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Originally Posted by snizzle
Do people really care about practicality or visibility on a car in this segment? I don't. The 5th gen wasn't practical in any way. But if performance isn't the problem (it's not) relative to the competition, and it looks the part (subjective), then I guess you could be onto something. This car does what it was built to do, in many cases better than the competition, but it's not enough. When Chevy is doing the autopsy in the next few years, they'll have to figure it out for the Camaro EV because they're likely going to lose the traditional muscle car guy/gal.
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Yes they do care. People on enthusiast sites always seem to forget that the bread and butter of these cars is the lower trims. only 30-40% of all Camaros sold are V-8 models, that means 60-70% are 4s and 6s. Vast majority of those buyers aren't gonna care if the car laps the ring in X amount of time, or if it does the 1/4 in 11.99 or 12.1 seconds. They care if it looks cool and works for them as a daily driver. Those buyers aren't gonna say well the performance overrides any little inconvenience.
The camaro as a performance car is insane at what it can do, problem is that's only 30-40% of the buyers. GM IMO focused to hard on what the minority wanted which was smaller, lighter, faster. The problem is the Camaro is a bad coupe, especially compared to its direct rivals Mustang and Challenger.