Waht neat things has Chevy got planned for the Camaro in the next year in sneek peeks

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Oct 22, 2007 | 09:50 PM

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diarmadhi

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Originally Posted by azfan

I wished they'd ship the show car out here to Phoenix for the Arizona auto show in november!

I second that notion!

Oct 22, 2007 | 09:53 PM

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OutsiderIROC-Z

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Hopefully stuff will start coming to the surface soon...

Oct 23, 2007 | 07:24 AM

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FS3800

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do we know for sure that what was brought out was wearing production sheet metal? or is it just a mule?

Oct 23, 2007 | 04:55 PM

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do we know for sure that what was brought out was wearing production sheet metal? or is it just a mule?

Most of what you see is what it is.

The secerets are less weight, more carbon fiber, more HP, bigger ceramic brakes and tires. This is a car more for performance than exotic.

Keep in mind most cars that will run with this are all over $200,000 - $600,000 more than this will cost.

Oct 28, 2007 | 12:02 PM

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detltu

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Simple answer: Engineers wanted to get some feedback and fine tuning done.

Laguna Seca is one of America's most difficult speedways, and it has a unique and rather nasty corkscrew coming off of a curve starting down the back streach that puts quite a demand on brakes & suspension at the same time, and is the perfect place to get a grip (unintentional pun) on steering feedback and precision.

There was no press or VIP ride-along as there was when Chrysler had their ME-412 mule out there, or when Ford had ther GT. This was simply GM taking the thing off a trailer, having their driver run 2 laps, and loading the thing back in the trailer.

Because the car was out, there were people who were tipped off to come down and were free to snap pictures or shoot film. Same thing happens whenever any car under development comes to a race track (which are by no means highly secured enviroments or staffed by guards the way Automotive test facilities are). I've had quite a few tip offs myself that "I might want to be at a certain place at a certain time" which happened to be a car undergoing a test lap, or a realworld test route, or a publicity shot at a secret location. And I'm certain I'm not the only one here who has.

But, no, it wasn't designed as a publicity event. There was actually a concrete reason Corvette did a couple of laps at Laguna Seca.

I just don't see how you can say that. It's like taking the Vette to the streets around Daytona on Sunday before the 500 to get some real world testing in. It's just to public and the testing was too limited. I think they had plenty of other days they could have gotten to LS to rip off a few laps without so many people around.

Oct 28, 2007 | 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by hyperv6

I know Chevy spanked Chysler at the Challanger intro on Woodward. The drive by with the 2010 on the truck was just a great move.

Now yesterday the new ZR-1 not yet intro'ed comes off the transporter and rips off some fast laps at Laguna Seca on a American Lemans weekend. There are some cool videos on the web and a lot of cool pix from the crowd at the track. This was one cool way to sneak a good look to the public.

Chevy seems to be on a roll in some cool marketing moves what could they have planned for the Camaro in the next year?

Any good ideas on what Chevy could so for this car?

Do you refer to the Camaro when you say "this car"?

I'm "guessing" that you get the concept Camaro into a summer blockbuster movie...