Automotive Wallpapers: Chevrolet Camaro Red Flash Show Car

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The design of the all-new Chevrolet Camaro has been acclaimed by critics and celebrated by sports car buyers. With that appeal as a springboard, Chevrolet designers created the Red Flash Camaro SS Show Car to extend Camaro’s look – and even its sound – to a new level.

Red Flash combines Chevrolet Accessory parts available today with some specially designed new concepts from the design studio, resulting in a unique new Camaro statement. Its Red Jewel exterior color is accented with gray heritage stripes and gray-accented 21-inch wheels. Under the hood, a Chevrolet Accessory air intake kit and, out back, the accessory exhaust kit, enhance the car’s performance, style and sound.

“The Camaro Red Flash is the opposite of a ‘sleeper’ on the street,” said Adam Barry, lead designer. “From every angle, it looks and sounds like the high-performance sports car it is. It’s a model for the enthusiast who doesn’t want to hide his performance aspirations.”

It also wears Chevrolet Accessory body-color ground effects, high-wing rear spoiler with black-painted stanchions and other gray accents. A lowered suspension lends a more aggressive stance.

Inside, the Red Jewel features an Ebony leather-trimmed cabin with titanium stitching and red accents on the seats. There’s also a custom steering wheel, racing-style pedals and red LED lighting for the door trim.

VEHICLE HIGHLIGHTS

Exterior:

• Red Jewel color

• Heritage hood stripes in gray

• Chevrolet Accessory high-wing rear spoiler (body color with black stanchions)

• Chevrolet Accessory ground effects (body color)

• Chevrolet Accessory 21-inch wheels with gray inserts

• Camaro badges with chrome edges and gray inserts

• Body-color antenna

Interior:

• Ebony leather with titanium stitching and red accents on the seats

• Prototype Chevrolet Accessory racing-style steering wheel with flat bottom

• Red LED lighting in door trim

• Red footwell and cupholder lighting

• Chevrolet Accessory racing pedal kit

• Chevrolet Accessory floor mats and cargo mat

Performance:

• LS3 6.2L V-8 with Tremec TR6060 six-speed manual transmission

• Chevrolet Accessory air intake and exhaust systems

• Chevrolet Accessory engine cover in Red Jewel

• Chevrolet Accessory Hurst shifter with custom stone-color stitching on the boot and shift knob

source : Chevrolet Press

Automotive Wallpapers: Chevrolet Camaro Red Flash Show Car

Post by: Automotive 

The design of the all-new Chevrolet Camaro has been acclaimed by critics and celebrated by sports car buyers. With that appeal as a springboard, Chevrolet designers created the Red Flash Camaro SS Show Car to extend Camaro’s look – and even its sound – to a new level.

Red Flash combines Chevrolet Accessory parts available today with some specially designed new concepts from the design studio, resulting in a unique new Camaro statement. Its Red Jewel exterior color is accented with gray heritage stripes and gray-accented 21-inch wheels. Under the hood, a Chevrolet Accessory air intake kit and, out back, the accessory exhaust kit, enhance the car’s performance, style and sound.

“The Camaro Red Flash is the opposite of a ‘sleeper’ on the street,” said Adam Barry, lead designer. “From every angle, it looks and sounds like the high-performance sports car it is. It’s a model for the enthusiast who doesn’t want to hide his performance aspirations.”

It also wears Chevrolet Accessory body-color ground effects, high-wing rear spoiler with black-painted stanchions and other gray accents. A lowered suspension lends a more aggressive stance.

Inside, the Red Jewel features an Ebony leather-trimmed cabin with titanium stitching and red accents on the seats. There’s also a custom steering wheel, racing-style pedals and red LED lighting for the door trim.

VEHICLE HIGHLIGHTS

Exterior:

• Red Jewel color

• Heritage hood stripes in gray

• Chevrolet Accessory high-wing rear spoiler (body color with black stanchions)

• Chevrolet Accessory ground effects (body color)

• Chevrolet Accessory 21-inch wheels with gray inserts

• Camaro badges with chrome edges and gray inserts

• Body-color antenna

Interior:

• Ebony leather with titanium stitching and red accents on the seats

• Prototype Chevrolet Accessory racing-style steering wheel with flat bottom

• Red LED lighting in door trim

• Red footwell and cupholder lighting

• Chevrolet Accessory racing pedal kit

• Chevrolet Accessory floor mats and cargo mat

Performance:

• LS3 6.2L V-8 with Tremec TR6060 six-speed manual transmission

• Chevrolet Accessory air intake and exhaust systems

• Chevrolet Accessory engine cover in Red Jewel

• Chevrolet Accessory Hurst shifter with custom stone-color stitching on the boot and shift knob

source : Chevrolet Press

Automotive Wallpapers: Chevrolet Camaro Red Flash Show Car

Post by: Automotive 

The design of the all-new Chevrolet Camaro has been acclaimed by critics and celebrated by sports car buyers. With that appeal as a springboard, Chevrolet designers created the Red Flash Camaro SS Show Car to extend Camaro’s look – and even its sound – to a new level.

Red Flash combines Chevrolet Accessory parts available today with some specially designed new concepts from the design studio, resulting in a unique new Camaro statement. Its Red Jewel exterior color is accented with gray heritage stripes and gray-accented 21-inch wheels. Under the hood, a Chevrolet Accessory air intake kit and, out back, the accessory exhaust kit, enhance the car’s performance, style and sound.

“The Camaro Red Flash is the opposite of a ‘sleeper’ on the street,” said Adam Barry, lead designer. “From every angle, it looks and sounds like the high-performance sports car it is. It’s a model for the enthusiast who doesn’t want to hide his performance aspirations.”

It also wears Chevrolet Accessory body-color ground effects, high-wing rear spoiler with black-painted stanchions and other gray accents. A lowered suspension lends a more aggressive stance.

Inside, the Red Jewel features an Ebony leather-trimmed cabin with titanium stitching and red accents on the seats. There’s also a custom steering wheel, racing-style pedals and red LED lighting for the door trim.

VEHICLE HIGHLIGHTS

Exterior:

• Red Jewel color

• Heritage hood stripes in gray

• Chevrolet Accessory high-wing rear spoiler (body color with black stanchions)

• Chevrolet Accessory ground effects (body color)

• Chevrolet Accessory 21-inch wheels with gray inserts

• Camaro badges with chrome edges and gray inserts

• Body-color antenna

Interior:

• Ebony leather with titanium stitching and red accents on the seats

• Prototype Chevrolet Accessory racing-style steering wheel with flat bottom

• Red LED lighting in door trim

• Red footwell and cupholder lighting

• Chevrolet Accessory racing pedal kit

• Chevrolet Accessory floor mats and cargo mat

Performance:

• LS3 6.2L V-8 with Tremec TR6060 six-speed manual transmission

• Chevrolet Accessory air intake and exhaust systems

• Chevrolet Accessory engine cover in Red Jewel

• Chevrolet Accessory Hurst shifter with custom stone-color stitching on the boot and shift knob

source : Chevrolet Press

2011 Cadillac DTS Review

Eras end. Driven by changing tastes and the aging of customers, Cadillac will stop making and selling the big DTS sedan (the modern-day version of the Sedan DeVille) at the end of the 2011 model year.  It will be replaced by the XTS, a car that will almost certainly be targeted to the tastes of Baby Boom luxury car buyers...and thus, at Lexus, Audi and BMW.



It's easy for Boomers to ignore and even ridicule the DTS, a car you're most likely to find in retirement communities, parking lots of restaurants serving the Early Bird special dinners and the occasional rental fleet.



But it's also wrong.

At a base price of $46,680, Cadillac's biggest sedan is $3500 less than the BMW 335is coupe. Apples and oranges, you say? You're right. Let's put the DTS against the least-expensive big Bimmer, the 740i sedan.



The Cadillac is $24,000 less. It has more room, costs less to insure, maintain and license and the highway fuel economy difference (23 mpg for the Cadillac, 25 for the BMW) is negligible.



So what's it like to drive? I hadn't had the opportunity in 7 years (even GM's press fleet folks have been treating the DTS like a stepchild), so I rounded one up through alternative sources for a week.  No, it's not meant for blasting through winding mountain roads (newsflash: neither is any Lexus save the IS-F).

What it is is quiet, smooth, responsive, and, given its size and lack of cutting-edge handling hardware, remarkably agile.  The people who've eagerly shelled out $65K for Escalades but wouldn't give a DTS the time of day would think they're driving a sport sedan by comparison. They'd also find they and their passengers are as or more comfortable and they could make a nice dent in the power bill with the money they save on gasoline.



Something I learned programming popular music radio back in the day: There is such a thing as out-hipping yourself, walking away from things of value to a mass audience in the pursuit of image. A week in the DTS has me strongly suspecting that we'll miss it once it's gone.