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New Chevy Camaro Readers Preferences Survey
By Rick Jensen
Your New CamaroIn our May 2007 issue, we unveiled a survey to determine what type of Camaro you would buy once it's available, and what you would do to it. More than 1,500 of you took the survey online or sent in your ballots, and here are the results: HOW MUCH ARE YOU WILLING TO SPEND ON A
NEW CAMARO? | | $20,000-$25,000 | 13.1% | | $25,000-$30,000 | 33.6% | | $30,000-$35,000 | 31.6% | | $35,000-$40,000 | 13.6% | | $40,000-$45,000+ | 7.8% | | ARE YOU PLANNING TO WAIT A YEAR OR TWO, OR WILL YOU BUY A FIRST-YEAR MODEL? | Buy a first year
| 36.8% | | Wait a year or two | 63.1% | | WILL YOU BUY A COUPE OR A CONVERTIBLE? | | Coupe | 83.5% | | Convertible | 16.4% | | WILL YOUR CAR HAVE AN AUTOMATIC OR A MANUAL TRANSMISSION? | Automatic
| 22.8% | Manual
| 77.1% | | ASSUME A V-6 CAR WILL COST $20,000, A BASE V-8 $25,000-$30,000, AND A HIGH-END V-8 $30,000+. WHICH ENGINE WILL YOU CHOOSE FOR YOUR CAR? | V-6
| 1.7% | | Base V-8 | 22.0% | | High-end V-8 | 76.2% | | WHAT TYPE OF ENGINE WOULD YOU ORDER, GIVEN THE CHOICE AND A $45,000 BUDGET? | Big-inch, naturally aspirated
| 57.6% | | Forced-inducted | 42.3% | | IF THERE’S AN OPTION FOR A STRIPPED-DOWN V-8 VERSION, WOULD YOU BUY ONE? | | Yes, I love a cheap stripper | 48.2% | | No, I like my ride loaded | 51.7% | | HOW WILL YOU USE YOUR CAMARO? | | Street use only | 38.8% | | Some drag race | 40.8% | | Some road race/auto-x | 14.1% | | Heavy drag race | 3.0% | | Heavy road race/auto-x | 1.5% | | Drag race only | 0.5% | | Road race/auto-x only | 1.0% | | HOW MODIFIED WILL YOUR NEW CAMARO BE? | | I'll keep it dead stock | 8.2% | | Simple bolt-ons with basic tuning | 55.8% | | Heavy engine mods with advanced tuning | 17.3% | | Blower/turbo/nitrous with advanced tuning | 9.2% | | Heavy engine mods, advanced tuning, blower/turbo/nitrous | 7.7% | | Full-on race car | 1.6% | | IF YOU PLAN TO MODIFY YOUR CAR, WHICH MODS WILL YOU DO FIRST? | | Free mods | 13.8% | | Tuning | 70.8% | | Heavy engine mods with advanced tuning | 6.4% | | Blower/turbo/nitrous with advanced tuning | 4.7% | | Heavy engine mods, advanced tuning, blower/turbo/nitrous | 4.1% | | ASSUMING AN LS-STYLE PUSHROD ENGINE, WILL YOU: | | Perform your own work/mods | 36.0% | Take your car to a shop for work/mods
| 9.3% | | A little of both | 54.5% | ASSUMING THE CAMARO HAS IRS, WHAT WILL YOU
DO TO IT? | | Leave it as-is, fix if it breaks | 49.4% | Upgrade to stronger IRS components
| 35.4% | Live-axle swap
| 15.1% |
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