Z/28 confirmed

Yeah, a buddy of mine had a 79 Corvette in highschool that we rebuilt. I always thought it was a pile of junk. LOL It was heavy and slow.
 
The Z/28 is NOT confirmed yet by GM! Maybe by Motortrend it is..LOL



Partially Deaf..Are you a member over at Camaro5? My name over there is

"NAHURRY"..I love that site!
 
Jakerooni said:
Ehhh I used to design for GM. and I quit there right when they started the talks with Canada about getting the Camaro back up and running... IMO they missed the boat with this whole "Let's bring Retro Back" If the Camaro was the first to hit the market it would've done well I think. But it's the very last to hit the market (As usual with anything GM does) the Mustang, Charger, and Challanger have already grabbed that retro crowd for the most part. There's a couple of die hards here and there. But I don't think there's enough out there to sustain the 300,000 units a year this line needs to produce. I'll personally be very impressed if the camaro is even still around in a few years. They killed it off for a reason.. THat reason is still alive and well today Nothing has changed. And I have no idea why they thought it would. To late to save it I say.
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Are you serious? ...Talk about hater's.:wow:
 
camaroDan said:
The Z/28 is NOT confirmed yet by GM! Maybe by Motortrend it is..LOL



Partially Deaf..Are you a member over at Camaro5? My name over there is

"NAHURRY"..I love that site!
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Haha, yes I am on Camaro5.



My name is UCI CamaroFan on there. Me and some of the socal people met up with fbodfather earlier this year and he signed our cars. it was pretty badass.
 
gofast908z said:
Their sales figures on the camaro seem to have a different viewpoint.
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Every 'new' or 'reintroduced' car has the initial spike in sales for about the first 2yrs. Lets see if it can hang on.
 
SpoiledMan said:
Show me a muscle car from 1978 to 1989. There was nothing fast during that period. It may have had a V8 but it was gutless during that time period.
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They still came back, hence not dead.



And as far as fast? How about the Sledgehammer?
 
Oh they were dead. Dead enough to have to be reinvented. With CAFE numbers going up, it's just going to get every so much more difficult to get big numbers and fuel economy.



Sledgehammer was mass produced off of what assembly line?
 
SpoiledMan said:
Oh they were dead. Dead enough to have to be reinvented. With CAFE numbers going up, it's just going to get every so much more difficult to get big numbers and fuel economy.



Sledgehammer was mass produced off of what assembly line?
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Reinvention =/= dead. Just because you find other ways of doing things doesn't mean it's dead. Dark ages? Maybe. But there will always be a bit of a lull when new standards come out. Then, once the engineers figure out how to do it, power and performance have come back again. Are these cars as fast as the ones now? Of course not. But very rarely does it work out differently.



How about the GN/GNX? TTA? RX-7 Turbo II? Omni GLH? The GNs were well into the 13s. The TTA could keep up with most anything made in the 60s or 70s bone stock. The Omni could hit mid-14s, which is still pretty respectable. Same with the Turbo II.



CAFE standards haven't changed in 17 years (which, in truth, they are the same as 1985). It's about time they did. The big problem isn't the performance cars, its the mass-volume sedans. Increase the numbers for those, and there will be plenty of room for more power from the performance coupes. Hell, the V6s now get 300hp. Who would have guessed that 15 years ago?
 
By definition, those aren't muscle cars. Big engine in small body car. The Omni/GLH miss by there were no muscle cars in the period. Of course it all started again in '90 with the Japanese TT cars and Corvette reworking.
 
SpoiledMan said:
By definition, those aren't muscle cars. Big engine in small body car. The Omni/GLH miss by there were no muscle cars in the period. Of course it all started again in '90 with the Japanese TT cars and Corvette reworking.
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I never limited my argument to musclecars. Sorry if you did.
 
SonicBlue05GT said:
Why in the world would they make the Z28 a step above the SS?



I don't see that happening.
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Where else would it go? A step above the V6 with a smaller motor than the SS? That wouldn't make any sense.



The work is already done, it will be ahead of the SS. I just don't get why so many people hang on the nuts of the SS. Its not THAT special of a badge.
 
gofast908z said:
Where else would it go? A step above the V6 with a smaller motor than the SS? That wouldn't make any sense.



The work is already done, it will be ahead of the SS. I just don't get why so many people hang on the nuts of the SS. Its not THAT special of a badge.
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Except there's complete historical precedence for it. Z/28 - track, SS - street and strip.
 
SonicBlue05GT said:
Why in the world would they make the Z28 a step above the SS?



I don't see that happening.
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because an impala can be an SS, a trailblazer can be an SS, a silverado can be an SS, a monte carlo can be an SS.......a chevelle was an SS.........................BUT



only a camaro can be a Z/28 :nana:
 
CocheseUGA said:
Except there's complete historical precedence for it. Z/28 - track, SS - street and strip.
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Not everything stays the same. Seriously, who freaking wants to argue over a badge?!? Who cares! The Z28 will be awesome.
 
gofast908z said:
Not everything stays the same. Seriously, who freaking wants to argue over a badge?!? Who cares! The Z28 will be awesome.
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It's important because it's probably going to be priced out of range of most people. The SS was always the fat cat performance marque along the Chevrolet line. Now, it will be the Z/28 - which goes against everything the RPO that it's named after stood for: affordable track performance for the everyman.



Is it important? No. (Well, to me it is) Is it disappointing? Absolutely.
 
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