No more Vettes. A man got's to know his limitations. The Camaro is a beast but it is not a beast like a Corvette. It does not have the same primal growl. There is a reason a Corvette costs two or times more.
This is not expressing any dissatisfaction with the Camaro. It's a great car. It just relates to a Vette or a Lotus the same way a poodle relates to a Yukon sled dog.
>Well, if you decide to let the horses of your Lady in Red (coke bottle cars are always feminine in my eyes...) run unencumbered, visit a certain hold-out country in the middle of all those other countries occupied by speed limits... Have fun with her (and the colour is better than lime green IMO). And if your kids start up on you, just tell them the car was their fault: if there were no 2 daughters, you would have gone straight for the Audi RS or another Vette...
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>>After nearly a week of waffling back and forth I finally bought the damned thing yesterday. Yes, I am the proud new owner of a bright red Camaro. I guess I listened to the voices I wanted to hear, the ones urging me to indulge myself a little. Not having bought a car in 10 years, and with this model being pretty feature laden, the controls and options are a little bewildering. I am setting aside a couple hours today to actually RTFMs and drive around a little, experimenting. It comes with free OnStar for six months. The last I knew OnStar was for emergency roadside assistance, like when you get in a crash. Now it includes voice assisted turn by turn navigation directions. Also 300 minutes of cell phone usage. You can also link it to your cell phone for hands free calls using your phone's contact list. (Call Bill Kuhn, that conservative SOB, LOL Beware.). The salesman showed me three different ways of activating OnStar, which I do not have straight yet. It also comes with a 3 month intro subscription to SiriusXM, with a nifty console display. He demonstrated that I can program up to 36 satellite channels right alongside AM and FM favorites. As a demo he programmed saved favorite #1 as 90s Rock Classics. (Were there any?) I said let's try XM channel 20, E Street Radio. Bingo. "Thunder Road." IMO they overplay the hell out of it but it was nice encountering an old friend in a new car.
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>>Now here is the embarrassing part, except I find it amusing. It's a stick shift. I have driven those for a long time, but every one is different. The Jetta I drove for the last 10 years has a very forgiving clutch. The Camaro, not so much. If you don't give it a good kick in the butt into first it stalls. I stalled it once right there on the lot and then two or three more times turning left onto Route 12, which is a pretty busy highway. The salesman and the other sales guys out on the lot having a smoke must have had a good laugh. That's OK. By the time I was home I already kind of had the hang of it.
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>>For the rest of the day and through the night I only turned on the garage light to look at it about once an hour.
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>>UPDATE: This is not the one I bought, but very similar.
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