[DGthe3]

Originally Posted by MrWray

Apparently you did miss something, did you not read the very first post by the OP? and im talking about all this euro influenced crap that the auto makers are doing, it seems like there is a trend going on now where they are making vehicles with subtle euro styling trying to pacify a "world" market instead of an "American" market, and if they keep going this route in the coming years that our vehicles will look more european and lose alot of the american appeal.

Yes, I did read the OP. And every other post in this thread. I've also read the press release from the GM media site that all this is based off of.

But I'm not entirely sure that the OP read the press release because it never said this:

Only the corvette will be sent to Europe from now on.

The closest is when they said that they will "tailor [Chevrolets] presence to offering select iconic vehicles -such as the Corvette" in the 2nd paragraph. But they said vehicles and I don't know what else would qualify as iconic besides the Camaro.

So whatever your fears of a Euro Camaro, they shouldn't be diminished by this.

On the other hand, I don't have a clue where those fears are even coming from. Nothing on the Camaro today looks European. 2nd Gen? Sure. 3rd? Nope. 4th? Not really. 5th? Absolutely not. So there is no 'trend' towards European styling on the Camaro.

Beyond that, we haven't seen anything at all of the 6th gen. I haven't even heard GM whisper a single word about what the 6th gen will look like. So we have nothing at all what-so-ever to claim that it is, or will be, (or won't be) influenced by European design ideas.

Which brings me to something else ... would it be such a terrible thing if the Camaro borrowed a little bit from, say Lamborghini? I ask because Lambos are undeniably European, but they don't really look anything at all like say a Fiat Multipla. And there are already some general similarities between the 5th gen Camaros & current Lamborghinis, stylistically at least. They both feature hard edges leading to an almost faceted exterior. The cars are so bold & brash that its almost cartoonish. And that is precisely what people love about them. Its also what people hate about them. But the point is, you can't really use 'European' as some sort of catch all term to describe styling. Compare Lamborghini, Fiat, Jaguar, and a Volvo. All are European, none look at all similar. And if you are concerned about Chevy's looking like Fiats, well thats more of a problem for Dodge.



On the larger issue of global vehicles ... there is a huge difference between a Cruze & a Camaro. A Cruze has to be economical transportation and appeal to everyone who is looking for that. To do so, you have to make certain compromises. Camaros don't have that problem. If someone outside of North America wants a Camaro, they want it for the exact same reasons that you want it: they want a badass American muscle car. Making the car look more mainstream for the Belgians or Slovakians or whoever would probably backfire.