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Although nowhere near perfect execution it is cool to see Lingenfelter make the effort to revive the Trans Am.



The nose needs to go on a bit of a diet and the taillight area needs a complete rework.

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2009 … vegas.html

Has that one been produced 'in the flesh', Bren, or is it just a rendering? If we are picking from drawings I'll take this one.

Those Firebirds look a little too much like the Camaro. Overdone and it could easily be mistaken for the Camaro. GM, carbon copying your cars is not cool.

Last edited by gd (2009-11-11 9:28 am)

Yeah?

gd wrote:

Those Firebirds look a little too much like the Camaro. Overdone and it could easily be mistaken for the Camaro. GM, carbon copying your cars is not cool.

Firebirds and Camaros have always looked the same just with a different front and rear end.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_F_platform

gd wrote:

This just too much! I thought those were renderings.

how so? ... the Lingenfelter isn't a render.

WhirlinGraphics wrote:

Although nowhere near perfect execution it is cool to see Lingenfelter make the effort to revive the Trans Am.

http://www.autoguide.com/gallery/galler … G_8818.JPG

The nose needs to go on a bit of a diet and the taillight area needs a complete rework.

http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2009 … vegas.html

I see what they where going for. The nose looks like it has a little of the old school Trans Am/ Firebird (very little) when it comes to the front grill, but your right, it needs to lose lots of weight on the nose.

gd wrote:

Those Firebirds look a little too much like the Camaro. Overdone and it could easily be mistaken for the Camaro. GM, carbon copying your cars is not cool.

Um.. FireBirds and Camaro's always looked similar. Just a few tweaks here and there. They are all sold by GM.
All American car & truck make a double with a couple of light changes and /or add on's.

Ford:
Expedition


Lincoln Navigator


GM:
Yokon Denali


Cadillac Escalade




Chrysler:
Dodge Grand Caravan


Chrysler Town & Country


*note  Picked SUV's/Trucks because didn't want to look for all the cars GM, Ford, and Chrysler dropped.

Never before had I seen the similarity between the escalade and the denali. Most of those are acceptable but the camaro and firebird are almost identical. Plus these are muscle cars. It wouldn't hurt to make some more differentiation between them.

Word is that the head of Cadillac has a framed picture of a Cimarron in his office with the phrase "Lest we forget".

No, it was definitely their worst car. The V8-6-4 had an unacceptable rate of failure but hey at least they were trying something that the rest of the world wouldn't attempt for 20 more years and the rest of the car was fine. The bustle-back Seville was also fine, just aesthetically questionable.

I mean, at least the Buick Skyhawk and Pontiac Sunbird had their own sheet metal. Hell, the Buick even had a turbo option for theirs. The Cimarron looked like someone glued Cadillac badges on a Cavalier and didn't do a thing for the rest of the car.

Bren wrote:

Strangely enough, back when the Cimarron was a current model, I recall Car and Driver or Motor Trend reporting that it happened to be the fasted car Cadillac had ever sold in the US. Hard to believe. I'm not absolutely sure as to whether they meant this in terms of top speed or acceleration. I want to say acceleration.

One would think that in all of Cadillac's prior history, at least one of their 500 cubic-inch V8 models would have at some point posted a better 0 to 60 time than a V6 Cimarron, but I guess maybe not.

Gotta be acceleration. The V8 monsters had theoretical top speeds in the realm of Mach 1. Even with the weight and wind resistance of the barges they were attached to they still produced immense torque and healthy horsepower.

And yeah, the V-6 wasn't strong but it was an 80s Cavalier with 3.83 rear ratio.

Last edited by Tallgeese (2009-11-14 12:09 am)