Chevrolet Camaro Convertible

20 November 2010

By Tim Pollard

Chevrolet has shown its new Camaro Convertible. No great shakes: it takes the stylish coupe and chops the top.

There's a 308bhp V6 or the 420bhp V8, and prices kick off around $30,000 - over there. Here, expect it to be in the high 30s with the base V6 coupe at around $33k.

Will the Camaro Convertible 'do a blancmange?'

The soft-top roof on the Camaro Convertible has an acoustic headliner to hush the whistles and whooshes of a cabrio and GM quotes a better torsional stiffness than a 3-series CC.

That's some claim, made possible by extra bracing under the bonnet, a stronger transmission tunnel and unerbody reinforcements.

'To compensate for the reduced structure of an open car, engineers often will make the suspension softer, making the convertible a boulevard cruiser,' said Al Oppenheiser, Camaro chief engineer.
'Instead, we took the more difficult, but better path of bolstering structure rather than softening the suspension. We didn’t change a strut, bushing or spring rate from the Camaro coupe.'

Footnote

The Camaro is now the best-selling coupe in the segment in America.

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