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Originally Posted by 2002 Caddy
I hope you are right... everything I'm reading about the new Camaro is that it is going to weight close to 4000 pounds... A 4000 pound pony car doesn't make sense to me. My Caddy weighs 4000 pounds... I hope this is a typo.
I think they should have gone the mustang/challanger route and slapped a drop dead georgous body on a shorteded GTO platform. That would have been excellent justification to fix and improve two cars for the price of one...
Ya lots of us will wait for the Camaro... In this day and age, being first to market is NEVER a bad thing. Time is one thing that GM does not have a lot of right now. And every mustang or challenger sold is one new camaro that will never get bought.
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Weight on the Camaro is definitely a concern, but at least it weigh as much as the Challenger. According to the info I've read, the Camaro should be somewhere between the Challenger and the Mustang (likely closer to the Challenger) but under 4000 lbs (I'd guess somewhere in the mid 3800 range).
The issues with using the GTO platform are that it was already dead (Holden already had the new Zeta in the pipe), and there was no place in North America equiped to build the old GTO chassis (or the new Zeta for that matter).
Beyond that, I fear we're taking this thread too far off topic and that isn't what I intended.
With leftlane claiming the Volt might be out a year early, and reports that there might be an E-Flex vehicle with a half size battery that gets a shorter range but is cheaper, I'm hoping the GM is able to pull off a bit of a coup d'etat. That doesn't get the Beat here any sooner, but if they can get a reasonably priced high mileage vehicle out in the next year and a half then the Beat becomes a secondary issue. I'm still skeptical of the 2012 timeline mentioned by the WSJ, but I have no credible info to confirm or contradict that time frame.
Add an updated drivetrain and some up scale interior options to the Aveo and the Beat could be put off even longer. No matter what any company comes out with, it still has to fend for itself on the streets with all of the SUVs that are still out there. That's the only reason my smallest car is an old Cavalier. I had something smaller back in the late '90s but felt so close to death so many times on the highway that I dumped it as soon as I could.