Whether the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro will be dropping in on the North American International Auto Show in Detroit later this month is anyone’s guess. Certainly, there’s been no official confirmation.
But if you’re itching to sneak a peak at the future pony, you’re in luck; below is a video showing yet another rendering by Camaro6 user ‘chazcron.’ And this time, we get to see the new car’s every (projected) angle.
If we take it as a given that the rendering is reasonably accurate, the 2016 Chevy Camaro won’t have changed much from the current, fifth-generation car. The hood has smoother, Stingray-esque valleys flanking the power bulge, and the pointed nose looks more pronounced (which seems to be a recent Chevy design motif). Otherwise, individual lines and contours seem to have evolved very little, and the rear of this car rendering – though an improvement – is nothing more than an educated guess.
Even still, it has us excited; the less development money that goes into styling, the more is left over to optimize the new, more lithe Alpha platform. We’ll take this rendering as proof that this was the primary reason for a new Camaro: firing back at Ford.
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What the hell are you talking about saving money with the styling?
Even if this car has some similar styling the entire car is new and not a single panel or bit of styling has not be completely redone.
The styling cost just the same on this car no matter if it looks like this or looked like a completely different theme.
This new car has the same aero testing if not more, Same clay time, Same computer time, Same crash testing and all other aspects that need to be addressed with a completely new car.
There was not major savings here of any kind. They put the same investment in time and money in this new model as they would any other new car. If you know how cars are developed then you would already know that.
Now on the other hand if you want to be happy about the extra money post bail out GM has this time to properly develop and refine this car over past Camaro models where they often spent most of the money on engine and suspension only to run short with the interior you can be happy here with that. The past F body manager Scott Settlemire has spoke how the budgets they used to have to work with always left them wanting more to finish the job.
FYI the tail lamps are still a guess.
Also there has been testing of hoods with larger flat extractor vents on each side of the hood
Don’t expect much from this writer… He is the same person that made that stupid NRA joke earlier.
Maybe he should spend more time learning for his job.
It figures….. Amateur!
May be he could write for MSNBC where the fact matter little.
First of all, the platform is not new and please don’t pretend to be dumb to this fact to appear intelligent. The fact is that the new Camaro is simply a re-skinned Cadillac and the writer was trying to be kind to GM by stating that hopefully the drive train was improved since there is no tooling costs for a new platform. Putting a new shell on a Cadillac hardly requires very much research and development.
I am not sure if Aaron is a worse writer or you are an even more inept troll.
We all here are very aware that this is the new Alpha platform but this is the first use of it in this configuration. It will not share the same width or wheel base as the Cadillac’s
What it will share from Cadillac is the investment that ill make the refinement of the new Camaro to surpass the improved Mustang refinement we have just seen.,
This is not just a reshell of the platform but a whole new development of this platform.
This I GM not Ford We don’t F$ck Around like Ford! Watch and learn.
Apparently, anyone who disagrees with you is a troll and you are the only person entitled to post comments in regards to this article. I supposed also that you are not aware that GM can modify the wheel base on the Alpha platform to make a 2 door, 4 door and even an SUV Cadillac CTS without incurring substantial retooling costs. A valid observation made by Aaron Birch should not be discredited based on you bias opinion.
Just the clueless fan boys.
The more you post the more you show how little you understand how this works.
Apparently, you aren’t aware that the Chevrolet Silverado and the GMC Sierra share the same platform with different body panels. As stated by GM, the new 2016 Chevrolet Camaro will “share” the Alpha platform with the Cadillac CTS. A platform is designated as new when it is not used to manufacture different versions of older models. That said, the research and development costs will be lower than expected for the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro as Aaron stated earlier.
Apparently you have little clue on how the Alpha works.
Yes the trucks pretty much are the same under the skin. No one disputes that.
While the Alpha is a platform it is not identical under each car as it is a very expandable platform. While it may share some design and some strucuture it is not identical on each applications. It does save on design work on the chassis but that was not Aarons point as he was commenting on the styling.
Point is the ATS rear end will not bolt directly into the CTS nore the Camaro as the cars are different widths.
The Alpha has very flexible hard points [do you even know what that means?] and the ability to be lengthend and widened in ways the Zeta and other older platforms could not be. This allows the many things to be shared but also it means other things will not be shared depending on the model being used.
But back to the origial point Aaron made there is no real cost savings on the styling of the car looking similar to the past model since there is nothing carried over. His comments had nothing to do with the platform what so ever.
Here is what he said
” less development money that goes into styling, the more is left over to optimize the new, more lithe Alpha platform”.
He is speaking only on the styling of the car not the Alpha saving money.
Have you ever heard of the saying “same song second verse”? I appreciated your detailed definition of this saying to explain the new engineering attributes of the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro platform on behalf of all the other readers of this article. I bet you watch Fox News too.
I quoted him on what he said and stated that the styling is not going to save a dime.
If you want to talk platforms yes the Alpha will save engineering money but not styling money.
If you can not understand the simplest of terms, I even gave you the direct quote I was referring too and it had nothing to do with engineering.
I have sung this some everyway I can to get my point across and you still want to argue about a point I never brought up in the first place.
You must watch MSNBC with the other 14 people that do.
Scott: Less tweaks equals fewer drafts.
BS nothing is carried over and the rest went through the same process.
Just because it may look similar saves nothing. Just the size change alone changes everything.
Aaron how can you defend you statement? This is not like they are carrying anything over. All the body parts are completely new here and all have to be totally redesigned to a smaller platform. There is just as many so called drafts and tweaks as with any other new car.
You would be better off not trying to defend your mistake. The hole just keeps getting deeper.
God I hope you are an intern and not getting paid.
Wow, you sure have to squint to see that this is not the current car, other than the hood louvers. I sure hope there is more of a difference than this.
Retro is out. I want a MODERN Camaro. And ditch the pointy nose, for god’s sake.
It’s just a cartoon somebody made..it’s not a real Camaro.
The guys at Ford are salivating.
boring…same basic car…just smaller….I will keep my Gen5 if this is all they are going to do to it..
As for the other sad sacks let them finish the real car and form an informed opinion on something real and not some cartoon.
All these renderings are getting “old”. The real deal better make an appearance soon just to put the peanut gallery to rest.
I had been expecting Detroit as a surprise but it may now be NYC. This is where the last Camaro intros have been.
It will not be much longer as these cars are very close to done for show use as the late tinkering will go on till production starts.