Comments on: Camaro outsells Mustang – first time since ‘93

By: jason the american

jason the american — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:35:05 +0000

The 80s Mustangs may haven not been the best looking but they are much better than the Mustang II of the 70s. Also the 80s Mustang makes a great project car because they are cheap, light, and you can find tons of aftermarket parts. My cousin has an 88 Mustang he is working on right now, putting a 351 Cleveland in it.

By: jon

jon — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:50:23 +0000

Well they drove like crap and they weren`t a scratch on the Falcon and they weren`t great cars. So I`m sure you could imagine how bad they were and still are.

By: Snake

Snake — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:00:19 +0000

Jon,thanks for agree-ing with me, it is so refreshing to have a positive comment.
I didn’t comment on the drive of these ugly things as I have never been in one, but they definitely looked awful.
I reckon they would have taken ages to win back confidence (ford ).

By: jon

jon — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:58:08 +0000

Snake
“I must comment that some of the Mustangs of the 80’s era were awful to look at”, I agree and they were all round pretty awful cars too.

By: realcars

realcars — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:15:00 +0000

One of each from the land of the free please.

By: Snake

Snake — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:22:10 +0000

Love this car, great design.
I must comment that some of the Mustangs of the 80’s era were awful to look at.

By: jason the american

jason the american — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:34:45 +0000

The only reason the Camaro won this sales battle was because the car is new and had a lot of pre orders. I figure the yearly sales will be a different story though. I figured that 1993 was the last time the Camaro won the sales battle because Ford still made the old Fox Body cars that year and the Camaro was all new. The Mustang was restyled in 94. As far as the Challenger goes I’ve seen a few one the road but don’t know how well they are actually doing. The Challenger is way too heavy though, around 4,000 pounds if I’m not mistaken.

By: Bavarian Missile®™

Bavarian Missile®™ — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:04:48 +0000

hahaha yeah but they did ,what a looker

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

Never mind Will you can only hope Skoda make a Muscle Car then you “WILL” be a happy boy :)

By: Will

Will — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:57:09 +0000

Sadder that General Motors crushed the EV-1. Had they actually developed them General Motors might actually exist today as an independent automotive manufacturer.

By: nobody

nobody — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:24:36 +0000

Well done to the Camaro. I’m still a Mustang man though! Can’t wait to see the new one and can’t wait til they put that engine into the FPV!

By: Bavarian Missile®™

Bavarian Missile®™ — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:24:11 +0000

What an excited Grand-father you must have then Will!

By: Will

Will — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:19:00 +0000

Both are products from an Industry geared to my grand-father. How sad.

By: Bavarian Missile®™

Bavarian Missile®™ — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:56:43 +0000

BK ,I heard FPV outsold HSV in May. Not sure what happened in June yet.

Best Stang available still currently,GT500KR Supersnake . Expensive landed and converted but an awesome piece of US Muscle Car.

Then I hear the Z28 may be reappearing in 2011 ,worth the wait ? I think so!

By: Shak

Shak — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:29:31 +0000

Dont get your Hopes up BK. The Falcon doesnt have a competitor for the Sportwagon and that is cutting a huge chunk of their sales.

By: Krish

Krish — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:15:14 +0000

LOL, well at least something is going right for GM. For how long is anyones guess…

By: Jake02

Jake02 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:59:34 +0000

$500 isn’t really that much…that’s only a pair of headlamp protectors on a Peugeot!

Also, the US gvt is apparently mandating orange indicators (instead of red) on cars. Bout bloody time they caught up with the ReST of the world in at least one thing!

By: Frontman

Frontman — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:59:30 +0000

(LOL, Just new Toyota had to come up here somewhere, Damn spam word LOL) :-)
Back on topic though, I owuld normally expect the kid on the block to outsell it’s opposition for the first few months, (well done to GM on this BTW) however lets see how it is selling 4 months from now. That is when you get true indications of market acceptance.

By: jbot

jbot — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:46:17 +0000

people paying as much as $500 over the ticket price!? these americans are crazy!!

By: FPV GTHO

FPV GTHO — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:49:58 +0000

The Mustang’s we recieved were probably close to about twice as much as they shouldve been sold for given their equivalent price in America. Considering we were doing the conversion work, the smaller economy of sale, importing costs and a few other things, a locally built Mustang Cobra couldve sold for a few grand less than an XR8.

No doubt GM will be pleased the new Camaro is outselling the Mustang, but i’m sure Ford arent losing too much sleep considering the small gap and the carryover engines that should make way next year for the Duratec and Coyote.

By: charles

charles — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:03:22 +0000

Well after experiencing the crap they sent over here I`m not sure why so many people bought them Wheelnut, but ask your mum she usually knows everything or someone that does LOL.