Interior Materials

NOS2006 · 08-06-2008, 09:15 AM

Disciples: do you remember the materials in the interior such as the IP (plastic, vinyl/TPO, PUR, ...?), door panels (vinyl, leather, alcantra, ...?), seats/seat inserts/seat trim along the edge, and anywhere else?

NOS2006 · 01-15-2009, 08:22 AM

Okay, I'm really disappointed. I was at the autoshow yesterday and was able to sit in the Camaro. One of the biggest thing I've been worried about are the materials of the interior. Well, I sat inside, felt the door panel and the instrument panel and they were both very hard plastic. I'm hoping this is just a very very pre-production car because that's even worse than the vinyl-covered dash of the 4th Gens. Very unappealing and I'm very unhappy if that crap makes production.

If anybody that's been either inside the Camaro or on the design/engineering team can attest to different, please make me a happier man.

Dragoneye · 01-15-2009, 03:41 PM

Interior Materials are supposed to be smilar to what's currently inside the Impala.

NOS2006 · 01-15-2009, 03:55 PM

If that's true, then there better be an aftermarket company doing packages to wrap the interior in leather or something. The production interior is unacceptable for a car so nice.

97z28/m6 · 01-20-2009, 07:08 PM

thats been my fear.

LT1 PWRD · 01-21-2009, 02:46 AM

Yeah, i wasn't really impressed with the interior either. I guess they had to cut cost somewhere.

r_west · 01-21-2009, 06:15 PM

If that's the case and it is as bad as people are mentioning, then I'm really disappointed. It will represent another tragically flawed Fbody. The interior was one of the main reasons I sold my 4th gen.

I don't expect an interior that rivals an Audi in my Fbody. Heck, GM doesn't do that with the Corvette which is at a higher price point.

At the same time, it ought to be on par with what's in my new Dodge products. If it's comparable, then that's fine with me. My 05 Dakota is extremely comfortable on long trips.

JeremyNYR · 01-22-2009, 12:58 PM

It's kinda early to draw conclusions about the fit and finish of the production interior. I don't believe any physical examples of the final production interior have been revealed yet for people to see and touch in person.

LT1 PWRD · 01-22-2009, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by JeremyNYR

It's kinda early to draw conclusions about the fit and finish of the production interior. I don't believe any physical examples of the final production interior have been revealed yet for people to see and touch in person.

The interiors of the Camaros that I have sat in were production saleable units.

I just want to clarify that although the plastics were hard to the touch, everything fits together quite well. It's a vast improvement over the 4th Gen but doesn't feel as good as a Malibu

NOS2006 · 02-03-2009, 04:02 PM

Some people were talking about "grained" interiors going into the show Camaros in the NAIAS thread. Was the red NAIAS Camaro a production grain interior?

FWIW, I say "grained" because technically everything has a grain to it, it's just that the grain can differ. I doubt you'll ever again see an interior piece w/out a grain to it. Even painted interior panels have a "technical grain" for the paint to adhere better.

SSPORT10 · 02-16-2009, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by cmg06s

I don't understand how a 35k car can have a worse interior than my moms 19k Malibu? Does GM just assume camaro fans dont care?

If you have not seen the interior in person, then you shouldn't make a judegment like this. I have only seen tons of pics of this car and was kind on the fence about the interior, but after seeing the interior in person this weekend (a few feet away behind a roped off area), I have absolutely no reservations about the interior or anything else. You can tell just by looking at it in person that it is right up there with the rest of GM's recent great interiors that they have been building the past few years ('09 CTS, '09 Malibu, '09 Enclave, etc...).

97z28/m6 · 02-21-2009, 11:35 PM

no way you can compare the CTS to the camaro.

HuJass · 02-22-2009, 11:09 AM

It's not as bad as some of you are saying. Would it have been nice to be more CTS-like? Absolutely. But that would have driven the price up.
It's not hard plastic. There is some padding. The Colorado has hard plastic and the Camaro is nowhere near that.
I would say the interior materials are more inline with the GMC Acadia.

97z28/m6 · 02-22-2009, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by HuJass

It's not hard plastic.

its ALL hard plastic except the arm rests. and the plastic looks cheap for what they are asking.

HuJass · 02-22-2009, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by 97z28/m6

its ALL hard plastic except the arm rests. and the plastic looks cheap for what they are asking.

Maybe you were looking at a pre-pro.

The door panels & dash on the one I touched at Indy had some give to it; there was some padding there. Not much, but it wasn't hard. The binnacles around the gauges might be hard, I can't remember.
And I think the surfaces had like a pebble graining to it, IIRC.