"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
10/12/2015 at 10:58 • Filed to: Chevrolet Camaro
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"Wobbles the Mind" (wobblesthemind)
10/12/2015 at 10:58 • Filed to: Chevrolet Camaro | 3
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Just noticed this. It’s interesting because it makes it a little bit easier to imagine where the greenhouse could have started. I kid of course. I do wish that the bottom portion of the sideview mirrors were black. It also seems like it needs a little something at the bottom since that is a lot of side panel.
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2015 at 11:15 |
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Is it just me, or is the new Camaro window graphic (the general shape and outline for the side windows) seem a bit....
...Mopar-like? Camaro has never had that sort of window graphic before (hell, most of the time it hasn’t had a quarter window AT ALL in 2nd, 3rd, or 4th gens), and it isn’t even Chevelle-like. Even the underbite in the bumper and grille looks slightly like 71-72 Plymouth Satellite/GTX/Roadrunner like.
McMike
> Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2015 at 11:20 |
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Just imagine how tall it would seem without those creases.
TheHondaBro
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
10/12/2015 at 11:22 |
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Wow, I can no longer unsee that.
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TheHondaBro
> McMike
10/12/2015 at 11:23 |
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It just looks like a Challenger without the creases.
crowmolly
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
10/12/2015 at 11:24 |
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Eh?
To me it’s a modernization of the hockey stick stripe, which I personally think looks tacky on anything after 1969.
StingrayJake
> Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2015 at 11:36 |
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The rear has a Scion TC look from this angle. Not a fan.
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Wobbles the Mind
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
10/12/2015 at 11:49 |
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Won’t lie, as a Mopar man, I think that draws me more to the Camaro than anything else.
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BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> crowmolly
10/12/2015 at 12:06 |
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The stripe perhaps does allude to the hockey-stick stripe, although it could actually have done that.
I wasn’t referring specifically to the stripe, but rather the new side window graphic of the 2016 Camaro, which is different than GM has done in the past, and as I mentioned, seems more Mopar-inspired to me.
for Michigan
> Wobbles the Mind
10/12/2015 at 14:04 |
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The more I look at this thing, the more I dislike it. When the first images were released, I thought it was a reasonable evolution of the current Camaro, but now I think it’s just a lazy, uninspired updated.
And it looks even harder to see out of, which I didn’t think was possible.
The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
10/12/2015 at 22:59 |
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Nope. Behold the 1968 Hurst Olds and 1969 GTO Judge.
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BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
10/13/2015 at 01:07 |
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Again, I wasn’t talking about the stripe, despite the topic of the thread. I was talking about the side window shape. The quarter window has three edges, with distinct angles, aside from the seam to the door window.
The Chevelle, the Olds, and the Pontiac each don’t have angles like that... the Satellite/GTX/Roadrunner does.
A stripe that follows the fender crest and belt line is hardly distinctive, and is about as simple as accent stripes get. The stripe does almost nothing to define the car’s look the way the window graphic does.
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The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
10/13/2015 at 18:58 |
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Sure it does. It’s more noticable from the side. I always saw some Mopar styling as charicatures of GM designs. The 67 Dart reminds of a 64 Chevy ii. The 68/69 Charger C pillars are a rip off of the 66/67 GM A body’s and the 69 Charger grille reminds me a lot of the 68 GTO. The Satellite you pictured reminds me of the Le Mans pictured above, even down to the front bumper being an entire ring around the nose. And of course the 70 Challenger/Cuda remind me of the 67 Camaro/Firebird.