Forum Overview :: Rants :: GM finally announces Camaro rebirth possibility.

[quote name="Fussbett"][quote name="Fussbett"][quote name="Fussbett"]I forgot that I didn't mention Chevrolet's hilarious role in the muscle car resurgence: Cancelling the Camaro! GM arrived at the conclusion that this ugly piece of shit they call a Camaro is just not viable anymore and geez, maybe people don't want muscle cars *shoulder shrug*. Meanwhile the previous Mustangs flew out of the dealer showrooms thanks to being just dumb looking instead of "totally fucking ridiculous". So the aftermath of this is Camaro fans signing petitions, of course, and [mullet joke], and it's all just sad. Sad like when the 19-year-old who set the Camaro world on fire with his concept renderings that became so believed and popular, magazines eventually started <a href="http://www.popularhotrodding.com/features/0309phr_5camaro/" target="ert">interviewing GM engineers about the design's feasibility</a>. <img src="http://popularhotrodding.com/features/0309phr-5camaro05_z.jpg"></img>[/quote] <a href="http://www.roadandtrack.com/article.asp?section_id=9&article_id=3104" target="chall"><h2>Camaro still MIA</h2></a> <a href="http://www.roadandtrack.com/assets/image/2005/Q4/123020051743514869.jpg"><img src="http://www.roadandtrack.com/assets/image/2005/Q4/123020051743514869.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.roadandtrack.com/assets/image/2005/Q4/123020051743520464.jpg"><img src="http://www.roadandtrack.com/assets/image/2005/Q4/123020051743520464.jpg"></a>[/quote] GM shrugs and says "hey, maybe we'll do that too... someday". <a href="http://automobilemag.com/auto_shows/naias_2006/0602_camaro_ofsk_02_900.jpg"><img src="http://automobilemag.com/auto_shows/naias_2006/0602_camaro_ofsk_02_900.jpg"></a> In other car news, DaimlerChrysler announces profits up 3.8% this year on the strength of great Benz, Chrysler and Dodge sales. <a href="http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2006/01/08/afx2435345.html" target="frobes">Honda wins car of the year for the Civic and truck of the year for whatever fucking truck they have</a>. They probably don't even have a truck, and the judges just gave the award to Honda's biggest car, after being so disgusted with the American non-entries. In other bringing-back-the-past news, Lamborghini announces the Miura concept car on the 40th annivesary of the Mirua's debut. <a href="http://prn.newscom.com/cgi-bin/pub/s?f=PRN/prnpub&p1=20060106/LAF002-c&xtag=PRN-prnphotos-51306&redir=preview&tr=1&row=1" target="zz">ZZ Top and Jay Leno were there</a>! <a href="http://automobilemag.com/auto_shows/naias_2006/0602_miura_ss_03_900.jpg" target="miura"><img src="http://automobilemag.com/auto_shows/naias_2006/0602_miura_ss_03_900.jpg"></a>[/quote]