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Originally Posted by Aki
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.
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.
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Incorrect. Here is a graph comparing weights of V-8 Camaros from each model year. These stats are only for the small-block V8 versions, and do not include versions of the Camaro sold with the extremely heavy big-block V8s (those were 200-300 pounds heavier)
The original camaro weighed about the same as an RX-8. In fact, the "bloated" reputation of the Camaro was almost entirely earned in the 1970s (when the big-block V8 was at it's most popular). One of my favorite things to note about it is an un-released statistic from GM itself: The last few models years of the 4th gen z/28 Camaro were faster around GM's proving grounds than the C5 Corvette. GM didn't release the info for obvious reasons..
There's a strong push in the Camaro community right now for a "true" Z/28 successor. The original Z/28 was an homoglomation special...designed and released solely to allow the Camaro to compete in a certain race series. It had a completely different 7000+ RPM V-8, weighed much less than normal, and had a road-race tuned suspension with different components. The Z/28 name became over-used after that....it should have stayed a special edition, like the BOSS mustang. GM is currently working on a Camaro alternative to the Ford BOSS mustang...and it's supposedly going to be called the Z/28. (the new, supercharged Camaro was named the ZL-1 because the Z/28 name was being reserved for a special edition as GM knew about what Ford was doing with the new BOSS)
As you can see, things quickly get complicated when discussing things like this. It's going to cause a major issue when the final stats for the FT-86 are released, and even more controversy when people get to drive it....regardless of whether it's "good" or "bad."