Do you think the GTO 6.0 will be competition against the mustang?

Not really impressed with the looks....

Your thoughts?

 

are you kidding me....?

stock for stock?

 

when talking 400hp vs. 300hp...even with the difference weight...I am afraid our pony cars can't match that in quarter mile times

 

read a review at road and track. were talking 1/2 second here and there. I am wondering if the camaro will be in 2007 with a 5.4 liter?

Still our pony car held its own on performance with a car that has 1/3 more HP. Of course we got the looks beat on that ugly thing!

 

Why was this moved?

 

5.4 liter? GM has no 5.4L thats a Ford Mod motor. GM has a 5.3L, but if GM resurrects the Camaro you can bet it will be running an LS2.

Unless they look at what Ford has done with the Mustang and decide that a smaller less powerful motor is in the best interest of sales (5.3,5.7), but I would put money on an LS2 in the next Camaro iteration.

Back on topic; stock for stock an LS2 powered GTO will beat a 05+ GT with equal drivers. Throw an intake, tune, and 4.10s in the GT and I'd bet the little 4.6 could pull ahead.

 

From what I've heard. GM has nothing coming right now. They were working a platform that they would use to create a car to compete with the Mustang. But that Platfrom was dropped completely a couple months back. So I have no idea whats going down in GM land right now. I've heard its the Camaro coming back and I've also heard Chevelle. I'm thinking we will see something at the Auto Show's after X-mas. They would be stupid not to even have some prototype rigged up. Even if it wasn't going into production. Just to raise peoples interest.

I've also heard a Challenger is being worked on for 2008. But who know's if that is true or not also

 

Challenger is supposed 2009 last I heard. I hope that in January GM does show off a new Camaro.

 

GM's zeta platform got pushed back to 08' by the time they're done with development the S197 body style will be in for a restyling, possibly a new engine. Ford always relied on a smaller, yet still great perfoming engine to make the price lower. The mustangs pretty much have a had a good record of consistently outselling the Camaros.

 

Ford's OHC engines are more expensive than the comparable Chevy engines. You can buy a 400 hp LS2 crate motor for about the same price as a 310 hp Mach 1 DOHC. The 420 hp Cammer costs about the same as a 505 hp LS7. And by the way, the Chevy smallblock gets excellent gas milage too. GM just hasn't been able to wrap a good body around that great engine (except for the Corvette). I love the Mustang, but if Ford offered an LS2 as an engine option, I'd take it.