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Some people are fans of the 2015 Chevrolet Camaro SS 1LE. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Chevrolet Camaro SS 1LE. This 2015 tongue-in-cheek car “review” is for those in the latter group.
This is part of an ongoing series of articles I will be writing using the formula laid out by Drew Magary on Deadspin.
Your Car: 2015 Chevrolet Camaro SS 1LE
Your 2015 Model Year Vital Stats: 426 All American Ponies, a factory installed Stance Nation starter kit flat black hood wrap, 3800 lbs of hardened arteries, hardened suspension and 285 series supercar tires. It has six row-your-own gears like George Washington, our Founding Fathers, and God intended. All built in Canada. This particular model in a yellow so bright you can hear the paint miles away.
Your Aesthetics Recipe:
In a beer keg, mix fifteen pounds of all-purpose grade A lard. Pour an oil can of Fosters, A Case of Busch Light, A shot of Canadian Club Whiskey and sub-par plastic interior materials, let it sit until the design is stale, tap and serve liberally.
What’s new that sucks:
Despite the fact that the Bumblebee looks are gone, every 6-10 year old wets themselves in excitement when they see this car, this is balanced by their later soul-crushing disappointment when you tell them “It’s just a car, not a Transformer.” So I suppose if you hate children, the Camaro SS is the car for you. You better not have any kids either, because the back seats are only fit for double amputees. Most of the interior materials feel like they belong on a 1992 Geo Storm, specifically the 2SS trim model, there are big horrible sheets of plastic on the door pads. Nothing says quality like grey colored shiny plastic on the doors. This is on the high end car too! I’m pretty sure the Storm is a more comfortable place to be as well, though my gripe with Recaros has more to do with my own fat ass than the seats themselves. Thankfully the 1SS has tasteful cloth appointments but lacks the crash inducing heads up display found on the 2SS models, gotta get them lat G’s brah; the 1LE pack gets the micro-suede flat-bottomed wheel and shift knob, and stupid staggered wheels, with same size tires all the way around, seriously what’s the point of staggering wheel width with the same sized tire?
What has always sucked:
Some may argue that a Camaro is a “class-less” car, meaning that it doesn’t belong to any particular financial class, say the way a 6 year old Hyundai Accent with a broken windshield and a missing rear bumper cover belongs to someone working for slave wages at McHorkers and the same way that the owner of the McHorkers franchise owner may drive a Mercedes E550 and use $100 bills to light his cigars. Driving a Camaro however, everyone thinks, “Wow, I’ll bet he’s the type of guy that likes to peel out of a Dairy Queen.” When you are driving a Camaro, you’re thinking “Man, I can’t wait to peel out of another Dairy Queen.” The Camaro therefore has a weight problem, and an image problem.
Some cars fairly or unfairly give people a prejudice, for instance I scream “Fuck you and your Bentley” at every Flying Spur that I see. The owners of course can never hear me as they are surrounded by thick glass, rich Corinthian leather, advanced materials, and more money than God. Whereas when you see a dude driving a Camaro, your immediate thought (after wondering how much rubber has been laid on your local Dairy Queen parking lot) is this dude knows how to have a good time. He might be behind on his alimony payment; he might be stealing the neighbor’s Wi-Fi to download porn. Hell, he probably owes you $25 bucks. But I guarantee he knows how to shotgun a beer, how to make women feel uncomfortable at bars, and what chlamydia tastes like. But, there are few that can party as hearty as him. The same can be said for the Camaro.
What might not suck: In a lot of ways, the Camaro SS is kind of like an interior lineman who catches an interception and runs it back for the touchdown. He’s big, fat, scary looking and probably consumes fried chicken at a rate the Camaro’s 6.2l V8 consumes fuel, but shockingly both are actually kind of spry on their feet. The Camaro looks massive, it IS massive, and that makes the amount of available grip even more astonishing. This car has grip that will end up killing an unskilled driver. It’s just *grip grip grip,* until you fly off the road, off an embankment and burst into flames, but rest assured the townsfolk will play Freebird at your funeral.
You’ll also notice that I said throughout the whole piece, “a man driving a Camaro,” despite the fact that my significant other, who is not a man, just bought one… So having written this, what might not suck? Sleeping on the futon.
Next time on Why Your Car Sucks: Porsche 911 Turbo S
Share your opinions in the comment section below. Remember, this is all in good fun.
Travis - Count Of Monte Carlo is not a Count, author, journalist or even a part-time fanfic writer. Instead he spends his days driving his classic Chevrolet across SE-Michigan and his quiet nights at home drinking cheap whiskey and listening to The Lynyrd Skynyrd. Occasionally he has a valid idea or opinion which he feels must be shared on the internet. You can reach him at thespunbearing@outlook.com
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Why it sucks: because you can’t fucking
see
out of the damn thing! And no T-tops, either! I mean, that’s the whole point of the Camaro in the first place.
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Yeah the lack of mullet ventilation is a serious oversight in the design department
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thanks honey.
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no matter how good it looks in yellow I’d never buy one just because of the fact that kids would lose their shit when they see it thinking it’s bumblebee.
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The small window openings keep the Drakkar Noir, butt sweat, mullet oil, and Marlboro smoke juices in during cooking. It’s a feature.
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I want this article to get main paged just so everyone can see this comment.
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I’m just an awful person and enjoy seeing their tiny spirits crushed when they realize I am neither Shia LeBeouf nor Megan Fox and the only thing this transforms is your average 5mph over the limit into IMMEDIATE POLICE ATTENTION
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This article is true and makes me want a Camaro.
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Now this is how you do satire. Unlike someone else we know coughcOUGH.
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I still choose to believe that you are Shia LaBeouf
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Nah, he really does hate it. So much in fact that he wants me to ride the motorcycle to work more often so he can take the Camaro off my hands.
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‘14 FoST next, plz.+
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Well, don’t tell anyone else, but I’m actually John Turturro.
#doxxed
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Now the question is, how is this perception of owners different from people who drive Mustangs and Challengers?
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Mustangs: For those who (until very recently) valued nostalgia over petty things like “modern suspension”
Challengers: For those who (until very recently) enjoyed being dead last in literally everything besides weight and IT’S GOT A HEMI! Bigger is better, right??
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It would amuse me maybe twice then I’d lose my shit. Have a octopus sleeve tattoo with some negative space bubbles (ie: bubbles without any coloring) and there’s two, one large and one small that show under my shirt sleeve.. “ooh is that Mickey mouse??” “Yeah, that’s clearly an octopus tentacle but I decided to put fucking Mickey mouse on it”
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Just don’t drive it to Virginia. Remember what happened last time somebody drove a Camaro in Virginia? :)
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*shudders, does sign of the cross*
Man, I can’t do another nickel!
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Lol, you sir, are braver than I initially suspected. hysterical as always
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Hahahaha
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“Why it sucks: Bc its not mine” - True story
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This is fun... I’d loan you my GTO for this if you were near by.
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Dude, you want a throat lozenge?
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Next week on Why your car sucks;
Why Living out of a Monty Carlo sucks (Please let me back in Yamahog, I didn’t mean it I swear!)
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It’s OK, I knew it was coming :P
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Why Your Car Sucks :
Z28 >>>> SS To the point that they should discontinue the SS
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Yes the new 2015 Camaro does suck. Astute observation, Travis.
People can now divert their hard earned dollars towards a product that isn’t an utter brick of fail. Lexus, Acura, Audi (some), hell even a high output Jeep Grand Cherokee or a Dodge Challenger. The new Mustang is a sexy beast too.
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Meh, they’d probably just scratch “Michael Bay sukz” into the side of it.
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Your wish has been granted.
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That is just it. Very recently; as in the direct 2015 competition for this Camaro.
They are waaaaaay better now. Head and shoulders above this crapmobile.
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Please feature it IN the article, but with credit for the author of it.
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426 All American Ponies, a factory installed Stance Nation starter kit flat black hood wrap, 3800 lbs of hardened arteries, hardened suspension and 285 series supercar tires. It has six row-your-own gears like George Washington, our Founding Fathers, and God intended.
All built in Canada
. This particular model in a yellow so bright you can
hear
the paint miles away.
Incredible.
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FOUND THE WHALENGER OWNER, EVERYONE!!
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Around a track and in price, the camaro is still the best.
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oh, shit, FP’d. TROLLS INCOMING! Better clarify that I am not threatening my SO, nor did he sleep on the futon for making tongue-in-cheek criticisms of my car.
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This is part of an ongoing series of articles I will be writing using the formula laid out by Drew Magary on Deadspin.
Emulating the worst parts of Deadspin isn’t the best plan.
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I won’t disagree with you on any of the three, but I will day that the Challenger owners (we’ll stick the SRT here) seem way happier with their choice than newish Camaro and Mustang owners. Je ne sais quoi!
I would very much like to be a new GT350 owner (unlikely) but I promise to report back how unhappy and dissatisfied Iam.
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Fuck that. Lol.
Hellcat is fantastic.
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Mullet oil .... I was going to try to say something funny but your comments are so much better than anything I could come up with that my humour is standing in center field watching your humour fly over its head past the light tower and into the parking lot.+1000
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Uhh, the z28 costs $30k more...
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You clearly mean the best part of deadspin.
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I like the original better.
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This was a nice try but last time I checked, the dated ‘15 Camaro 1LE is still faster around a track than the new ‘15 Mustang GT with performance pack. I think mustang sees a little more tail lights, no?
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#thehipsterstruggleisreal
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The big issue with mustang is the mod motor, it’s a terrible N/A motor. I’m expecting huge issues with the 5.2 l voodoo motor. The mod motor has always been awful. From 1991 to 2014 it never made more power from the factory than the GM equivalent. Sure you can throw boost down it, but you can do the same thing to the LS motor and we all know how well that works
the challenger to get isn’t the Hellcat, it’s the SRT 392. And here’s the thing, it’s going to take a lot more driver skill to get the SRT around the track faster than the Camaro. Even though it makes ~50 more horsepower.
I don’t think that the Camaro is the best looking of the group, and it’s interior is pretty bad, even by gm standards, but for the money it’s the best of the three.
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Camaros look best peeling out of 7-11 after picking up some smokes. Sure, the Dairy Queen thing might be true, but the smokes-to-DQ run ratio is probably 5:1... brah.
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Just got FP’ed...enjoy
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I’ll loan him my FoST if I have too...
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I’ve noticed that nearly every time I go to a Dairy Queen, a Camaro peels out of the parking lot while I’m there. Spot-on, 10,000 points.
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Partially mentioned: requirements of ownership include a mullet and a wife beater t-shirt
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Do you still have the Clutch Assist Spring in yours? It sucks way less without it.
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I’m just following Travis’s sarcastic tone there, I have nothing against other people’s decisions :) And I know “it’s just anecdotes” and all, and there’s no way to measure happiness, but... I’m not a crier, and I was fighting back tears of joy bringing my 1LE home in April.
We didn’t grow up with tons of money so I’d never had a car less than 10 years old, I wasn’t allowed to have a job during the high school year so I could focus on my grades and I had no money to buy anything cool (until my old Ninja 250 in college!), but gratefully took the hand-me-down Mercurys and Explorers available. The “focus on your grades!” thing worked out pretty well and I graduated valedictorian of my high school and went to my #1 choice university and studied aerospace engineering (thanks Mom & Dad, go Blue)! It kicked my ass and I had to work part time too but I graduated on time (with 5 figures of debt even after financial aid and merit scholarships) and started making good money right away. However, I used it to pay down the loans as fast as I could and was still DD’ing an absolute POS Cherokee. I love it, but it just wants to be a mud truck.
With my 25th birthday coming up and loans vanquished, I decided to #treatmyself. Drove a Challenger R/T for a week, DID NOT WANT since I want to be able to track this car, among many other reasons. To get all the options I wanted, a 2015 Mustang GT performance pack would run me way more and still perform arguably worse or no better than a 1LE. I ordered the Camaro exactly how I wanted it (I’ll admit I’m still shocked they don’t offer side blind zone indicators on this thing, holy crap!) and I’m very happy with my choice :)
I smile every time I see it in my garage and wonder how the hell this shitty poor kid was allowed to have such nice things, look back every time I have to park it, and still laugh like an idiot every chance I get to put down the fast pedal and hear that sweet, sweet noise. Now I have my happy medium between slow lifted box and my motorcycle, just have to do some driver mods and it’ll make me very competitive wherever I take it :)
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TAKE COVER!!!
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Basically the look I’m going for at any given time:
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I think you’re supposed to pay for them, not just take them:
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Truth is, Challenger owners seem to be mostly young dudes who just paid off their brotruck.
Camaro owners, contrary to the article above, are mostly chicks. I see more hot cougars in Camaros than any other demographic
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They make them with the stripes built in, too! *gags* A bit over the top, even for me.
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Haha, depending on my route to work I pass one that sits outside all year round with their CAMARO SS dual stripe cover.
The sad part is, they have a 2 car garage. It always makes me wonder, if you leave the SS outside to rot what the hell is in the garage?
Last time I saw the answer to that question involved a Charger R/T and a Corvette sitting outside, I assumed there must be something epic in the garage. I was terribly disappointed to find out the garage was full of god damn boxes.
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LAME. Luckily we have a lofted garage so we can store crap up there and save our precious precious car spaces :)
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Camaro owners, contrary to the article above, are mostly chicks.
Is that supposed to be a bad thing?
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My garage just gained 4 wheels, a steering wheel, and an engine yesterday
not much of a horsepower increase though...
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Ride-on mower ‘lopnik??
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For a variety of, ultimately, inexcusable reasons, I had a 99 camaro, new, for awhile.
I lived in rural sw pennsylvania.
In the camaro I might as well have been ‘the pope of chilli-town’.
I had various classics and semi exotics. Nothing had the respect of the locals like the ‘maro.
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You’re a man of the people, in the car for the people!
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I had a giggle.
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YUP
A whole 17 horsepower!
It is a ~475% increase in horsepower over my push mower, so I guess I have that going for me.
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“Wow, I’ll bet he’s the type of guy that likes to peel out of a Dairy Queen.”
BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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The All American Crapmaro.....another “exceptional” product from GM. 100% Crap.
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I must have gotten lucky with my terrible N/A Coyote then. Thanks Livernois! Albeit non stock, I’ve chased and passed numerous “faster” Camaros around Milford Road Course, Gingerman and Watkins Glen.
Also, I’d take the R/T Scat Pack over the SRT any day.
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We only have room for one sarcastic car review person, and thats Mr Regular Car Reviews.
Do my Jeep next haha
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Don’t feed the troll.
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Wait.. Ford killed the mod motor in 2011 for the coyote which makes more power than the LS3 and is lighter... i think it’s unfair to say the ford v8 is awful considering its DOHC and has more new tech than the pushrod Chevy...
No denying the LS3 can handle anything you throw at it.
Disclaimer: i'm a mustang owner
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For the same money spent, you’d have a faster LS motor or new Hemi. The bore spacing is the main limiting factor in the mod motor. Ford wanted to build an overhead cam motor in the same footprint of the 302. NA motors need big bores to breathe properly at high RPM. The bore/stroke ratio is all wrong, and the rod ratio is not ideal either.
Also the SRT has better brakes, adjustable suspension and is much better than the Scat Pack around a track.
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Where the hell is there still a Dairy Queen?
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At least the mustang sees *something*. It’s great fun standing outside a Camaro taunting the owner when you know they can’t see you...
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We have some in Michigan, which in no way makes up for the inexcusably lack of Carvels or Friendly’s.
/eastcoasttransplant
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In during cooking.... hrmm.
Can drivers actually squeeze out those little window openings when they’re in a helmet/suit and there’s a window net frame in the way?
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The Coyote is part of the Ford Modular Motor family. The Coyote and LS motor both come in around 445lb. but the LS motor is more compact, and simpler. In Racing, the simplest solution is the best. The coyote is a victim of packaging. ford wanted an ohc engine to fit in the same space as the old 302. bore spacing, and then the max bore allowable was sacrificed for packaging reasons. I love old ford motors, the 302 is excellent, same with the 427FE and the 3.5 ecoboost is great. but the mod motor is always a gilded horse in my book.
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Would an XJ work?
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I’ve never even heard of those.
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So top mustang vs. Top camaro I’m pretty sure the 350r would kick the camaro back to China.
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Yup, but if you’re already spending $40k on a mullet dryer, you may as well go all in.
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Sadly the Camaro in my eyes is still a girly car my 69 Lincoln has 425 hp with 500 foot pounds of torque
My 1966 Imperial with the 440 is the car that nobody knows what the hell it is and gets a lot of attention
And let’s not Forget my 1992 Lincoln Mark vii lsc with the Ford 5.0 HO and a locker rear end fun quick and still more unique than a Camaro !
And all three cost me less than Half the price of a 2015 camarO
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This. Is. AWESOME!!
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D:
That makes Fudgie the Whale sad
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Read the rest of them
http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/search?q=why+y…
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It’s all fun and games until someone leaves a flaming bag of dookie behind the rear wheels...
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Hey I owned a 91 Geo Storm and my interior materials weren’t that bad! Also I could see out of my Storm and wasn’t a “poser” due to being mullet free.
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Would an XJ work?
XJs never work
There, already did the article for you
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My spirits would be crushed realizing you’re not Megan Fox!
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When I met my wife, she was driving a brand new 99 Camaro SS (hardtop!). Sure, 16 years later she drives a Volvo, but after the kids go to bed, there’s always a Camaro owner in there waiting to come out.
Happy Mother’s Day to all the beautiful moms who are, or were, Camaro owners.
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My dad had a Geo Metro for a bit. Gotta say, this is the first time I’ve ever heard anyone say anything in defense of any non-Tracker Geo.
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Of course not. I’d much rather see a hot chick in a Camaro than some beer gutted dude with mullet any day.
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Well, being a 24 year old woman on teh internet, we already know I’m smokin hot.
Megan Fox is just slightly taller than me and I don’t have blue eyes. Only difference, really.
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Camaros of any kind in this latest vintage are like assholes - everyone has one and everyone thinks its the best ever..
sorry - but I loathe Camaros. that stupid low cut roof line isn’t built for people over 5’5” and at 6’6” I couldn’t see shit out of it- in any seat position.. let alone attempting to put anyone or anything in it afterwards... Glad I stuck it out for my G8 GXP and my SS.
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The Camaro has bad visibility yes but you can’t act like the Mustang doesn’t. It’s nearly as bad as the Camaro is, swap the blue oval for a bowtie and you’d be shitting on that one to.
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That may be true but the GT350R is brand new with tons of performance enhancing upgrades. The Z/28 on the other hand, is still riding on a dated platform and is still being powered by a dated engine.