[VIDEO] Sixth-Generation Camaro Officially Done After 2024

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[VIDEO] Sixth-Generation Camaro Officially Done After 2024

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In a move that saddens all but surprises none, Chevrolet made their intentions to discontinue the current sixth-gen Camaro after nine years of duty official this week. The 2024 model year will be the final bow for the storied nameplate as we know it.

On the heels of a revived and hugely popular Fifth-Gen Camaro, the Gen-Six debuted in 2016, immediately garnering rave reviews for its impressive performance envelope and world-class chassis engineering. Its sports car chops even earned it Motor Trend Car of the Year honors and three-consecutive Car and Driver 10 Best nods. Sales-wise, though, it never lived up to the bar set by its predecessor. Between 2010 and 2015, the Gen-5 moved more than 75,000 units annually, reaching a high-water mark of 91,314 in 2012 on its way to an overwhelming segment lead over the venerable Mustang and the yet-to-come into its own Challenger. While dynamically superior in every way, Chevrolet’s 2016+ Ponycar has experienced dwindling demand. Out of the gates, it found 72,705 buyers, but that number fell to 50,963 by year three, and it hasn’t crested the 30k mark since the second of back-to-back facelifts took effect in 2020.

Blame for the slumping sales has been penned all over the place, from the conservative styling to carryover ergonomic issues like a lack of usable storage space and tank-like outward visibility, but it was a lack of attention from its parent company that ended up being the biggest nail in the Camaro’s coffin. Since the last major addition to the Camaro lineup in 2018, the Blue Oval has fielded special Bullitt, GT500, and Mach 1 Mustang models while the Challenger family tree has sprouted more than a half dozen new branches, many with headline-grabbing horsepower numbers. This external onslaught coincided with an internal situation where the Camaro’s “rock on” mission rarely overlapped with the new vision for GM, an advertising budget of next to nothing, and the debut of the most radical Corvette in history – one that famously and unprecedentedly outsold the Camaro for a time in ’22). But none of that mattered; the Camaro soldiered on with dignity. It wasn’t the sales champ, but it became the in-the-know driver’s choice (arguably the better title, anyway) that was always more than happy to show its newer, more expensive competitors a thing or two.

Sixth-Generation Camaro Officially Done After 2024

Chevrolet made a pair of promises when it broke the sad but inevitable Camaro news. The first is that while production at the Lansing Grand River plant will cease in January, the beloved muscle pony won’t be retired unceremoniously. A Final Collector’s Edition that “pays homage to Camaro, resurfacing ties that date back to the development of the first generation Camaro in the 1960s, most notably the program’s initial code name: Panther” is imminent. No further information about the “FCE” was given except that it would be available on RS, SS, and ZL1 models. We are hopeful that the ZL1 version features the ceramic stoppers and 668-horse LT4 update of the model’s long-rumored “Blackwing boost,” as that model deserves more ado than a simple smattering of paint and stickers. The second promise? That this is just the end of a generation and the Camaro will live on, for better or worse.


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2 COMMENTS

  1. This sucks balls, the blue oval boys are laughing at GM and the rest of us Camaro fans. Starting to dislike GM.

  2. RIP the two door Camaro that we all know and love. If there is a new Camaro my guess is it will be a Camaro in name only. I wouldn’t be surprised if it will be a sedan EV or SUV EV.

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