El Camino Is Coming Back In 2016

Chevrolet announced the revival of the El Camino coupe utility. But will it be a successful seller?

Coupe Utilities are cars with pickup beds. It seems like this is kind of a risky move considering coupe utilities have not been made and sold in the United States since the mid 1980s when the El Camino and Subaru BRAT were discontinued. Subaru attempted to reintroduce the coupe utility 10 years ago with the Subaru Baja, which was basically an Outback with a pick-up bed, but that was a commercial failure. It seems that in other parts of the world a new El Camino could do quite well such as Australia where the domestic car brand Holden still makes coupe utilities in the Australian market.

 

I saw a coupe utility on the road not too long ago. Maybe they are picking up on a trend, or have done some market research.

Low gas prices don't give much reason to prefer these over full size pick-ups.

If the price is right though, there could be a market for these.

 

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About 10 years ago, I had a (1983) Plymouth Scamp...which was just like the Brat, except (of course) it was a Plymouth. It was only made 1 or 2 years, and I loved that little car/truck.

However, it got to where it was hundred (or 2) dollaring me to death and I couldn't find a regular mechanic that could or rather would work on it. So, I got another car; but, I wish I hadn't sold my Scamp. Even though I LOVE my crown vic, I know I would really like an El Camino....and when I win the lottery I'll make sure and buy a new one.

 

thats really weird the mechanics wouldnt work on it...it was basically a regular old k car ..very easy to fix and parts easy to source

plymouth had scamp and i believe the sister car to it was the dodge rampage

 

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The straw that broke this camel's back with that car was when suddenly I couldn't get it to crank...it just made an awful racket and then nothing. I paid a supposedly (yeah supposedly is the operative word here) good mechanic who has good reputation around here to come and see what was the matter...he came, piddled a little while, and said "I don't know what is the matter with it!" After I sold it for next to nothing, I found out it was the freakin timing belt had jumped.

That still makes me sick when I think about it...oh, and I NEVER went to that stupid mechanic again. Nor have I said anything to anybody that would help his business. hehe

 

that sucks..it was probably the old 2.2L....takes 2 minutes to pop the upper cover off the belt and check

and when the timing jumps on those engines it doesnt damage anything else...///easy fix

 

Yeah I've had similar misfortunes with technicians telling me that my machine was irreparable. Not with car mechanics so much. More often with computer techs telling me I need a new computer when I didn't have to, and I listened. Gotta get a 2nd or 3rd opinion; that's the moral of the story.

 

Hold on... Chevy actually DID make a coupe utility-ish thing from '03-'06: the SSR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_SSR

This was a bigger failure than the Baja. I can't believe I forgot about the SSR. I dunno if you can call the SSR a coupe utility or not since it was constructed on the same chassis as a Chevy Trailblazer, making it more of a truck than a car.

 

:bigcry: :bigcry: :bigcry: ^ makes me even sicker than I already am. lol (and I'm honestly sick)

I now have an excellent mechanic that does all my work...I just wish I'd known them (its a shop) then. You're right though...I was just so tired of the struggle it took to get anyone to even look at my little car/truck. DANG IT! I loved having a truck bed and a car front. lol

 

I thought El Caminos were only good for Oz ranchers in TV shows.

 

human insanity proven once again. especially the obsession with trying to impress each other by being like and unlike each other at the same time.

 

I associate this car name strongly with My name is Earl

 

Shit, I completely forgot about that .... Loool.

 

This is an El Camino

 

I thought this was going to be about Camino de Santiago.
I wonder if Bird ended up doing it or not.

Nvm, carry on.

 

Imho, what is better than regret is to consider that you don't know where the other path might have led. Lets say you got the belt fixed for cheap, but then something else went wrong later on and you ended up crashing it and got seriously injured. When where you ended up is better than the worst case scenario of the other path, there is always a basis for gratitude.

I guess it's natural to be mad about things like this, but when you can't change what happened, it's still possible to change how you see it.

 

i like the chevy tornado

 

i prefer just having a big truck for big truck jobs and big trailer towing...a smaller suv for small truck jobs and smaller trailer towing and a micro car for runnings errands that dont require trucks