Chevrolet Camaro Convertible preview
June 14, 2008 by George Skentzos
The new Chevrolet Camaro already has a place in the Australian market if GM ever decide to sell it locally, filling the void left by the Monaro’s departure.
However unlike stillborn Monaro concepts of the past, Chevrolet has revealed a sneak peek of the new pre-production Camaro Convertible.
Holden has previously tested the waters with a drop-top V8 Coupe in the form of the 2004 Holden Marilyn concept – basically a convertivle Monaro.
This presumably didn’t fair too well with the accounting department as it obviously never saw production – maybe it was the name?
Either way a big, rear-drive, V8 drop-top coupe would suit the Australian climate quite nicely.
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Not sure about this, they all go gaagaa in the begining and then its a flop and does not sell
ULP @ $2L it will flop
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Still looks good, but much less appealing than the concept. I think it’s the wheels that do it – the concept had the wheels fill the archs nicely, this one has some pretty big gap.
It’s not nice to know that they barely improved on the concept’s highly impractical side mirrors. You won’t be able to see much out of those, a mirror doesn’t do much for aesthetics anyway, they should have made them larger.
The timing is so wrong. When fuel prices are going up almost every week, the last thing most people would consider buying is a fuel guzzling car. Not unless you have a lot of disposable income would this be popular… pity, coz its a nice looking car.
1. Timing wrong in economic climate with petrol prices
2. Design looks way way way outdated and ugly USA look
3. To revisit a design from long ago can be a mega disaster
I love the look of the Camaro although the hardtop is better. Agree the timing is wrong, but really this is a bit of “toy” type of vehicle so not sure those buying one would be too petrol price sensitive.
The type of people who buy this sort of car don’t care so much about fuel prices. HSV and FPV are having record sales, and 25% of Commodores sold these days have a V8 engine. If current fuel prices are enough to sway your purchasing decision, then you shouldn’t be looking at cars in this price range in the first place.
Besides, there will be a direct injection V6 version and possibly later a turbo 4 cylinder version as well.
The Monaro drop top looks gay quite frankly. The Camaro version is a far better effort.
People will get over the fuel prices. They always do and there is no choice. Don’t forget that 8 Cyls ALWAYS drank more than 4 cyls in a comparative sort of way. For the past 30 years since the worlds first big fuel crisis, people still bought ‘performance’ cars irrespective of the amount of fuel they drank or how much it cost to fill then tank. That particular aspect of things is probably the absolutely last consideration (if at all) for a large proportion of people buying a vehicle such as this.
This productionised Camaro lacks the crispness of the concept cars.
I actually quite liked the Convertible Monaro Concept Crar.
I doubt many will buy this as a commuter car. The price of petrol for a weekend car is largely irrelevant. eg. Say you do 10K per year and get 18L/100, its still only $3600 a year.
They said the Hummer would not sell, yet they sell approximatly 100 of them a month. Yeah fuel expensive but the consumer buying this vehicle will not care so much. For the weekend, fine weather show off!
FFS, re-read your sh1t before posting it…
“convertivle” … and you review cars ?
with regard to family cars yes people don’t want fuel guzzlers, however this isn’t a family car, its a sports car. Fact is the fuel price has been rising for quite a while now, yet Holden V8 sales are at their highest ever levels. Sales of sports cars generally are still very strong. Remember, people who buy comaro’s generally aren’t on struggle street, they are reasonably wealthy people. And they don’t buy them as a daily driver either, therefore fuel economy just isn’t a concern for the comaro’s intended market. It’s the same as how HSV and FPV sales are still strong, fuel economy is just not something that concerns this particular market of consumers.