Now the black one I like. The white one, not so much. The front end just looks "wrong". Looks like a S-10 mini truck front end hobbled to fit on a Camaro. Just doesn't look right to me...especially with the premium you pay for a Lingenfelter. It's not like they are cheap. But everyone's got different tastes.....
That's exactly the car I thought they were trying to play off of. The headlights on the new one are cheesy...it looks like they didn't even bother w/ new headlights that actually fit the new front end, instead they just let the front bumper cap cover up the corners of the squared OE headlights to make them "look" round...not the kind of corners I would expect to be cut in a $40-60k car. Enlarge the headlights a bit and build ones specifically for the redesigned front end. My other gripe is the nose is too tall and too flat. It needs to lose 2-2.5" out of the front end between the grille and foglight/lower grille area to bring the front end into proportion. Another option (more realistic) would be to enlarge the grille openings (height wise) to eliminate some of the billboard front end. Pulling the headlight/grille area out from the car 1-1.5" would give the front end some much needed negative rake (like the original) to break up the "snowplow" front end.
It's a novel concept...I just feel that it was a bit of a half-baked execution for a premium niche car.
The black car was very well executed. You can still see the Camaro in it's profile/sillouette, but the restyled front/rears don't look like cheap JC Whitney add-ons. They were styled and blended into the Camaro panels very well.
The height's the same on both. My opinion is that the new camaro's are too tall to begin with. Also, the black tends to look nicer than the white in general, white makes the car look plastic, which it is.
BTW, round headlights are almost extinct, I think maybe Jeep still uses them? I'd have to look at that front end a bit closer, especially around the lights.
Thiis seems to give the same impression though...
But both have a large gap between the headlight/grill area, and the fog lamps below, but as I said, the cars too damn tall at the fender, and then it looks like you sit low. I haven't got in one yet, what's it like looking over the dash/hood? Do they feel too tall?
Sides, I want a Challenger with a massive C.I. swap under the hood ala 426...
Sides, I want a Challenger with a massive C.I. swap under the hood ala 426...
The Challenger is a good looking car. Wallowing pig on stock suspension (I drove an R/T), but that can be fixed. It'd be my #2 choice behind the Mustang (bet you didn't see that coming ) for pony cars.
I wasn't impressed w/ the Camaro I sat in at all. You sit high, but it's feels like it's got a low roof (I'm only 5-10"). You definitely notice the high hoodline from the driver seat. Visibility is terrible (even out the front was questionable at best)...forget about seeing who's coming up on you from the rear quarters (blind spots the size of Texas). I didn't even bother driving it I was put off enough by it. But they sell well enough, so there must be something there some people like.
But I'm still glad it's back. Competition is good, I'd hate to see Ford go stagnent w/ the Mustang because there was no sector competition.
Nice car but the colors could be different. Looks like a color combo that my wife would drive.
But what do I know?
Yeah, it resembles the old "Skybirds". I don't care. I like blue. There's a shot of the interior on the article, very nice and very retro...
I'd take a coupe, but pass on the convertible.
there have been attemts on a T/A at sema since 2009... Burt Renalds would be proud to drive this one...
That is mental, really like that :D
Now the black one I like. The white one, not so much. The front end just looks "wrong". Looks like a S-10 mini truck front end hobbled to fit on a Camaro. Just doesn't look right to me...especially with the premium you pay for a Lingenfelter. It's not like they are cheap. But everyone's got different tastes.....
Actually, the white one reminds me of the early 70's Formula/T/A front ends, more so than the T/A's of the Smokey and the Bandit era.
Now, if I could get a Formula hood to go with it!
That's exactly the car I thought they were trying to play off of. The headlights on the new one are cheesy...it looks like they didn't even bother w/ new headlights that actually fit the new front end, instead they just let the front bumper cap cover up the corners of the squared OE headlights to make them "look" round...not the kind of corners I would expect to be cut in a $40-60k car. Enlarge the headlights a bit and build ones specifically for the redesigned front end. My other gripe is the nose is too tall and too flat. It needs to lose 2-2.5" out of the front end between the grille and foglight/lower grille area to bring the front end into proportion. Another option (more realistic) would be to enlarge the grille openings (height wise) to eliminate some of the billboard front end. Pulling the headlight/grille area out from the car 1-1.5" would give the front end some much needed negative rake (like the original) to break up the "snowplow" front end.
It's a novel concept...I just feel that it was a bit of a half-baked execution for a premium niche car.
The black car was very well executed. You can still see the Camaro in it's profile/sillouette, but the restyled front/rears don't look like cheap JC Whitney add-ons. They were styled and blended into the Camaro panels very well.
The height's the same on both. My opinion is that the new camaro's are too tall to begin with. Also, the black tends to look nicer than the white in general, white makes the car look plastic, which it is.
BTW, round headlights are almost extinct, I think maybe Jeep still uses them? I'd have to look at that front end a bit closer, especially around the lights.
Thiis seems to give the same impression though...
But both have a large gap between the headlight/grill area, and the fog lamps below, but as I said, the cars too damn tall at the fender, and then it looks like you sit low. I haven't got in one yet, what's it like looking over the dash/hood? Do they feel too tall?
Sides, I want a Challenger with a massive C.I. swap under the hood ala 426...
I do like this though...
or this...
The Challenger is a good looking car. Wallowing pig on stock suspension (I drove an R/T), but that can be fixed. It'd be my #2 choice behind the Mustang (bet you didn't see that coming
) for pony cars.
I wasn't impressed w/ the Camaro I sat in at all. You sit high, but it's feels like it's got a low roof (I'm only 5-10"). You definitely notice the high hoodline from the driver seat. Visibility is terrible (even out the front was questionable at best)...forget about seeing who's coming up on you from the rear quarters (blind spots the size of Texas). I didn't even bother driving it I was put off enough by it. But they sell well enough, so there must be something there some people like.
But I'm still glad it's back. Competition is good, I'd hate to see Ford go stagnent w/ the Mustang because there was no sector competition.
kmconcepts33 Camaro Phoenix Trans Am conversion kit, kinda nice, but it's a kit, not a turn key purchase. The nose looks way better though.