Will They Sell 100?

by Edward Niedermeyer

Published: February 16th, 2009

Autocar reports that GM will import 100 left hand drive Camaros to the UK. All UK Camaros will come with GM’s 500bhp 422bhp 6.2 liter V8 and will list at 35k pounds sterling ($50k). But will anyone short of the Hamster (get it? He’s short!) actually buy one?

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No_slushbox on Feb 16, 2009
Steven Lang: Someone with whatever accent you are impersonating probably would think that the British are sophisticated; the rest of the world knows that Britain has increasingly poorly performing school children, is run rampant with chavs and has trouble employing unskilled workers. Americans should thank Britain for knocking the US off the top of the "countries whose tourists other countries hate" list. I don’t know what Clarkson’s religious ethnicity is; he is effectively atheist, which I give him credit for. However, he does have a notorious German obsession, possibly only because that country actually makes cars. I'm sure defunct-now-Chinese Rover used twist-beam rear suspensions, but so do many of the other cheap European hatches. Nothing wrong with that, it's a cheap, reliable setup, but Clarkson's out of touch with reality mocking non-independent suspensions when most Europeans don't have a car with an independent suspension. The BLS is not a classic American car, it is a FWD Saab. The cars I refer to are 300Cs, Mustangs, Corvettes, etc. There was a niche of Europeans buying them as a middle finger in the air to gas taxes and greens, and also simply as something unique, but, as I said, the recession is probably making even that niche buy more conservative cars.

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Matt on Feb 16, 2009

I love that quote from Clarkson: "We need some sophistication. Let's call the Australians."

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Ronman on Feb 17, 2009

What's up with GM and their power ratings these days? i read somewhere that the 6.2 V8 powering the CTS-V delivers 609hp (556 net). 609 might sound nice in adverts, but in reality the people that care to buy these cars do know the difference and care about how many ponies will be galloping when the rubber meets the road. so i guess it's the same thing with the UKamaro, 500Hp are actually 422net. i guess people should carry magnifying lenses when they read GM product ads. to read the fine print, if there is any....

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2ronnies1cup on Jun 10, 2011

Some time after the fact, but maybe a useful datapoint- My two-houses-down neighbour bought one - don't ask me where the money came from. It's now been sitting in his driveway for the past year amidst an ever-widening puddle of oil. \probably not a reflection on the quality of the car in question - said neighbour has been banned from keeping animals since he didn't realise that if you chained up four bull-terriers in your back yard you should at least throw them some food now and then.

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