Ponyryd
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Exactly, not to mention it will always be worth money due to the exclusivity of it.
2014 Z/28 pricing
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Exactly, not to mention it will always be worth money due to the exclusivity of it.
Chris Hansen
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I'll keep my faster GT500 and enjoy my AC and stereo.
sardeanie
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Count me out. I'm a straight line knuckle dragger. Only turns I make is into gas stations.
4 cam tbird
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This was never intended to be a high volume car. Even at 500 units I'm pretty sure it is still the highest volume car to ever come with those multimatic dampers. I'm not sure what multimatic's production capacity is but I'm going to bet it is pretty low.
4 cam tbird
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http://www.multimatic.com/news/release.php?release=56
So the only other production application was a car they made 77 of, and then they've been used in a bunch of race cars. There's no way they can support building enough of those things for 5000 cars a year. It's probably a stretch for them to keep up for the Z28 and whatever small number of those will be built.
So the only other production application was a car they made 77 of, and then they've been used in a bunch of race cars. There's no way they can support building enough of those things for 5000 cars a year. It's probably a stretch for them to keep up for the Z28 and whatever small number of those will be built.
Dirtyrat
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I think its a decent price fro the racer who is in the market for something like this. Its pretty expensive for the causal shopper and car enthusiast who make up the majority of this site. If youre into late model camaros, dont forget about the 2014 1LE. It looks quite a bit like a Z/28 and has posted better track times than the outgoing Boss 302.
Personally for the extra money,
I wonder what a modded (Bolt on LS3) in a 1LE package would be like.
The multimatic is great but how many people can actually DRIVE a car like that appropriatly to make it faster.....
You need to have some serious experience behind the wheel.
Overall though VERY cool car but a bit pricey....
I wonder what a modded (Bolt on LS3) in a 1LE package would be like.
The multimatic is great but how many people can actually DRIVE a car like that appropriatly to make it faster.....
You need to have some serious experience behind the wheel.
Overall though VERY cool car but a bit pricey....
cjmatt
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the asking price is all due to the shocks and carbon brakes. Youve got $10k wrapped up there in parts alone. Sure you could mod a 1LE and make your own, but its nowhere near as collectible. none of these buyers are buying them to race. Anyone really into racing is going to build their own car. I think its cool, but to me its personally doing too much polishing to a turd. if i bought one id feel the same regret i did when I built my LT1 in the early 2000s right before the LS got cheap to mod...$75k for any camaro is a joke.
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Captain Slow
That's what is kind of funny about this whole thing. It's a car that is "bred for the track" and "takes the Z/28 back to its racing roots", but virtually none of them will be raced...so what was the point?
Ponyryd
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^Who's to know, some may be raced, if I could afford one I'd drive it on weekends to the track-as often as funds would allow.
I think the point is to show what a Camaro is capable of, obviously some people will see or hear about it and stroll into the dealer for a look, then they'll see a V6 or lesser V8 model they can actually afford and buy it. That or they just wanna make the news for building such a capable car, I know the Boss 302 was in a ton of comparison tests and had a bunch of articles written about it, it all helps with sales.
I think the point is to show what a Camaro is capable of, obviously some people will see or hear about it and stroll into the dealer for a look, then they'll see a V6 or lesser V8 model they can actually afford and buy it. That or they just wanna make the news for building such a capable car, I know the Boss 302 was in a ton of comparison tests and had a bunch of articles written about it, it all helps with sales.
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Captain Slow
I would think that showing what the Camaro is capable of would be best left to the aftermarket? I mean, that's where the inner potential of every car is brought out. Why have a manufacturer spend a lot of R&D time on something like that?
I think you nailed it with your second point, though...I think this is all about getting people excited for the platform again. Most of these cars will end up as parts of larger collections...never seeing serious track time...but if the initial round of development gets people excited about the Camaro again, they might be able to move a few thousand more standard units to the people who are trying to recreate its performance via the aftermarket.
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4 cam tbird
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I would say this car is really the culmination of all the work and development learnings that went into getting to the ZL1 and 1LE. You're just taking advantage of the learnings from those other cars that were deemed too far for what those cars were more so than spending a bunch of money specifically developing this. I've also seen people say in other places that they wished this car had come out earlier instead of being a last hurrah for this gen of Camaro. I don't think this car was possible earlier in the program. It took what was learned doing the other cars to reach the point the Z28 got to.
