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Kevin @ Aug 13th 2007 2:53PM
@FRFan:
I suppose it depends on how you want to look at it-bloated in reference to the Nissan, or in reference to what the cars have always been? The Mustang has obviously gained a bunch of weight, but the Camaro, at least as far as I know, stayed pretty well constant at about 3200-3500lbs for its entire production run.
3500lbs isn't excessive, imo. 2450 is just extremely light. And you also have to consider that the last-generation Camaro was probably a good foot and a half or two feet longer than the Nissan. The Nissan is a very, very tiny car.
My point was simply that the Camaro/Firebird, GTO and Corvette aren't really to any great degree any more 'bloated' than they ever were, ESPECIALLY when you consider that the modern cars have things like airbags, a/c and power windows as standard equipment, abs, much stronger safety cages, all the extra emissions equipment (air pumps, egr, cats, etc.), and everything else that goes into a modern car that was either optional or unavailable when these cars were in their infancy.
Now, whether they're overweight when taken out of that context is an entirely different matter and it comes down to personal opinion. I don't find 3300lbs unreasonable for a car the size of the Corvette that has a V8 and all of the safety/emissions/comfort equipment that it does. Would you call a 911 bloated? The 997 C4s weighs in at 3252lbs ...
To me anything that weighs in much under 2900 or 3000lbs is a pretty light car; under 2500 is damn light. 3000-3500, even 4000 in some cases is pretty reasonable as far as I'm concerned.