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Originally Posted by Malbjey

Very much disagree here. People would have absolutely opted for blind spot monitoring (especially with the car's compromised visibility) and heated/cooled seats on the LT1.


If anything, the extra performance upgrades (extra cooling, bigger rear brakes, etc) from the SS models is what people don't need if they are buying the car for the streets and drag strip.


Most Camaro buyers aren't tracking the car where they even need the extra cooling or extra braking power. You don't even need that stuff for Autocross.


People shouldn't have to pay 5K+ more for an SS2, when GM could have offered the convenience features as an option on the LT1. GM got greedy.


And again, the price to add those features for the I4 and V6 cars was nowhere near as large.

Auto manufacturers have been stuffing big engines into low or no option/"sleeper" cars since the 60s. Thats the market for which the LT1 trim was intended. The phrase "most bang for the buck" is normally used to describe/discuss this segment.

A more recent example would be the Foxbody 5.0 notchback sedan. Same drivetrain as the GT model but none or only a limited amount of the "convenience" features offered so to speak. Low mileage 5.0 notchbacks bring as much if not more than comparable GTs on BAT in today's auctions. The actual numbers validate that there is a market for these type of low or no option/"sleeper" cars.

Just because it's your opinion that "people would have absolutely opted for blind spot monitoring" doesn't change decades of historical precedence.

Agree to disagree.