Because it is so popular lately, in which form would you like to see the Firebird and/or Trans Am return?

 

I'm probably in the minority, but I'd like to see the Firebird go more upscale and become more of a Corvette type of car. Leave the GTO for cheap straight line performance in the $30k bracket. Make the Firebird lower, sleeker, more powerful, and be able to pull 1.0+g's on a skidpad. Make it $40-45k and be slightly less powerful than the Corvette. Leave it 2+2 also.

 

I don't see the GTO as being "cheap" performance, so let the Firebird be the stepping stone to the bigger cars.

Not to say that it should not get the high HP T/A packages, however.

I'd think that a better business case can be built when two divisions (or more) are sharing the same platform.


Britt

 

Use the V8, RWD formula... but do somethings differently from Camaro.

 

i know it would make a lot of people mad, but i wouldn't be surprised if they made the firebird and not the camaro, i don't like one more than the other or anything it's just that pontiac seems like it is turning into GM's performance brand (which isn't a bad thing)

 

Sorry to burst your bubble but it's not going to happen. Let's remember what came first. I can see the firebird possibly returning several years after the 5th gen camaro though.

 

My .02 is that the T/A and firebird should be there own car seperate from the camaro. It should be RWD LS1 and below $30,000 for the firebird and T/A for a couple of thousand more. pontiac entry performance bang for the buck.

 

Itd be pretty cool to have a 2007 awd TTA. That'd be my vote, although I dont know what platform they'd put it on lol.

 

If it's not going to have anything going for it other than it's a rebodied camaro then don't bother.

 

AWD....

Now that might be something that could make a 5th Gen Firebird Unique to Camaro, even if it ran on the same platform.

Plus, it'd be a "Pontiac Upgrade" kind of thing....

Even though AWD has never been a part of the F-Car history, that might be an interesting way to differentiate the Pontiac from the Chevy.

 

Blasphemy. A T/A has and should always be RWD. Let's try and stray away from a ricer's train of thought.

 

AWD rice? Go tell that to Porsche and Lambo owners. Those sure are rice

 

There is a difference between a $20-$30K car and a $100K+ car. $100K+ super cars are in a different league all together. Unless you are extremely dense, you would know that I was referring to AWD cars within the same price range as an F-body.

Muscle cars have always been about RWD-straight-line-haul-*** performance. Let the ricers have their AWD.

 

Why and how would AWD be ricey?

Also, how is it OK if it cost $100k+ but bad if it cost $20-30k?

 

Hmmm.... ....nope, just cant picture it.