In the early days of the fifth generation Camaro I used to get waved at by ANY other Camaro driver. Not any more. About three months ago I was walking across campus with a guy from the College IT dept. We spotted a Victory Red Camaro in the parking lot. He told me he knew the owner and that she was on staff here at the college and that he would introduce me. He did just that when we got thru with our errand. However, she was headed to a meeting and could not talk more than a few seconds. I asked her if her Camaro was a 6 or an 8 because I had been too far across the parking lot from it to be able to tell. She said, and I quote, "Oh it's neither one, it's at least an 11, it has the BIG engine"!
But, it's not just women. I've run into men who insist they have one "at home". And then they'll go on to tell me it has a 4 cylinder and that DODGE (!!!!) doesn't make a Camaro with a bigger engine. One guy at a car show would not believe me that my engine was 8 cylinders. He told me that when GM was "taken over" by the government Chevy was not allowed to put engines any larger than a 6 cylinder in the new Camaro because the Obama administration wants to increase gas milage on autos.
I'm with HotRodSally, I think it's the passion component. That's part of the reason there are so many used fifth gen Camaros for sale. The folks that bought them really didn't know what they had and didn't care! I've quit asking every Camaro owner I meet to join C5 until I can tell whether they have the "passion". Good call HotRodSally.