Al Oppenheiser Explains Customization On The 2016 Chevrolet Camaro
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Personalization is becoming a big trend in the automotive world. Buyers are looking for more features to make their car feel unique and different from any other on the road. The 2016 Chevrolet Camaro is no different and besides an incoming of aftermarket parts, the 2016 Camaro can be tailored as soon as you step inside.
Al Oppenheiser, Camaro chief engineer, explains just how owners will be able to suit their car to their liking straight from the factory. And we’re not talking about special appearance packages, or decals. We’re talking about the features found on the 2016 Camaro regardless.
Oppenheiser gives an example of the new “mode colors,” which may be personalized depending on which driving mode is selected via the dial. Blue is standard on touring mode, but maybe you’d like green. No problem, says Oppenheiser.
Other features ready to be tweaked per the driver’s input are the exhaust note, the steering and the throttle response.
The addition of these features comes from many hours of input from current Camaro owners, and Oppenheiser says he and the Camaro team visited many shows to hear input on what owners have done, and what they would like from a new Camaro.
The 2016 Camaro is a people’s car through and through, and we can’t wait to experience the final product first hand. In the meantime, check out with Oppenheiser has to say down below.
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While they’re at it, care to explain how Mr. Oppenheiser allowed the four cylinder he said he’d kill the Camaro would never receive? I think we all know the answer to this, but I’d like to hear it from him…..
People get overruled. CAFE trumps pride today… elections have consequences.
One win Al appears to have gotten, there won’t be any “shell game” like there is with the Mustang. Today you cannot order a Mustang Premium with a V6 engine – you’re forced into the EcoBoost I4 if you want any of the advanced safety features or seat options.
A huge backfire for Ford… Case-in-point: My mom would have bought that over her M Sport-optioned 335i – she wanted a top-tier Mustang with the V6, and Ford wouldn’t sell it to her.
That won’t be the case with the Camaro. You’ll be able to get the V6 with the options you want.
Yeh..I think Ford effed up making the ecoboost the mid model. I bet Ford ups the V6 performance and makes it again the mid level model to match the Camaro. No one wants to spend mid model money on a 4 banger when you can get a 6, turbo or no turbo.
He is an engineer and only so much say.
He originally wanted the smaller coupe and lobbied for it but with slow sales there was no buisness case for it.
Al was in the group that wanted the 4 in the smaller car and he lost out.
Third fight go on often but seldom do any of them speak in public.