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Z45 Senior Enthusiast

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Rick Hendrick driving the 1st Camaro off the line today........it only cost him $350,000 winning bid at BJ.

 

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tobias Senior Enthusiast

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Rick Hendrick driving the 1st Camaro off the line today........it only cost him $350,000 winning bid at BJ.

 

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Well, I don't know how there are pictures of hundreds of these stockpiled in parking lots but somehow there are yet this IS being reported as the first Camaro off the production lines in Oshawa.

 

Odd.

Wingnut Senior Enthusiast

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That's not too shabby. Now, let's see it actually hit those numbers and that will be something. :thumbs:

 

I don't see why it wouldn't hit those numbers. My GTO regularly hits over 25 in highway driving. That's in line with what they're saying for the big motored Camaro. The 29 mpg is for the V6 model.

P71_CrownVic Senior Enthusiast

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That's not too shabby. Now, let's see it actually hit those numbers and that will be something. :thumbs:

 

Those are the official EPA numbers...or were you talking about the performance numbers mentioned?

Ryan00TJ Enthusiast

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MMMmmmmmm. I sold my 02 SS just in time. I'm going to let someone else take the $10K hit and get one in a year for a little less. GM put some very nice features and engines in this platform, but its not going to be a volume seller that makes them money which they need right now. IMHO, they are going to go the way of the 4th Gen Fbody's. Strong sales the 1st year and steady decline thereafter until they nixt the platform. God I hope I am wrong. As to the EPA ratings, I don't see why not. My SS made 420rwhp which was 115rwhp more than stock and still turned 26-28mpg on highway trips @ 75 mph with the T56 and 3.42 gearing. City driving, stop and go is what put me in the 13-15 range.

tobias Senior Enthusiast

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That's not too shabby. Now, let's see it actually hit those numbers and that will be something. :thumbs:

 

I don't see why it wouldn't hit those numbers. My GTO regularly hits over 25 in highway driving. That's in line with what they're saying for the big motored Camaro. The 29 mpg is for the V6 model.

 

 

I've never had a vehicle consistently hit the mileage estimates. Maybe that has a lot to do with my particular driving style but my Sierra does not get 14/20 and never did. 12.5/18.5 is about as good as it gets with the stock 17's.

 

Don't get me wrong, I hope it does, it just seems like the estimates are always a tad high.

geektoad Senior Enthusiast

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My '98 Camaro with the T56 was the only car I've ever done better than the EPA estimates. I was able to milk 29-31 out of it when it was close to stock. The .5 overdrive in that era T56 really worked wonders cruising at speed. If i remember correctly, I think I was only turning 1900ish RPM @ 75 MPH.

Z45 Senior Enthusiast

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Rick Hendrick driving the 1st Camaro off the line today........it only cost him $350,000 winning bid at BJ.

 

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Well, I don't know how there are pictures of hundreds of these stockpiled in parking lots but somehow there are yet this IS being reported as the first Camaro off the production lines in Oshawa.

 

Odd.

 

 

 

The other ones are "Captured Test Fleet" cars. The ones in production are 2010 models so the test cars may be 2009 models or they have a special VIN and will never be sold.

 

First of all as part of the development program we typically have small numbers of vehicles that we put out in the hands of people that drive them on a daily basis. That’s a part of our development program that occurs prior to production. We call that a “captured test fleet”. Captured meaning we know where the cars are and we know who the drivers are, and test fleet because the cars aren’t in production yet. We use the versions that we build at the tail end of the development cycle to really put them out there on a daily basis to get better understanding of whats going on with the vehicles.

 

Typically we put these in the hands of GM folks, when we do it prior to the start of production; employees, people in the technical community, people who work in the plants, manufacturing, etc.

 

The idea is to put those with a small group of peole where you can get rapid feedback on what’s going on. Now thats the way we’ve done it for our regular production programs.

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