Roots of the production Camaro

[Monster Dave]

I came across this today and was suprised to see that this must have served as the test bed for the production Camaro as it ultimatly was copied and slightly changed to fit the Camaro platform

1999 Pontiac GTO concept:


Camaro:


GTO:


Camaro:



Anyone else see this similarity before?

[NAKID]

Don't think I've seen that concept before, but I think anyone can see the similarities...

[Monster Dave]

Don't think I've seen that concept before, but I think anyone can see the similarities...

I wonder if it got moth-balled and then it was dusted off for the Camaro design team?

[superjohn]

They both look like bloated '68 Camaros so it'snot surprising. Ever since VW did the new Beetle that whole modern retro thing has been all the rage.

[He Man]

The new GTO is pretty much a copy of some austrialian branded car. im glad they didnt do the same with the Camaro.

[Randimus Maximus]

The new GTO is pretty much a copy of some austrialian branded car. im glad they didnt do the same with the Camaro.

It was simply a rebadged Holden Monaro.

The G8 is a rebadged Holden Commodore.

Both built in Australia and shipped to the US.

[x136]

1999 Pontiac GTO concept:

Yeesh, it looks like a car you'd see in an 80s movie set in the future.

Ever since VW did the new Beetle that whole modern retro thing has been all the rage.

I seem to remember the Plymouth Prowler starting the whole retro thing. The New Beetle is the more popular of the early models, of course. By the time the PT Cruiser came out a few years later, the trend was pretty played out, as far as I was concerned. Yet here it is, ten-ish years later...  

[herm]

no,........
everyone knows that the new camaro design is based of the exoskeletal design for the transformer known as bumblebee.

that design BTW, came from something called the cube...

[NAKID]

that design BTW, came from something called the cube...

Otherwise known as the all spark...