New Camaro's Interior is Hideous
"All in all, it appears that the production Camaro will retain more of the concept's flair than we thought, so kudos to GM for seeing it through." All in all, Autoblog is either deep in GM's pockets, completely bereft of taste or legally blind. Their spy pic demonstrates that the only thing more ghastly than the Camaro concept's interior is the production mule's interior. I mean, seriously, this has got to be the Pontiac Aztek of automotive interiors; a cabin so self-consciously designed yet so overwhelmingly cheap that I'm worried that this pic will turn TTAC readers to stone. Make that "stoned," and, as Frank remarked, it looks like a '69 Camaro on a bad acid trip. I love cars with stupid amounts of horsepower and serious exterior cool. But this… this makes me empathize with Oedipus Rex. In fact, one of our commentators recently remarked that he was waiting for the day when a member of the automotive press would boldly demand "WTF were they thinking?" Well, today's your lucky day. WTF were they thinking?
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While I’m not in love with the interior I think it works in this application. The center stack will get prettied up and I’d be surprised if redundant info like fuel, oil and temp are not also on the digital display between the Speedo and RPM (having them below the stereo is a bit of nostalgia like the mini). You can’t see it in the spy shots but you can in the concept. Also who is to say that the production interior won’t end up like the concept or pretty close once it’s complete? If you look at both they are very close it’s just that the materials used on this pre-production mule is poor. As I would expect them to be. I really think everyone is making a mountain out of a mole hill on this one. If you look at the photos closely you’ll notice that the front seats are different. One is power and one is manual. Should we jump on GM about that too? The Camaro is on the top of my shopping list for my next car and the last 4 cars in my family have all been Japanese so for at least one person GM might make a conquest sale. I also think GM will sell many of these as well as more than a few of the new G8.
Looking over the images of at Autoblog, about the only thing that can change between this and the final version is the display above the radio. Test mules are in final form with the exception of very minor details - it does no good to change a huge piece of the car if it hasn't been put through the grind. The molds are already cast by the manufacturer - they aren't going to retool the entire dash board and gauges between this and when the car goes on sale unless the public outcry is enough that they realize they need to change it. I'd be surprised (in a good way) if they changed it from what you see now.
It's obvious that the steering wheel is a new safety feature that makes airbags obsolete! You have your extra padded steering wheel that, in the event of a smash-up, tilts down to cushion the most vulnerable part of your body; your beer gut. The center console is what you get when you let Johnny 5: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Johnny+5&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2 mate with a GigaTube: http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=gigatube&btnG=Search+Images