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WHEN MONTE CARLO GOES AWAY, I DO NOT WANT CAMARO TO TAKE IT'S PLACE IN NASCAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

doubt Camaro's front end will be NASCAR friendly.

 

You mean the Camaro's front end decal.

 

The more I look at the Camaro's grille....the more I see a nice chrome one for the Impala also.

 

hahahaha

I don't know if I would laugh or cry if Camaro went to NASCAR.

 

I don't think that matters anymore.........have you seen the NASCAR's this year, example: Charger. I guess they don't do factory templates anymore. Why are they still using model names on these hideous looking race cars, that have absolutely nothing in common with the street car (body panels). They should start calling them funny cars, because that is what they are looking like more and more each year.

I know they haven't used "production" based cars for a very very long time. At least up until a few years ago the body mold pretty much had all of the factory lines. But now that is all out the window.

In the LeMans Series GT class, the C6-R along with the other cars in the class are all pretty much use the factory body molds wrapped around a tubular inter-sturcture. And the C6-R still looks very much like a C6. They can tweak the areodymanics and still retain the "factory look"
I find this kind of racing a lot more interesting and any other kind that is based on "real" production cars. I don't care for NASCAR or Pro Street drag racing anymore, because now even the outer shells of the race car doesn't resemble the car its called except for the decals on it.

 

The deal with Chargers body shape is nascar's "common body" they came up with. Although not exactly the same, theyre baaad close. This eliminated the crying each year at Daytona about one make being faster than the others.

The ALMS cars start off as production cars that are converted to race cars.

Nascar has had purpose built race cars for a looong time.

2 different breeds of dog. One of which, America doesnt care much for watching and oddly enough its the one that's cars best represent what they really are. Odd huh?

 

Yes, a very long time, but up until recently you could see the difference lets say between a NASCAR Chevy Monte Carlo and a Ford Thunderbird. Now the Monte Carlo, Fusion and Charger all look-a-like, except for the decals that make out the fake headlights and grilles.

 

Speaking of the Rolex GT series, that is some good racing! I love the GTO-R; last year with Jan Magnusson (sp?) that car was smoking!

 

So basically NASCAR's heading the direction of IROC except the races are longer with more drivers. They might as well take the last step and give everyone "identical" cars.

I'm sure they'd field an Impala racer before they ever put a Camaro on that track.

 

FWD/AWD EP2 Monte would be best. Then Chevy wil have a a coupe for everyone. RWD/FWD/AWD.

 

They do have identical cars now with different stickers. Heck the motors and suspensions are about the only things they can change. I don't watch Nascar, my family does, but bring the V8 supercar series to the states and I will watch that.

 

Yup, the brands are more or less just sponsers with stickers on the cars now. It would be cool if they at least used modern Hemi and LS2 engines.

 

Now you're talking about something fun to watch. Real motors would make one feel like he/she could make the same motor.

 

That's a load of bull...not directing that at you, just directing it at the person who said that...

How similar is your's and my Grand Prix to a 4th gen Firebird? Ok, now how close would a revamped Monte Carlo be to a new Camaro?

Enough said. MC is the LAST sub $30k midsize coupe left...its sad GM wants to abandon a niche it used to dominate. The only reason the MC sells so little these days is not because the niche doesn't need to be filled, but because the damn car doesn't look much different than it did 11 model years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!