in all, I'm very disappointed in the new Camaro. Just flat wrong in
> so many ways. Not that I could buy one anytime soon anyways. The fantasy
> Firebird pics are better, but still not great.
Perhaps you're referring to the obvious lack of actual BUMPERS or any
chrome on the vehicle?
> #1 on my list would be a totally different interior than what appears to
> be going in it. That dash is ugly as hell, and that steering wheel needs
> to go too.
Yeah, there needs to be a nice, clean interior design...something
designed
for DRIVERS and not
MARKETING MORONS...a 36" cup holder is probably what the marketing types
want to see in the new
cars...personally, I'd like to see a usable and comfortable console.
> Please please please, no more Rally Wheels. I never "got" them. They
> just looked "I'm too cheap to buy some decent wheels" to me.
Actually, I think that if people are given the option, they'll choose
what
they prefer. Given the
look of the design, I think that a set of classic 15x8" Corvette Rally
wheels fit the car quite
nicely...and would be a FAR CHEAPER option for winter rims than spending
another $2400 (est) just to
mount your winter tires.
Of course, that only matters in about 60-70% of North America...if you
live far enough down south,
you've probably never even heard of "snow tires" before. d;o)
Another thing is that, at least in the upper part of North America, salt
is used on the roads, and
salt eats rims. Salt eats aluminum a lot worse than it eats steel, so
your
pretty little 10x the
cost aliminum mags need to be repaired or replaced a lot more often than
steel rims. With steel
rims, you peel off the rubber, take some steel wool to them (or glass bead
them), prime, paint,
reinstall the rubber, and remount your tread.
Yet another thing in favor of steel wheels is the fact that they're more
easily repaired. Most
times, a minor ding in the bead can simply be pounded back into shape, and
any iminor warping can
usually be corrected with a few new wheel weights and a proper
balancing...which takes about a
minute or two. While Aluminum mags CAN be, and are being
restored/repaired
today, it is almost
always at a cost which is higher than to completely replace equivalent
steel
wheels.
Price repairing a cracked aliminum wheel against replacing a steel
wheel...you'll easily see what
I mean.
Note: A steel spare is also a lot cheaper than an extra aluminum mag,
too!
> If I didn't have the ashtray to keep my change and spare stamps, I don't
> know where I would put them.
Yup! But an even more interesting fact...if smokers are 30-35% of the
population of North
America, what car company would deliberately ignore 30-35% of their market
when we've known for a
year or more that we're in a recession? Smart or "other than smart"? ;)
Another thing that I'd DEFINITELY like to see is the return of the FULL
SIZED SPARE!!!
Barring that, I would like to see the public execution of the moron who
invented that (*@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"compact spare" idea...every car owner should be able to give him one
whack
per wheel, until there
is nothing left but a pile of pulp, which we can then use for garden slug
food...but then, I may
feel more strongly about donut spares than you do. d;o)
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