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Camaro production to head back to the U.S. in 2015: Autoweek TV

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And also Ford has made nice cars recently too. I like better new Fords a lot too. My local area Ford store gives superior service to our local GM store. And takes great care of the radio group's needs. Our Ford Focus Wagons bought used and our new Transit Connect vans are superb. I like the Camaro.
 
Bummer. I like the fact that the Camaro has been a Canadian car for 2 decades. Best built Camaros of all time came out of Canada. I hope you Yankees can keep up the quality. ;)
 
I didn't even know they were built in Canada. And the way they market them here, you'd never get a whiff of that. I drove a 2011 when a client offered. Hated it. Horrible visibility, and unlike most cars where that's an issue, not just out back, but all the way around. I thought it apt it was shaped much like a coffin.
 
jaguar06 said:
Hated it. Horrible visibility, and unlike most cars where that's an issue, not just out back, but all the way around. I thought it apt it was shaped much like a coffin.
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Yeah, it is a sporty looking car, but that comes at a cost. It has a very narrow rear window, and the sides are vastly overshadowed by those massive curves above the rear wheels. It is a very hard car to see out of, moreso than a corvette even. Pretty nice car overall, though. I'm no fan of GM cars, but they are making much better autos than ten years ago, for the most part.

Not sure what a big move in production will mean for the car itself, but it's a nice thing to hear about industry being brought back into the states for once.
 
On a related note, the new Corvette C7 engine will be built at the Buffalo (Tonawanda) engine plant. This relatively new engine assembly plant 5 was built in 2001 and is truly state of the art.

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http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/news/2012/12/13/tonawanda-facility-will-make-engines.html
 
jaguar06 said:
I didn't even know they were built in Canada. And the way they market them here, you'd never get a whiff of that. I drove a 2011 when a client offered. Hated it. Horrible visibility, and unlike most cars where that's an issue, not just out back, but all the way around. I thought it apt it was shaped much like a coffin.
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Oddly, I was more comfortable in the Camaro then in my old XJS....
 
Bigerik said:
Bummer. I like the fact that the Camaro has been a Canadian car for 2 decades. Best built Camaros of all time came out of Canada. I hope you Yankees can keep up the quality. ;)
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Who do you think taught you guys how to build cars in the first place ? :smoke:
 
One of the SWANKIEST V-16 Cadillacs EVER made was built especially for R.S. McLaughlin, who eventually became president of GM Canada. I don't know if the car survived, it would be a NATIONAL TREASURE kind of thing if it has..
 
While I like the Camaro in the engine and drivetrain department, and am very impressed at the performance Chevrolet got out of a V6, the visibility is a major turn off. I have spasmodic torticollis and spasticity, I can't turn my head or neck very far. This design is a safety nightmare and is not very good in the ergonomic department.
 
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We learned by ourselves. :)

It seems McLaughlin later became GM of Canada and Sam McLaughlin later became a vice president at US GM .

I read a while back that A 1936 McLaughlin Custom design Buick limousine was built for King Edward VIII. Seems they made quite a few bespoke Cadillacs and Buicks as well
interesting read here about the historical Buick .
http://www.driving.ca/story.html?id=3fe29444-f10b-4358-9516-378cc957228e

Automobile manufacturing began in Canada in the early years of the twentieth century, a few years after it began in the United States. This is no coincidence, as the first Canadian automobile manufacturers started business as partners of established US companies, assembling and selling their partner’s cars in Canada. Dozens of Canadian entrepreneurs pursued this strategy, though only two truly succeeded – Sam McLaughlin, who made Buicks in Oshawa, and Gordon McGregor, who made Fords in Walkerville. By 1914, a Canadian automobile industry had come to be and its pattern of operations was set – it would make US cars in Canada.
http://www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/english/about/tra15e.cfm
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Canada's first large-scale automobile production began in 1904. The Model C Ford and later the Model T were produced at Walkerville Wagon Works in southern Ontario.
He didn’t make the first automobile in Canada; there were many other cars under development. He wasn’t the only one to design production lines, either. But in 1904, Henry Ford was the first to build cars on large-scale Canadian production.
Read more at Suite101: Canada's First Production Car:Ford | Suite101 http://suite101.com/article/canadas-first-production-carford-a25872#ixzz2Fqdsanag
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One could infer from reading the above if true that at least in part that the U.S. may in fact have at least taught the Canadian firms large scale mass production of automobiles.:smoke:
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Now thats some great news for the American economy and the American worker.
I sure wish they would bring all the Chrysler plants back Home.
 
They say that The Camaro and other later cars with higher beltlines and less glass are out of necessity due to newer rollover collision standards . I've noticed a lot of the roof lines seem to share some similarity in that regard also especially at the rear pillar desighns.

I have not driven a late Camaro they do look confining as do a lot of other newer cars . It seems like cameras ,adaptive braking,traction/ cruise controls and collision avoidance strategies unintended or not might become increasingly necessary with the poor outward visibility of many of the newer cars .
 
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