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Originally Posted by TAKerry
JS, I love it too. Great looking car. I always liked the new camaro. Bought my wife a new mustang conv. a few years ago for payment to her for putting up with my 77 build. I was pushing a Camaro hard to her but she has been a mustang girl since day one. Its also a really nice car.
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Agree that Camaro pictured looks nice. My wife also ended up with a 2011 Mustang GT 6-speed. She drove both a Hemi Challenger with a 6-speed and a Camaro with a 6-speed. She is 5' 2" tall and small stature. She felt the Challenger was too big and bulky for her. Heavy steering, very high doors and kind of spongy and unresponsive. The Camaro just didn't fit her well either. She had to have the steering wheel in her face/chest to operate the clutch. She couldn't see out of the car in any direction, even with the seat all the way up. She loved the way the Camaro sounded, the instant torque and the acceleration was mentioned several times. But I could see the car just didn't fit her. It was also the most expensive of the 3 cars we looked at by almost 7K in the case of the Camaro. I reluctantly took her to a Ford dealer to look at a Mustang with the new 5.0L engine. She instantly fell in love with the way she fit in that car. She could see out the front and sides and even out the back a little. The clutch operation was light and perfect for her shorter legs. It took her a couple blocks of driving to get used to the lack of torque from the OHC engine. But after stalling it a couple times she got the feel of letting it rev more to launch the car from a stop especially on a hill. IMO, the quality of the interior, dash, door panels, console, seats, was much higher grade than the Camaro and Challenger. Exterior styling was OK to me. Wasn't crazy about the rear end look. But that's purely subjective. Bottom line is 50% + of all new car buyers are women. If the car doesn't fit half the buyers and make them feel welcome and comfortable, that's one reason Camaro sales tanked. Also, my wife's Mustang GT Premium, 6-speed was just a tick under 30K new in 2011. The similarly equipped Camaro was just over 37K. That's quite a difference and the Chevy dealer didn't act like they cared a less if they sold it or not. Ford dealer was happy to order a car exactly like we wanted or sell us one in stock or trade from another dealer. They wanted to sell a car.