First off, I respect Chris. I'm working with him on a project. He's a great artist and chopper. As you said, his Camaro concept and much of his other work was excellent. That's just it, though... they were great. Does that automatically mean all of it's going to be great? No. It doesn't quite work that way.
Second, I was only saying that I thought the design would have been presented better had he started from scratch, did all the sketching, then rendered it. You see... He only chopped a CTS (my bad on the STS part... the STS is just a blurry and stretched CTS, anyways).
Third, about the chop itself. He got alot of the details right, just not perfect in the execution of them (as in they don't appear as bold as what I've seen, which is about as much as what he's seen). I mean... you can look at it and it looks accurate. But something is just off. It looks a little bland and a little bloated. The face isn't as bold, the headlights are off (he admitted to me that he did his own thing with them), the stance looks higher than in the spy pics, and that decklid is more aggressive than it should be. Yeah, otherwise, he did in fact do a good job. The greenhouse (other than the unfinished interior) is pretty spot on. So yeah... perhaps half-assed wasn't the right way to word it.
Finally, what ever happened to respecting each other's opinions? I you should talk to yourself about "respect."