[Spooner]

Autoweek blurb

Talk amongst yourselves. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I'd love to see something with the LS-6 or even the LS-2. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

For what it's worth, AW has also reported slow sales to-date on the Pontiac GTO, here.

Last time I visited a GM/Pontiac dealership, they had one GTO in the showroom and it was marked up $3,000 above the sticker price. So it was $37K or thereabouts. Hmm. I wonder if it's still there?

-John

[00 Trans Ram]

Personally, I'd really like to see a new F-body (would it still be called an F-body if it were new?) that has a stripper version starting around $20k. It would be offered with a smallish (3.8L) V6 and absolutely no frills (not even A/C or ABS). However, the body (body=chassis, body panels, and other non-moving parts) would be about the only thing not optionable. It would hearken back to the days of 6 page long option lists (none of this "package" crap, either!). You could order one with IRS or a live axle, because the engineer would have designed it to accept either. You could have it with the V6, a low HP V8 (maybe 300hp or so) and a high HP V8 (maybe 400hp or so). The option list would not charge you for taking things off (like "A/C delete") because they wouldn't be on there!

The reason I want a Camaro/Firebird that can still be had with a V6, leather, convertible, A/C, heated seats, power everything, auto, etc., etc., etc. is because that's what the girls will want. That is what will sell enough of these things so that the rest of us can have our light, powerful, well-handling race cars from the factory. Even though the Cobra is flashy, its the V6 Mustang that keeps the Cobra running, so to speak.

It will need to be smaller looking (you gotta admit, the 3rd and 4th gens look huge!), not as low slung looking (engineers can do amazing things with window placement, and door sills so that a car can be low, but not look low), and probably retro in the first incarnation (latest fad - it'll sell). While it looks like I'm in the minority, I actually like (more like LOVE) that 69 Camaro/Ferarri Modena drawing that some guy in Texas had floating around the internet about a year ago.