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Originally Posted by Dimman
80's weren't exactly a shining example of automotive excellence for any manufacturer...
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Think lots great cars came out of the 80s. The FJ60 Land Cruiser was awesome. E30 M3, 89 Nissan Skyline R32 GTR, Nissan U12 Bluebird SSS Atessa, Honda CRX Si, Toyota Hilux, naming some off the top of my head.
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Originally Posted by Maxim
An example of this: The new Camaro. It handles, accelerates, and brakes better than any Camaro in the past. It handily outperforms every previous-gen Camaro on every objective measure.
But visit a Camaro forum and you can see there's a massive divide in opinion about the car. It's overweight. Some people have latched on to this fact and are extremely disappointed with the vehicle.
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But "overweight" would be a ridiculous criticism to have for the Camaro when comparing it with the original. The new Camaro is largely inspired from the 1969 Camaro, which weighed in at 3700 lbs--pretty much the same as the newest one. Camaro was never light from its inception. It didn't all of sudden bloat up for the newest one.