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At the Chicago Auto Show this morning, we captured the ZL1's awesome exhaust sound on stage, starting up and revving. Enjoy!
Allen from Philadelphia has always considered himself to be a levelheaded guy — until he traded in his Infiniti G35x for a 2011 Chevrolet Camaro.
Despite switching from all-wheel drive to rear-wheel drive in the Snowbelt, Allen is pleased with his purchase. Some would even go as far as to say he sounds somewhat obsessed with his American muscle car. Find out why below. If you have your own vehicle review to share with us, go here.
Information about new vehicles always starts to leak close to an auto show, but it’s curious when an automaker spills the beans themselves. GM did just that today by releasing detailed information and a slew of photos of its 2011 Chevrolet Camaro convertible on Facebook today ahead of the car’s unveiling at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show.
The convertible should arrive on the market early in 2011 and will come standard with the same powertrains found on the coupe. There will be a base 312-horsepower V-6 engine with 278 pounds-feet of torque. There will also be a SS trim featuring the 6.2-liter V-8. Chevrolet also showed off the Neiman Marcus Edition trim last month, which starts at $75,000.
The new photos show a RS Package-trimmed convertible with red leather seats. They also show how the Camaro will look with its canvas roof up this time around.Earlier photos of the convertible only had it with the top down.
The Camaro convertible will start at $29,150, not including an $850 destination charge, when it goes on sale in late February.
We’ll have more information about it for you at the L.A. auto show.
Chevy is not satisfied with letting all the European carmakers dominate headlines this week while the Paris Motor Show is going on. No, they’re dropping some news on the long awaited 2011 Chevy Camaro convertible. The news? The starting price and the image above.
V-6 models will start at $29,150 not including a $850 destination charge and goes on sale in February 2011. You know, when everyone is thinking about warmer weather.
The price is almost $2,000 more than a 2011 Mustang convertible. The Ford starts at $27,145.
Chevy says the trim levels and packaging will be identical to the current Camaro coupe. We’ll have full pricing as we get closer to February.
If you’re a car nut and online, it seems you may have to start trolling social media sites to get the latest glimpse of a new product before anyone else. At the official Chevy Camaro Facebook page, these two photos (above and below) surfaced just hours ago.
They look like a production-ready Chevy Camaro to us.
In a pre-auto show event yesterday in Detroit, GM showed reporters a sneak peek of what they’ll debut at the Detroit auto show next month. Our own Mike Hanley was on hand and confirms that an all-new Chevy Aveo will be one of those vehicles.
What you’ll see at the show isn’t an exact production car. It will be a modified version of the hatchback body style with go-fast parts to demonstrate what tuners will be able to do with the new economy car. Because of that, he said it was hard to tell how similar the show car will be to what arrives at dealerships later next year. Hanley says it looks very similar to the production trim level they were shown as well. But it's likely only the RS will be on display in Detroit.
Unsurprisingly, the convertible version of the Camaro will also debut; it should look similar to the concept car, just like the coupe did. This is a more complete pre-production vehicle and not just a show car.
Also rolling out is a newer version of the Chevy Orlando small van, which we saw a concept of last year. Hanley says the show car looks like it has a finalized exterior that's ready for production, but the interior will likely not be fleshed out by showtime. Often, car companies will black out the windows so no one can see inside the vehicle.
On-sale dates for the three models weren’t given, but we’ll learn more during the show’s press days on Jan. 11 and 12.
What do you do when your big Camaro order is delivered in the middle of a winter storm with a temperature of minus 20? You record a video for YouTube pleading for people to “rescue” the 62 Camaros in stock at Paddock Chevrolet in Buffalo, N.Y.
We generally don’t report on specific dealerships, but you have to give the general manager at Paddock points for:
A. Having a sense of humor
B. Using the most basic of web tools to get his message out there
The full video is below. There’s a bit of wind noise halfway through it, but the images of the snowbound muscle cars are worth it.
In this week’s podcast, editors Joe Wiesenfelder and Kelsey Mays are joined again by Ask.cars.com’s Joe Bruzek. They talk about the V-6 Chevy Camaro and how the less powerful version of the muscle car handles itself. Ford’s family-friendly Flex has a new twin-turbo V-6 with a lot more power, which also makes it more driver-friendly. Finally, the three discuss a question from Ask.cars.com.
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