Every Camaro I see on the way to work is that gold color. Even SS Camaros! I don't get it. I see so many in that color compared to every other color.

Californians are wierd.

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I understand that all the different composite plastic panels combined with the steel quarter panels makes creating new color choices a nightmare.

It's difficult to get any two panels the same shade of a color.

Remember "hugger orange" from a couple of years ago?

 

Yes. I think the flex-agent that is added for the plastic panels can make color-match more difficult.

The thing that confuses me a bit is that what's the difference between that, and color matching the metal body panels to the plastic front and back caps on 3rd gens?

 

Darth, I believe that the problem is that the front and rear endcaps are 1 kind of plastic, the front fenders another, the doors still another and of course the quarter panels are metal.

 

I believe you are correct.

The thing is, though, while I certainly can understand a 3rd material complicating matters, I'd think they could still manage.

Saturn has been using the flexible body panels for years, so that could be a source of info...

BTW, I really LOVE the flexable dent resistant panels. They are a great feature for keeping dents and dings away.

They also are supposedly much cheaper to retool for styling changes... something that was trumpeted when the 4th gen debuted, and then was never taken advantage of.

 

It's interesting that several years after they said that...I remember reading a story where GM said that if they had revised the way that their steel stamping tooling was designed ....that steel panels would have been cheaper and easier to manufacture than the plastic ones.


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In other words, they simply didn't want to spend the money for a redesign.

 

And what do you think that their opinion on two tone black roofs would be?