Chevrolet Camaro production ended this week, wrapping up a sixth generation that dated back to 2016, the company confirmed to Road & Track on Friday. With no new Camaro generation expected any time soon, the GM pony car that dates back to 1967 is going dormant for the second time in the past 20 years.In a statement issued to R&T by email, the automaker emphasized its love for the legacy model.
"Camaro is a passion product," the statement reads. "It has developed a fan base across the world and has brought people into Chevrolet dealerships for generations. The sixth generation specifically represented athleticism and composure – exuding confidence on the road and dominance on the track."
Unlike Chrysler's recent announcement of the end of 300C production, the brand has yet to put out an official announcement or share any details about the final Camaro to roll off the brand's Lansing assembly plant.
The sixth-generation Camaro lasted nine years, but it received few major refreshes after a 2019 facelift. It also did not receive the wide variety of new performance variants that kept its Challenger and Mustang rivals fresh in showrooms for their long lives. Still, the ZL1 1LE variant stands out as among the best performance cars GM has ever made.
The Camaro has already returned after going out of production once. That gap in pony car history lasted from 2003 until 2010, ending when Chevrolet introduced the fifth-generation car. GM has said that the end of the sixth-generation Camaro "is not the end of Camaro's story," but the brand has shared no details on an immediate successor and no pony car-sized development mules have been spotted in circulation. For now, and for the second time in the car's history, a lineage that dates back more than 50 years is paused.
really liked this camaro... prefer it to the mustang. as article says though, it went away and came back so i expect it back at some point.
bad *** electric most likely.
Watch prices for new gas-powered Mustangs jump. It is losing one of its two primary competitors, and will likely lose the other one (Dodge Challenger) very shortly.
Sales were plummeting like a rock the last several years. Investing billions into a new generation of a gas guzzling ICE muscle car that sells 20,000 units a year was probably not going to get much sign on from the leadership.
Sales were plummeting like a rock the last several years. Investing billions into a new generation of a gas guzzling ICE muscle car that sells 20,000 units a year was probably not going to get much sign on from the leadership.
You are absolutely right. It's still a shame though, since the Alpha platform is absolutely superb.
I never liked Camaros but sad to see it die as well as the Hemi cars - Charger, Challenger, 300C.
It’s definitely end of an era of affordable ICE sports cars.
Chevy should have at least done some special final model like Dodge did.
Those damn V8 Camaros were really hurting the environment sitting inside a garage or at a weekend Cars and Coffee…..
Sales were plummeting like a rock the last several years. Investing billions into a new generation of a gas guzzling ICE muscle car that sells 20,000 units a year was probably not going to get much sign on from the leadership.
Sales sucked because Camaro was hideous.
Vette has no issues with sales and uses same LS engine so not sure why GM would need to invest Billions of dollars.
They flushed away Billions on the Volt, Bolt, Hummer and many other dumb upcoming EVs that nobody wants. The Camaro was actually bringing in profits until they messed up the styling.
normally this wouldn't be such big news for me, but in this case i'm sad just because of the ZL1 1LE model... idk how many similarities carried over from other trim levels but that ZL1 1LE version is a genuinely remarkable engineering feat and it gave me a rare case of patriotism toward one of my country's vehicles lol
back in 2018 it did a 7 min 16 sec around the nordschleife! for some context, that's still faster than a current porsche 911 turbo s and only 3 seconds slower than a porsche 918, meanwhile the camaro is about $170,000 less than the turbo s, and nearly a million less than the 918... would i still take the porsches? absolutely lol but in terms of performance per dollar i'm still in awe! oh and the camaro driver still had to actually shift his own gears too
I had one as a rental and it was nice enough despite the poor rear visibility. I'd still take a Mustang over it especially after the last Camaro refresh.
I hope it's ok with the OP, here is one my my favorite cars back in the day.
Bought it just a couple years old and it was cherry with low miles but can't remember the exact year.
Late 1980's Camaro Berlinetta, Black with T-Tops, closest pic I could find like the one I had.
That's somewhere between an '82 to '85. In '86 they tacked on the third brake light on the upper portion of the hatch glass. It was moved to inside the glass in '87 and to the spoiler after that. I bought my first new car in early '86. I wish I still had this.
It is losing one of its two primary competitors, and will likely lose the other one (Dodge Challenger) very shortly.
