Camaro SS review soon

Our latest test car is the new Camaro SS. Video review coming soon.

Please promise there won't be any rear tires left by the time you give it back.

Rockin'.

I'm too much of a Ford guy to ever actually admit to liking one, though, hahahaha.

I'll be interested to see if you guys think the sight lines are as bad as I found them to be in my recent Camaro rental car. I could not believe how bad they were.

Okay, review is up: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/new-cars/2010-37-camaro-2ss-coupe/

ignorant wrote:

Have you ever driven a camaro or is your stereotype based strictly upon what others say about it?

plance1 wrote: Have you ever driven a camaro or is your stereotype based strictly upon what others say about it?

I drove the new dumptruck version of the Camaro and it resembles the original only in it's name. It's an insult to the whole pony car genre, but then so are the Mustang and the Challenger. The review asked for a 7/8 scale version. The heck with 7/8 scale go all the way to 3/4 and it would be great.

plance1 wrote:

ignorant wrote:

Have you ever driven a camaro or is your stereotype based strictly upon what others say about it?

Dear man with no sense of humor...

A friend in college had a 97 30th anniversary edition and it was a helluva fast car... The interior was painfully cheap. 5th gear blew out of the 6spd, but it made a joyous racket when pinned. I once raced him home from the super market in my toyota pickup. I had stock gears and 33" tires. It was a painfully slow truck. He beat me right up until the first speed bump in our apartment complex. the speed bumps were quite high and he had to cross them diagonally and at a sub snails pace because his subframe connectors would scrape the tops of the bumps. (by scrape I mean remove the tops of the speed bumps with all the delicacy of a mountain top removal coal mine in WV... ) But my crappy 104hp toyota could take the speed bumps at 50mph and I won...

ignorant wrote:

That guy is such a man he just crapped out a small boy.

jg

JG Pasterjak wrote:

ignorant wrote:

That guy is such a man he just crapped out a small boy. jg

He almost looks like Per.

Hey guys, it's a TR6060, not a TR606

EDIT: Looks like you caught/fixed it

I bought a new Camaro SS back in May. I got an early delivery black/black 2SS 6spd/426hp car and I have to say...

While I found it cool to look at, and it was fast, it really was no fun to drive at all. The visibility was terrible and the car really felt as heavy as it was. In terms of quality, it was worlds better than the GM cars of the 80's & early 90's that I remember.

When a German client of mine offered me substantially more for my Camaro than the sticker price I had paid, I happily loaded it on the first east-bound boat I could. Driving my Camaro made me really appreciate my slow and cheap old 97 Boxster a lot more.

JG Pasterjak wrote:

ignorant wrote:

That guy is such a man he just crapped out a small boy. jg

ROTFLMAO!

Dead Milkmen's Bitchin' Camaro seems appropriate here. The mullet-headed, banana-hammock-wearin', child-crappin' pic is just wrong.

Random Camaro pic:

that totally looks like PER.

we took 2 brand new SSs to the drag strip.

two brand new SSs went home with us on the trailer.

tranny output shaft busted on both. crazy!

Wonder what the MTBF is. If it is like other chevy products.....about 12 days

M030 wrote: When a German client of mine offered me substantially more for my Camaro than the sticker price I had paid, I happily loaded it on the first east-bound boat I could. Driving my Camaro made me really appreciate my slow and cheap old 97 Boxster a lot more.

Speaking of high performance American cars in Europe, I never see them listed on European manufacturer web pages. Can cars like the Mustang be purchased new through the dealer network, or is there a different method to acquiring them?

Mitchell,

A large part of my business centers around shipping American high performance cars to Europe (Germany in particular).

While some American performance cars are offered there (Corvette and Viper for sure), many of them aren't; they definitely don't get Camaros, Mustangs or Challengers directly from the manufacturers.

I offer up to the GRM gods, the truck mullet: Notice the "rear cab spoiler thingy". They're just as outdated as a real mullet. There was a family that had all sons I went to high school with and every single one of them in high school all had those stupid things on their trucks and 3 out of 4 of them had mullets. It seems fitting to me to call that thing then a "truck mullet"

truck mullet > real mullet

MitchellC wrote: Speaking of high performance American cars in Europe, I never see them listed on European manufacturer web pages. Can cars like the Mustang be purchased new through the dealer network, or is there a different method to acquiring them?

Very few are available via any sort of main dealer network in the UK or Germany. Switzerland is different (they have had a large presence of American cars since the 60s/70s IIRC). Most American cars in the UK or Germany come in via specialist importers outside the main dealer network.

the first car I drove was a 71 Firebird.. so I WANT to like this car.. but like the Challenger, I just can't. It just feels to me that fiatsler and GM are chasing after the Mustang again. While they may have surpassed it in many ways, Ford has had plenty of years to refine their pony car.. and it shows.

If I strike unobtainium on my little parcel of gravel it will be my single goal to purchase one of each of the following cars: 2010 Mustang, 2010 Challenger, 2010 Camaro and let them all fight it out on my 4.5 mile 24 turn driveway.

ignorant wrote:

plance1 wrote:

ignorant wrote:

Have you ever driven a camaro or is your stereotype based strictly upon what others say about it?

Dear man with no sense of humor... A friend in college had a 97 30th anniversary edition and it was a helluva fast car... The interior was painfully cheap. 5th gear blew out of the 6spd, but it made a joyous racket when pinned. I once raced him home from the super market in my toyota pickup. I had stock gears and 33" tires. It was a painfully slow truck. He beat me right up until the first speed bump in our apartment complex. the speed bumps were quite high and he had to cross them diagonally and at a sub snails pace because his subframe connectors would scrape the tops of the bumps. (by scrape I mean remove the tops of the speed bumps with all the delicacy of a mountain top removal coal mine in WV... ) But my crappy 104hp toyota could take the speed bumps at 50mph and I won... So your judging the car by how well it takes speed bumps?????????? No, I have a sense of humor and I thought your photo was funny, its just that I wonder how people draw their conclusions and in your case you're comparing a lowered car with a lifted (oversize tires) truck.

So your judging the car by how well it takes speed bumps?????????? No, I have a sense of humor and I thought your photo was funny, its just that I wonder sometimes how people draw their conclusions and in your case you're comparing a lowered car with a lifted (oversize tires) truck. In a lot of cases I see or hear people make judgements before they even have had first hand experience.