The Chevrolet Camaro sports car will be scrapped in the U. S. The U. S. economy will hit the U. S. early next year after nearly a decade of falling sales; However, its manufacturer promises that the iconic badge will return.
U. S. automaker Chevrolet showed overnight that the latest example of the Camaro, its challenger Ford Mustang, will roll off the production line in January 2024 after nine years of the existing model.
This includes two years in the Holden Special Vehicles showrooms in Australia between 2018 and 2020, thanks to a local left-to-right driving conversion in Victoria.
There appear to be no plans for a direct successor with two-door frame styling and petrol V8 engine.
However, Chevrolet says that “this is not the end of the Camaro story”: it remains to be noted in what form the nameplate is revived and whether it can be transformed into a sedan or SUV.
Reports about the Camaro’s removal have been swirling for about 4 years, but this is the first time its manufacturer has shown the future of the car.
Overnight news leaves the Camaro’s long-term run in the Australian V8 Supercar Championship, where it debuted in 2023 under the new Gen3 regulations, under a cloud.
Chevrolet says the Camaro will “continue to compete on the track” in Supercars, NASCAR, endurance racing and other racing series for the foreseeable future, and that it will work “with motorsports sanctioning bodies for Chevrolet’s presence in racing in the future. “
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While the Camaro is in Supercars right now, it’s unclear how long it will last and with what style it could be replaced one day.
The Camaro’s nameplate was undone in 1966 as a reaction to the original Ford Mustang, but it took a break in 2002 after 4 generations, before returning in 2010 and passing two more generations since, the last in 2015.
The newest Camaro officially sold in Australia for a brief period, it switched from left-to-right driving at a Melbourne factory via HSV from 2018 to 2020.
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There are other Australian links in the fifth-generation Camaro sold between 2009 and 2015, which was based on the same rear-wheel-drive Zeta architecture designed in Australia for the Holden VE Commodore.
The most productive sales year of the Chevrolet Camaro in the United States 2011, when approximately 88,200 were sold.
Sales have declined sharply since then, with 77,500 sales reported in 2015, 48,300 in 2019 and just 22,000 in 2022 (all figures are rounded).
The Camaro hasn’t maintained the lead in the U. S. muscle sales race. It has been in the U. S. against the Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger since 2015, and lost one position to the Dodge in 2018.
The Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger twice as many as the Camaro last year.
The American automaker announces that there will be one last batch of collector’s edition styles, before production ends at the end of the 2024 style year. Orders are expected to open in the U. S. U. S. in the middle of the year.
Chevrolet is believed to be running on a new-functionality sedan slated for 2025.
However, the U. S. reports. U. S. officials have indicated that this car can only be used to turn the Corvette brand into its own sub-brand, rather than carrying the Camaro brand, with electric sedan and SUV models joining the existing gasoline sports car.
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