"Despite the economic situation, we have 14,000 sold orders, which speaks for itself," Chevrolet spokesman Terry Rhadigan told Inside Line. "It's pretty encouraging. As we expected, of the 14,000 Camaros sold, the majority are the SS V8. Those are the enthusiasts who have been anticipating this car. Those are our loyalists. There are lots of manual-transmission models in there. After that pent-up demand for the SS model, we anticipate that it will settle down to a 65/35 split. About 65 percent of the Camaros we sell will be the V6 model."
Rhadigan would not divulge total volume expectations on Camaro for this calendar year. But he said that Chevrolet would not put a cap on production. "No," he said when asked about volume limits. "We aren't limited. We will build what the market will bear."
Chevrolet also had some good internal news on the 2010 Camaro fuel economy numbers.
Rhadigan said that engineers had anticipated that the V6 Camaro would return 27 miles per gallon in city driving; instead, it is returning 29 mpg. The V6 model returns 18 mpg in city driving, he said. The 2010 Chevrolet Camaro V8 gets 16 mpg in city driving and 24 mpg on the highway on automatic-transmission models. The manual-transmission models return 25 mpg, according to Chevrolet. The EPA has yet to post any official fuel economy numbers on 2010 vehicles.
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