Those of us who are against the retro movement for the next Camaro should or may be able to breathe a sigh of relief. The replacement for the Jaguar XK TOTALLY LOOKS AWESOME. Sure, it may take twice as long to pay off, but damn! It looks good!
http://www.autoweek.com/files/specia...xk/pages/1.htm

 

That could be the worst color I have ever seen on a car...

Except for maybe the "Krylon Gray" Intrepids used to come in.

 

That looks great. The body lines and proportions look really nice, along the lines of the Aston Martin coupes. A Chevy Coupe that emulated that overall design would look very nice, hints of retro, but still modern.

 

Bob Lutz made it clear some time ago that he's against "retro" styling. Save the PT Cruiser and now the HHR, his track record bears that out.

 

WTF does a Ford produced Jag have to do with the design characteristics of a new Camaro?

 

I was thinking the same thing, but others seemed to be getting it....

 

Probably just that there's a new car coming from a brand with some extremely lengthy heritage that manages to be both attractive and true to that heritage without being retro. Hopefully the Camaro will parallel that!

 

That car is a close second to the Lexus LF-A for the most boring sports car on the face of the planet.

 

That car would look so much better if it was shotened up a bit. What is the lenght on that? I hope the camro is that long (or look that long).

 

It looks like an Astin Martin.

 

My purpose of this topic was to basically say...
"If you don't end up liking the 5th gen Camaro, you might just find the new Jaguar XK-type-car a good alternative." It might be out of the price league, but some of us care more about the styling than how fast/cheap/bang-for-your-buck it is. If the 5th gen ends up full out retro, and I somehow happen to get a hold of a lot more money than I foresee making right now, I'd sure as hell spring for the Jag. I don't care if Ford owns Jaguar, as long as it doesn't have that tacky blue oval on the nose it's good enough for me.

As for it looking like an Aston Martin I agree, I think it looks like a direct copy of the AMV8 concept car. Perhaps Aston Martin and Jaguar will be doing the whole Camaro/Firebird sharing of parts. Personally, I prefer this over the Aston Martin version just because I don't like the gigant Aston grills. The front end of this needs adjusting in my opinion, but the rear is beautiful.

Besides that, I think it looks like what the 5th gen Camaro might look similar to. It has that Camaro look to its design overall; much more "Camaro" than the GTO, Solstice, etc appear to be.

 

My thoughts exactly!

 

I dunno, but from the side profile, it looks like a 3rd Gen Camaro mated with a Porsche 911.

 

I think the rear half of that car has alot of close/same lines that the SS Concept had from a couple of years ago.