5th GEN CAMARO - Modern or Retro styled..Opinions?

[JohnnyGMachine]

Hey all,

I'm currently working on designs right now for what I think the 5th generation Camaro should look like atleast in my mind. I will be posting pics of these designs hopefully by the first week of September. While working on my design the thoughts that I keep in the back of my mind while I'm doing this is whether it should be Modern or Retro. Retro would be very much like what Ford did with the Mustang, a modern interpretation of what a late 60s Mustang would be like today. Modern would be no retro cues really, and would be very high-tech, low slung, and pushing the envelope as far as a fresh new approach to what a modern Camaro would look like. I've drawn a 5th Gen Camaro in what I thought a modern direction would be with mixed but positive results. This was done for a 5th gen design contest on GMI website a year or so ago. It came in a close second to a more retro themed design. It wasn't about winning but I thought it might help me to prove a point and I think it did to an extent. On that very website and many other GM enthusiast based websites, the new Mustang and Jay Mays were being bashed for not being original and that retro design is just a cop-out. Then when the design contest results were final, everybody loved the retro themed Camaro idea...hhhhhhmmm. Fast forward to today - The new Mustang is a runaway hit! They can't make 'em fast enough and I've even heard dozens of GM, even Camaro enthusiast, say that they just may have to buy that new Mustang and that they wished GM would do something like that. Well now with GM possibly showing a Camaro concept, according to rumors, it sounds like the Camaro guys are getting their wish.
So the question is - what would YOU buy...a RETRO designed 5th gen Camaro or a MODERN design 5th gen Camaro?

Hey Scott, maybe we should have a poll on this what do you think?

John