'Chevrolet Camaro 2016' – Will it win the 'Muscle Cars' race with a lean, mean body?
The Chevrolet Camaro 2016 is soon going to be tearing up the roads with a lean and mean body. Prices are out and the "Muscle Car" will soon be at your dealers.
The entry level Chevrolet Camaro 2016 is priced at $26,695. This includes a $995 destination charge. This is about a $2,000 increase from the previous Camaro. For the V-6 Camaro, the price is $28,190 including the destination charge. For the V-8-powered Camaro SS, you will have to pay $37,295, the $995 destination charge included. This puts the Chevrolet Camaro's price higher over both its rivals - the Ford Mustang and the Fiat Chrysler Dodge Challenger, according to Motor Authority.
The same site also says that General Motors has announced that only the Camaro coupe with V-6 and V-8 engines will be available this year. The Camaro convertible will be coming in sometime early next year.
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This is a risk that Chevrolet has taken knowing fully well that the Ford Mustang is ahead of it in sales. Last year, around this time, the earlier version of Camaro was in first place. But the Ford Mustang overtook it. Now, Chevrolet wants its title back. Obviously, the engineers at Chevrolet have put in a lot of hard work and made some amazing changes in it to race against its arch rival, the Ford Mustang.
What makes the Chevrolet Camaro 2016 a good buy even at its higher price is the new powertrains it's based on. It has taken the GM Alpha architecture from Cadillac ATS and CTS which has made it 28% structurally rigid, claims Chevrolet. The smaller Alpha architecture means that the Camaro engineer have chipped away all over, getting rid of excess weight bit by bit and have come up with a weight that is approximately 200 pounds lesser that the outgoing Camaro.
The new and improved Chevrolet Camaro 2016 is lighter, more powerful and has standard technologies like an OnStar 4G LTE Wi-Fi hotspot, Apple CarPlay, a driver mode selector and backup camera and Chevrolet's very own - MyLink infotainment system.
With US car sales looking up, it is no doubt that the Chevrolet Camaro 2016 will clock up good sales numbers. It remains to be seen, however, if it manages to take a lead over the Ford Mustang.
