Testing of camaro continues

[71novaSS]

according to my dad who works and saw them he said their going to be realsed to employes to driv ehom a year or 2 before they come out with them and he said hes good friends with the guy in charge of it so we may have a chance to have it at a MEEET!

aslong as he never finds out i drove his company ctsV while he was ouof town

[willasc]

according to my dad who works and saw them he said their going to be realsed to employes to driv ehom a year or 2 before they come out with them and he said hes good friends with the guy in charge of it so we may have a chance to have it at a MEEET!

aslong as he never finds out i drove his company ctsV while he was ouof town

They may drive them for testing for up to a year, but it would be for testing and validation. No manufacturer would drive them for a year to "see" what happens, which is what accelerated testing is all about. If it's captured test fleet, that might last a few months at best, right before launch.

[71novaSS]

They may drive them for testing for up to a year, but it would be for testing and validation. No manufacturer would drive them for a year to "see" what happens, which is what accelerated testing is all about. If it's captured test fleet, that might last a few months at best, right before launch.

yeah he does the emisisons stuff with cardaqs and programs the tech2 ptrocol stuff

[MiT/A'96]

Stingray is the ONLY name that should be put on
a Vett,no other seems right !!!!

[meissen]

I doubt it'll be out on the road until only a few months before. I have a friend who's high up in GM, knew all about the Camaro long before it was released to the public, took a test drive in the Z06 with him (scared the piss out of me, but that's another story) and that was only 6 months or so before launch.

[MikeM]

I doubt it'll be out on the road until only a few months before. I have a friend who's high up in GM, knew all about the Camaro long before it was released to the public, took a test drive in the Z06 with him (scared the piss out of me, but that's another story) and that was only 6 months or so before launch.

You're right Brian. I bring m-plates home quite often. They generally hit the road no earlier than 1 year before production. And they do NOT let us take one home without full camo, until the production version has been "revealed" at one of the annual auto shows. Generally with a car in full camo, you have to have a chase vehicle at all times with you and a locked garage to put it in when you get where you are going. Performance testing and durability testing is mostly done at the proving grounds, not on public roads. Once the reveal happens, which is usually between 3 and 6 months before launch, then you can take them home uncovered and show them off to everybody.

Any employee caught parking a proto vehicle in a public place, and allowing the public to look at it before the press launch, would be out of a job ASAP. Lucky family members and a couple of neighbors may get a sneak peek sometimes, but that's about it. I'm sure GM's policies are no different from ours. I'd love to see the Camaro at a meet, but it probably won't happen until 2009.

If I can, I'd love to bring a Challenger to the 2008 M&G . . .

[MiT/A'96]

That sure would be kool !!!!!

[96mikez28]

very cool