And those are fighting words. There’s nothing we love more than some good old fashioned pony car rivalry. Although many muscle cars have gone away, the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro rivalry burns just as vivid as it did decades ago.
Sitting down with Mark Reuss, General Motors’ product chief, he made it very clear the Camaro team paid no attention to Ford and their all-new Mustang. The 2016 Chevrolet Camaro is set to raise the bar, not follow a standard.
“We did the car way before the new Mustang came out,” Reuss said. The Camaro never exactly had to play catch up with the Mustang either. The Camaro has offered an independent rear suspension and other performance bits to match, and sometimes, surpass the original pony car. The fifth-generation Camaro has also consistently outsold the Mustang, and it wasn’t until recently with the launch of the new Mustang the Camaro lost the lead.
The 2016 Chevrolet Camaro sounds like it won’t be playing much follow the leader. This could mean the absence of a four-cylinder model in the Camaro lineup, something Ford bet on and has so far been rewarded for. It may also mean new innovative features, and even engines. Al Opphenheiser seems to be semi-keen on the thought of a twin-turbo V8 engine finding its way under the hood of the new Camaro, and carbon-fiber wheels seem like a must since the GT350R has arrived with a set.
We won’t have to wait too much longer, though. The 2016 Chevrolet Camaro will finally show face at a special event for the car on May 16th in Detroit. Until then, the Camaro rests on its laurels for only a short period of time.
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If anything the Mustang just caught up with more weight and a independent rear.
Chevy is doing their thing and Ford is doing theirs. When you are in the same segment and with the limitations of todays regulations you are going to be pretty close to each other no matter what the other guy is doing.
I’ll put my money on GM. GM has by far much better engineers. It may not have seem so years ago, but that’s when the engineers hands were tied. Not today, they are not and you will find out GM really knows how to build vehicles.
@Joe Gm has better engineers?? What are you talking about. Each company has their pros and cons, for instance The GT350 has the biggest flat plane crank V8 in production thats a big engineering challenge that no other oem has ever done while GM is still stuck using pushrod engines and also Ford is the first oem to ever put carbon fiber wheels in a production car.
Besides the fact that ferrari used carbon fiber wheels like 15 years ago, oh and lotus offered it, koneigsegg, and Lamborghini both had carbon fiber options. So ur statement might be better corrected to state that, “The mustank was the first pony car with factory carbon fiber wheel options,” then you might have an argument. 🙂
Mustang has been more than not faster in the straight aways then camaro for a long time. Now with the irs they can be faster in the turns . either way u slice it though both cars are great cars today and would blow the doors off of their older/classic versions of themselves! It’s a great time to buy a fast car!
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