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DoubleF · 05-25-2015, 02:05 PM

My bad on the American Muscle part. The sales lady at Alamo was trying to explain the Camaro was their premium convertible and worth upgrading from the Mustang. I misunderstood it.

With the basic V6, I was hoping it would be comparable to my TL in terms of feeling and acceleration, it wasn't. My TL is much smoother. But again, I believe the issue was perhaps the fuel in the Camaro and apparently because it's a convertible.

Fuel economy I was driving on average something like 60 miles a day on mostly freeways with the occasional 1-2 mile stop and go in between (ie: PCC back to Honolulu for the day or North Shore to Honolulu being the longest trips). I dunno, maybe I am way off or reading everything in Miles and Gallons is throwing me off even if the numbers are good. I got around 350 miles on the full tank (About 560 km on the tank). Hmm.. I guess you're correct, that's pretty close to what I get in my daily driver. Must be the miles/gallons throwing me off.

The steering wheel thing was me being dumb. I didn't see the lever after leaning in and looking for it and repeated checking below the steering wheel and feeling around blindly with my hands. I found that lowering the seat reasonably "fixed" my issue and after 3 days just gave up looking for it. I know how to do it on my car and other cars, but for whatever weird reason, I couldn't locate the one in this Camaro. I know it's not hard, I just couldn't find the lever even though the booklet said it was on the side. I couldn't look it up on my phone either as I had no data in the States. Now that I looked it up (took several sites), it looks like the lever is in the gap between the steering wheel and the boxy thing the steering wheel sits on. No bloody wonder, I couldn't find it. I wasn't even looking in the correct place as I was checking all facets of the boxy part /facepalm.

I absolutely would believe that driving a Z28 would be completely different than the convertible version. I never tried to assert all Camaros were the same. I was trying to respond to Polak about the lower end unmodded versions. ON a side note, I know not much about cars and not much of a car guy... so I probably shouldn't be giving my 2 cents either. Sorry.

05-25-2015, 02:05 PM	#733
DoubleF Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2014 Exp:	My bad on the American Muscle part. The sales lady at Alamo was trying to explain the Camaro was their premium convertible and worth upgrading from the Mustang. I misunderstood it. With the basic V6, I was hoping it would be comparable to my TL in terms of feeling and acceleration, it wasn't. My TL is much smoother. But again, I believe the issue was perhaps the fuel in the Camaro and apparently because it's a convertible. Fuel economy I was driving on average something like 60 miles a day on mostly freeways with the occasional 1-2 mile stop and go in between (ie: PCC back to Honolulu for the day or North Shore to Honolulu being the longest trips). I dunno, maybe I am way off or reading everything in Miles and Gallons is throwing me off even if the numbers are good. I got around 350 miles on the full tank (About 560 km on the tank). Hmm.. I guess you're correct, that's pretty close to what I get in my daily driver. Must be the miles/gallons throwing me off. The steering wheel thing was me being dumb. I didn't see the lever after leaning in and looking for it and repeated checking below the steering wheel and feeling around blindly with my hands. I found that lowering the seat reasonably "fixed" my issue and after 3 days just gave up looking for it. I know how to do it on my car and other cars, but for whatever weird reason, I couldn't locate the one in this Camaro. I know it's not hard, I just couldn't find the lever even though the booklet said it was on the side. I couldn't look it up on my phone either as I had no data in the States. Now that I looked it up (took several sites), it looks like the lever is in the gap between the steering wheel and the boxy thing the steering wheel sits on. No bloody wonder, I couldn't find it. I wasn't even looking in the correct place as I was checking all facets of the boxy part /facepalm. I absolutely would believe that driving a Z28 would be completely different than the convertible version. I never tried to assert all Camaros were the same. I was trying to respond to Polak about the lower end unmodded versions. ON a side note, I know not much about cars and not much of a car guy... so I probably shouldn't be giving my 2 cents either. Sorry. Last edited by DoubleF; 05-25-2015 at 03:05 PM.