There has been alot of "buzz" that GTO and Camaro will be mechanical and dimensional clones of each other....in the same way that Camaro/ Firebird or Cavalier/Sunfire were twins.

Is this a good or bad thing?

Personally, I'd like to see more differentiation. The Camaro is a Pony Car...the GTO is an intermediate. Making them identical gives us a too big Camaro or a too small GTO.

 

Hell no. People on this site wouldn't even except the Firebird as the clone of the Camaro, and they damn sure won't accept the GTO as such. Although, considering all the SUV/Truck clones between GM and Chevy, you can't tell me that GMs gives a damn.

 

i dont see your logic behind saying people wouldnt accept a Firebird as a clone of the Camaro.......they did it for 35 years already!
I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

It was one thing for Camaro and Firebird to be clones....they were both sporty pony cars aimed at the same segment.

It's another for a sporty pony car (Camaro), to be a clone of a larger coupe....about the size of a Bentley Continental GT.
http://www.edmunds.com/reviews/roadt....roadtests.1.*

I just hope GM does not completely blow this.

 

actualy, I hope the GTO isnt too much bigger then the Camaro. If Chevy goofs up on the styling, I will probably go over to Pontiac.

 

Maybe, history does repeat itself.. I would hope that they (GM) realizes that the two cars are meant for 2 different types of people. I would think with the way it used to be; that the GTO needs to be the luxury with a little extra room car and the Camaro would be the sportyier (spel?)version with a few extra go fast goodies and yes I also think they should go with the solid axle for the Camaro (be nice if it were a 12 bolt ) and leave the IRS for the GTO. But thats a different thread. Just my $0.02

 

Just a reminder to everyone, the GTO is much shorter and somewhat narrower than the former Camaro.

 

The Bentley analogy I used, was not dimensionally picked at random.

 

Where? I've never seen anything saying they would be clones other than they would both share the Zeta architecture, which allows for variations in wheelbase and width and thusly different body styles.

Actually, the Original GTO was an intermediate. This New GTO is dimensionally similar to the current Mustang, and as I pointed out previously in another thread, by definition makes it a Ponycar.

That said, I do not want to simply see a rebadged GTO/Monaro called Camaro. If that is the direction GM is pursuing, then why not call it Lumina like they already do for the middle east version?

 

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Oh come on, give me a little more than that!!!

If the Camaro is going to simply be a rebadged GTO, then I'm buying an LS2 6-speed SSR!

 

You know how GM sometimes calls the SSR a car..........

I hope they don't think that GTO is a Camaro.

 

But they already ruled that out once before, as Monaro was judged to not be a suitable Camaro replacement, but judged to be a good GTO....I'm not thinking that was coincidence....

 

Yup. Shocking, isn't it.

 

Can you put a "Don't care" button on there?