The long awaited Chevy Camaro convertible will finally be available in showrooms by the end of February according to company sources. Lots of work has gone into the places you’d expect, the chassis and roof development. Using the same basic underpinnings as the hard top model, engineers added a front strut tower brace, additional bracing around the transmission, the transmission tunnel itself, and what engineers are calling V-braces front and rear in the unibody.
Interestingly, GM is touting the fact that the car has the same level of chassis stiffness as a BMW 3-Series convertible. We have no experience with 4th-gen Camaro convertibles, but the 3rd-gen models were even more squeak-a-delic than their tin topped counterparts. Manufacturing technology has advanced significantly since then and it is probably unfair to draw even faint parallels between those cars and this one that is on the way.
The roof itself if a neat piece of equipment. It has no ribbing in it and uses “knuckles” to fold up. The engineers did not want to have a top that took away from the design of the car and they appear to have succeeded in our eyes. They created a piece that really looks damn close to the standard roof line, which is a rarity among convertibles. One of the reasons we’re generally put off by convertibles is that obvious styling difference. Simply put, this one looks “right” with the top up.
The drivetrain options are the same as can be found in the rest of the Camaro line and pricing for the baseline six popper equipped car starts at $33,995 and the bad ass SS starts at a rich for our blood, $43,255.
