2019 Chevy Camaro: A Horrible Styling Mistake?
Love it or hate it, the restyled, grille-heavy 2019 Chevy Camaro has split our nation like a good old fashioned political debate!
It hasn’t been long since we first laid eyes upon the refreshed 2019 Chevy Camaro. And yet, its controversial restyling is still quite fresh in everyone’s mind. Some like it, most hate it, but is the slightly tweaked front end really that bad? Well, some people sure think so. Including Jalopnik’s Patrick George, who goes so far as to call the 2019 Chevy Camaro a “horrible mistake” and a “modern tragedy.”
Pretty harsh, we’d say. And a notion that fellow “Carguments” host Mike Ballaban doesn’t exactly agree with. But even Ballaban admits that the new Camaro isn’t “the best looking car of all time,” as if anyone would go that far. Oddly enough, his choice for that distinction is the obscure Saleen S7. Huh?
Meanwhile, George has a strange distaste for grilles, apparently. And he calls the 2019 Chevy Camaro “all grille,” with “tiny little headlamps” which are tinier than before. Ballaban’s counter argument lies in the fact that “all cars have giant grilles these days,” which is pretty much true. But even we are having a hard time justifying the, uh, upper grille on the new Camaro. I mean, do you really need another, smaller grille to accentuate the large, lower grille? Or is this just too much grille?
Hilariously, George uses the ages old “if your friends jump off a bridge” example to explain why Chevy shouldn’t follow the big grille trend. Ballaban likens it to the Camaro’s transformation from muscle car to sports car, one that requires loads of air to cool its engine at the track. Or, as George believes, maybe this was Chevy’s admission that they should have made more extreme design changes with the introduction of the 6th gen Camaro? In the end, the duo just can’t come to a consensus, much like the rest of the world. So what do you think? Let us know in the comments below!
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