We had one of our media guys out to an Autocross. A snippet from the article, "This course was not suited to the powerful Camaro or even the 911 Targa that were competing."

I challenged him via e-mail about his statement, "As the owner of the "powerful Camaro" I'm a little disappointed with your assessment of it. In my opinion, finishing 6th in that group, in my first full season of competition, demonstrates that even a Camaro can be competitive."

His response: "Sorry if the intent of my sentence was lost: I only meant to suggest that the Camaro likes the more open layouts. Even Corey had suggested he would have preferred last week's course not be so tight."

Corey is our Autocross director, the owner and co-driver of the Miata that finished 2nd and 3rd. If he wanted a more wide-open course, for his Miata, why would the Camaro and 911 get singled out?

Here's the links to the complete article.
http://www.perldev.org/media/part1.jpg
http://www.perldev.org/media/part2.jpg

Link to the Winnipeg Autocross discussion on the article.
http://www.wpg-autox.org/cgi-bin/yab...num=1061553023

Link to the complete results for the event showing the Camaro beating 3 Mustangs, 4 BMW's including a Z8 with aftermarket suspension, the Porsche 911 and a whole whack of, by inference, more suitable lower power cars.
http://www.wpg-autox.org/events/0812.../results.shtml
BTW, the Triumph Spitfire referred to in the article is really Doug the second driver of the Miata. How it really fares is reflected in the August 26 results where the Corvette and Camaro finished 2nd and 3rd behind the S2000.

IMO this helps reinforce that the media bias against the Camaro is real, and something that will need real effort to be combated by the 5th Gen. Fortunately just like women, who need to be twice as good and men to be considered equal, it's a task I'm sure the 5th gen will not find all that difficult!!

 

I think its all tied to the conspiracy theory that Ford controls the media.

 

And all along I thought it was Ralph Nader......

In all seriousness I don't see the harm in the statement, he's giving the Camaro and Porsche 911 credit for being powerful cars. And to say they are better suited for more open courses is kinda true, unless your a talented driver, which may be the problem here. Lets face it some of those Auto X tracks are a little tight. Almost better suited for go-karts and origional Mini's than cars. There is only so much you can do with certain wheelbases and weights.

 

That's exactly what I was thinking...

Maybe you are being a bit too sensitive?

TS

 

Maybe ... but if power was the issue why not pick on the Z8

It just struck me that the only negative comment in the whole article was directed at the Camaro 1st.