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The center part of the dash looks like a spaceship in the worst possible way. There's too much junk there.

They keep slanting the trunk lid with each generation. The next generation Mustang will be a triangle.

The front bumper is a disaster. It's too compromised. There's a sporty mesh grille, but the fog lights, traditionally placed wherever Ford wanted to stick them, are in the corners, like a Fusion. The shape isn't sharp enough. It's sagging.

Why did they paint the rear diffuser? It looks terrible.

There are so many buttons on the steering wheel that you could probably use it to learn the keyboard.

The wheels came off a Nissan. The shifter and steering wheel are from the 2006 Camaro concept. The body lines form a 370Z. The headlights and grille, though manipulated poorly, are from the 130R.

It's round, not angular.

In short, it sucks, and I hope Chevrolet never makes these mistakes on a future Camaro in the name of producing a global car. Americans don't buy German or Japanese cars because they're American. We buy cars that we like, and sometimes that means buying a foreign car. For the foreigners out there, there's something different about American GTs. We should keep our styling and branch outward, inflicting our style on the world. Look at this community. Look at Camaro5. We have people who paid way too much for a Camaro in Israel, the UK, Japan, Germany, the UAE, Italy, France, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, and so many other great countries joining in this community to share in their enthusiasm of a fine American car. It isn't the Asian curves or European refinement that inspire these fine car enthusiasts from going to Chevrolet for their purchase. It's the uniquely American qualities that make the Camaro a success. Those qualities tend to include sharp lines, hunching shoulders, a long hood, aggressive stance, large wheels, irresponsibly high horsepower, tire-spinning torque, and simple engineering. Where are those qualities on the next Mustang? Some of them are there, but where's the American package with too much chrome? They even dulled the wheels to take off some of that shine that some of us are going out of our way to install in our engine bays. This Mustang is a collection of great features thrown together in a package that I'm sure won't sell.

The worst part of this disaster is that the Mustang, no matter how much the rest of us prefer Camaros, is part of a trend to de-Americanize our cars. To sell globally, some old men in an office somewhere have decided that we have to copy someone else. To sell globally, those old men decided that we have to do what they do. We aren't monkeys in a lab, mimicking the motions of scientists. We have preferences, and our preferences are slowly disappearing from the automotive marketplace, not because of some political agenda or because we aren't buying it, but instead because a company like Ford has decided in their greed to pursue a global product to destroy in the Mustang what makes the Mustang.

Personally, I want the Mustang to do well. I know that sounds like sacrilege coming from a moderator on a Camaro forum, but let's think about this. If the Mustang, a major player in the sporty RWD coupe segment tanks, those sales could go to anyone. I'd like to think the Camaro would pick up the slack, but with a design that's increasingly foreign, the sales may as well go to Nissan, Hyundai, or—have mercy—Toyota. Mustang success is a good thing for American cars, and so is Challenger success and obviously Camaro success. We want these cars to remain as American in design as possible. We shouldn't have to adapt our culture to satisfy the world. We should open our doors to their unique products, and we do; meanwhile, we should produce our own culture and sell it globally. The Camaro, Mustang, Challenger, Corvette, Viper, and any other performance products from the United States should reflect a culture that is American; a culture that is unique; a culture that doesn't compromise it's integrity in the name of global competition.

I guess that wasn't "in short" after all.