Sounds like they're starting to learn:


Used to be that dudes who drove pony/muscle cars didn't give a **** about having nicely textured, low-sheen car interior trimmings. As long as the plastic flashing on the seams of the center console wasn't so egregious that it would slice their hands while they reached for ashtray, it was cool.
But now men cry out in public and want a non-crappy interior in their Camaro. One problem: The new Camaro's interior is indeed on the crappy side. A GM insider confirmed for us that the company is hard at work now on a substantially reworked interior for the Camaro that will appear for the 2012 model year. He couldn't/wouldn't list all of the changes, but did mention that most of the upgrading work will go into the dash and specifically that big expanse of blackness in front of the passenger. We're betting the work will include substantially more than just a new dash cap and will -- please, please, please -- include a new, less-stupidly shaped steering wheel and primary gauges designed with readability as a higher priority than some ill-considered retro style.
Also new for the 2012 will be a little something called the Camaro Z28. Perhaps you've heard of it once (or a million times) before. Why wait until the 2012 model year? Our source says so it doesn't step on the toes to the convertible which will be the Camaro's "big news for 2011."

 

How many 2011 Mustangs will Government Motors buy for "analysis"? Will we also see a change from the current Nintendo/Playstation controllers to XBOX 360? Next comparison test for 2011 Camaro vs. 2011 Mustang - whose convertible is better? Think 'Stangers know the answer to that one already.

 

But I thought the current interior won all those design awards.

 

Jeremy Clarkson: "if they'd just spent an extra 50p on the interior"

I agree. I like the new Camaro's a lot, but the interior is a joke compared to the 2010+ Mustang interior.

 

How do you change an interior that was designed directly by jesus?