“Wow.” “New Camaro.” “Holy friggin neo-retrogasm, I want one.”

[DainBramaged]

Put an automatic transmission in a car, and you typically lose a few hundred (or thousand) bucks and that extra connection between man and machine. In the Chevrolet Camaro, you also lose 26 hp.

But you gain a free hand with which to return fist pumps or throw the bull’s horns to fellow F-body enthusiasts or crush Monster cans against your head. Also, you get simplified burnouts—billowing, tire-boiling annihilation is just a couple of stomps away. No tricky clutch-drop-to-brake dance or modulating pedal pressures, just mash the brake, mat the gas, and take a deep breath of vaporized vulcanized rubber. This—the ease with which it goes about its hooliganism—is what we imagine draws people to the automatic Camaro SS.

It also goes about its hooliganism rather quickly, with the 26-hp deficit going virtually unnoticed. The automatic Camaro went 0 to 60 mph in 4.8 seconds and through the quarter-mile in 13.3 at 107 mph, figures that are on par with those of other SS Camaros we’ve tested. The automatic gearbox costs either $995 or $1185 depending on whether you start with a 1SS or 2SS model. That’s because, on the 2SS, the automatic is bundled with remote start, which is unavailable on the 1SS. Our tester had only one other option, the RS package. For $1200, it gets you different wheels, unique taillights, HID headlights with halo rings (think BMW), and—joy of joys!—body-color drip-rail molding.

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/car/09q3/2010_chevrolet_camaro_ss_automatic-short_take_road_test

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/car/09q3/2010_chevrolet_camaro_ss_automatic-short_take_road_test/gallery

[dropkickpa]

1. hubba hubba!!! Bitchin' Camaro!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzPr4NkNeSo

[Blue_Tires]

2. i sat in it at the dealer and it was a surprisingly tight fit

good effort for a first-year rollout, but the model still needs some tweaking (and it needs to drop a LOT of weight)

[DainBramaged]

3. Light-weight cars and Government safety standards are not compatible

every car made in the past ten years has gained nearly 15% additional weight from improved safety equipment. It's just a fact of life. And it won't change unless we all move to Sumatra.

[Blue_Tires]

4. not just safety equipment

buyers now demand power seats and power everything, and loads of electronic trinkets -- that also bumps up the curb weight...

it's just a matter of engineering lightness in from the start of the design (which of course costs more money, so automakers only do it for high-end niche performance vehicles)...fwiw the Corvette's weight has remained pretty constant over the decade, so it can be done...

[Jetboy]

5. That car is mighty fine lookin'...

Man it's something else!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

7. But she don't notice me when I pass (she goes with other guys from out of my class)

...but that can't stop me from 'a thinkin' to myself...



:toast:

[Jetboy]

8. Yeah!

Luvs me some Eddie Cochran.

[Patiod]

6. My 86-yo Dad is driving this camaro....

1987

Actually, it was my mom's car. He wanted me to buy it from him, but I'm too tall to squeeze into it.

[MilesColtrane]

9. There's something I don't like about the way it looks.

It's hard to articulate.

It looks cheap and designed by a committee. The rear view is especially bad.

[DainBramaged]

12. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder..........

:eyes:

[rcrush]

10. Why does it look like a Dodge Charger?

Or kinda like a new Cadillac.

[RetroLounge]

11. Actually, the original Charger looked like the original Camaro

RL