The Chevrolet Camaro, for many years the dream automotive of many teenage American males, goes out of production.
General Motors, which sells the brawny muscle automotive, said Wednesday it is going to stop making the present generation early next 12 months.
The long run of the automotive, which is raced on NASCAR and other circuits, is a bit murky.
GM says one other generation could also be within the works.
“While we will not be announcing an instantaneous successor today, rest assured, this will not be the top of Camaro’s story,” Scott Bell, vice chairman of Chevrolet, said in an announcement Wednesday.
The present sixth-generation Camaro, introduced in 2016, has done well on the racetrack, but sales have been tailing off lately.
When the present generation Camaro got here out in 2016, Chevrolet sold 72,705 of them.
But by the top of 2021 that number fell almost 70% to 21,893.
By the top of 2021, current generation Camaro sales fell almost 70%. AP
It rebounded a bit last 12 months to 24,652.
GM said last of the 2024 model 12 months of the cars will come off the assembly line in Lansing, Mich., in January.
Spokesman Trevor Thompkins said he can’t say anything more a couple of future Camaro.
“We’re not saying anything specific at once,” he said.
The present sixth-generation Camaro — introduced in 2016 — has done well on the racetrack, but sales have been tailing off lately. AP
The corporate, he said, has an understanding with auto-racing sanctioning bodies that the sixth-generation automotive can proceed racing.
GM could have parts available and the Camaro body will stay on the race track, he said.
NASCAR said that since the Generation 6 Camaro was in production when GM originally got permission to race, it stays qualified to race in NASCAR Cup and NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
GM will offer a collector’s edition package of the 2024 Camaro RS and SS in North America, and a limited variety of high-performance ZL-1 Camaros.
The collector’s edition cars could have ties to the first-generation Camaro from the Sixties and its GM code name “Panther,” the corporate said without giving specifics.
