Biggest Letdowns
Nissan displayed their new Sentra, but you would have thought that it was a GM product from 3 years ago. After the beautiful Z, Murano, G35, and M35/45 that they’ve rolled out over the last few years, I expected more from them. Especially after the aggressively styled Sport and AZEAL Concepts that they rolled out at the autoshows last year.
Subaru brought nothing to the table for this year’s NAIAS. I was hoping for an STi version of the Legacy or at least the availability of the 6sp Manual throughout more of it’s lineup (it’s currently only available in the WRX STI) but instead they just showed the same B5-TPH Turbo Paralell Hybrid concept they debuted at Tokyo…
Chevrolet rolled out the Camaro Concept, and that’s all it is… a concept. It will be 2009-2010 before this car sees a showroom floor, if it ever does. In addition to that letdown, the car itself is a letdown to me. Dodge nailed the Challenger, and the car that started the Muscle Car rebirth, the Ford Mustang, is selling like hotcakes. Chevy needs to go back to the drawing board.
January 10th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Honda for the win!!
Give me a RSX with 2.2L of Turbocharged Goodness, 8000RPM, and SH-AWD with a manual and I will sell my balls for it.
January 11th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
That Chevy looks like a Ford Mustang…
January 25th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
I disagree with you somewhat about the Nissan Sentra…considering that it’s not even the back of small car buyers minds right now, piggybacking off the success of the Maxima and Altima seems like the way to go. There HAS to be a great performance version out of the box (SE-R) or it’ll be all for naught.
The Camaro concept? Won’t even make it to production.