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Transformers Special Edition Chevy Camaro Unveiled
roelbj writes "Automotive stories are few and far between on Slashdot, but today's news from Chevrolet might just make a few readers' mouths water at the chance to own their own Bumblebee. Today at Comic-Con, General Motors officially announced the 2010 Chevy Camaro Transformers Special Edition. The $995 appearance package can be applied to LT (V6) and SS-trim Camaros in Rally Yellow with or without the optional RS package."
I don't want a Bumble-Bee! I want a Crazy Frog!
...this is pretty awesome. That being said, they absolutely should make a Decepticon option for the appropriate cars.
Ryan - http://www.thecosmotron.com/
Can someone explain it to me with a robot analogy?
FRA: STFU GTFO
... to advertise a franchise?
the only Camaro option that won't help you get laid.
Neither GM nor Chrysler will "get it".
Why should they?
They have governed by finance pros instead of by engineers.
Finance pros are more concerned with short-term profits than long term growth.
It takes someone with FORD CEO's instinct to think ahead.
And being finance pros, they can blackmail the government into funding them into eternity.
Gordon Gekko was absolutely right when he said: "The new law of evolution in corporate America seems to be survival of the unfittest."
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
If you keep it in the box.
The marketing picture used in the link makes use of a visual illusion that is achieved by overlapping the two tyres surfaces from opposite corners. This effect draws a tyre that is very wide and we associate it with power and stability.
I look at it this way. I have a 2000 TransAm WS/6 edition. It's a special edition car, and always will be.
I've known of people who buy the V6 Firebird. They'll swap in the LS1 engine. Then they'll get the body parts from aftermarket vendors to match (nose, hood, tail wing, etc). Then they'll get the logos, decals, etc. They'll put it all together, and have pretty much the same car. Sometimes they'll forget something, like the suspension, exhaust, original wheels, etc. It won't quite be a WS/6, even though it will look like it. Regardless of how perfectly they reproduce it, mine will always be an original WS/6. Theirs will be a modified car similar to the WS/6.
If they ever go to sell it, a VIN search will show that it has the wrong engine, and that particular one didn't come with WS/6 performance package.
To a collector, my car with very few modifications is worth a whole lot more than a car made to emulate it.
In my area, with the mileage and options my car has is will sell retail for $11,300. Someone who modified a regular Firebird (Formula) to look like my WS/6, assuming the dealer overlooked the fact that it was modified from original (which lowers the value), it would only retail for $8,400. As a private sale, the modified car may go for more, but that's all in your salesmanship.
You're not only paying for $20 worth of plastic trim, you're paying for the fact that a particular vehicle was originally sold as that vehicle.
Would I buy the Transformers special package? Probably not. It's kinda silly and childish. But hey, whatever. Some people may like that. It will remain a special edition car, which will always have it's bragging rights. What if someone just adds on their own parts later, and says it's the special edition? Well, when you look it up, you'll find that it isn't. You'll also likely find that they missed some detail in their conversion.
When I work on cars, that's something I hate more than anything. Someone along the line will have converted something, and then you have to figure out what they did so you can get a replacement part that fits. I don't know how many hours I've spent in parts stores with a broken part, asking them to look up various years and models of similar cars to see what some small part came off of.
Serious? Seriousness is well above my pay grade.
Capitalism is the system in which US politics and corporations has been living in the last half-century or more.
I WISH!
No, you're not even close. The system that our government and the larger corporations have created isn't capitalism, it's a rehash of mercantilism. Capitalism is a system of free markets, in which information is conveyed through profits and losses. By insulating larger players from their losses, the government robs us not only of the wealth they loot from us through taxation or inflation to give to these incompetents, but they also keep resources misallocated.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."