It ends with a Camaro concept car from the 2006 North American International Auto Show.

To me, it looks a lot like the remodeled Mustang and Charger that have come out in the last year or so.

Of course, the TIA Camaro could look nothing like Chevy's idea of a "21st Century Camaro."

- Zatch

Yeah, the 2009 Camaro concept car owes a lot, stylistically, to the original 1969 Camaro Z/28 - though it doesn't owe as much to its '69 predecessor as DaimlerChrysler's 2009 Dodge Challenger concept car, which looks, uh, pretty much exactly like the 1969 Challenger.

More and better pictures of the concept Camaro can be found here, and there are links at the bottom to a couple of other Automobile Magazine articles on the Challenger concept as well. I'm quite fond of the artist's conception interior treatment for the Camaro - though as my father pointed out, the gauge package down by the shifter looks cool, but it would mean quite a long look away from the road to actually check them.

I did, in fact, have the '09 Camaro on my mind when I wrote the scene in TIA #1 with Ben Stark's Camaro in it. It's not quite the same car - for one thing, as far as I know GM isn't planning to offer a turbine-powered version of the '09 Camaro (if the car enters production at all, which wasn't a sure thing by any means the last time I checked). Still, it wouldn't be unheard-of for the car to have basically the same body shape for 10 model years or more. The "second-generation" Camaro was produced, with styling changes to be sure, but without a major platform overhaul, from 1970 to 1981, and the third-generation version from 1982 to 1992.

(I had an '89 Camaro RS in high school and college, which is why the HL version of me has the sup4 l33t future-tech version. And no, I did not guido it all up, although the kid Dad sold it to when I pissed him off in '92 did, just before he wrapped it around a telephone pole.)

--G.
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