Fans need not fear
After about nine years, the curtain will fall for the current Chevrolet Camaro in early 2024. Nothing is known about the arrival of a new Camaro, but enthusiasts of the pony car don’t seem to worry.
The current Chevrolet Camaro is the sixth generation of the model developed by General Motors in the 1960s. The Camaro had one important job: to tease the Ford Mustang. The Camaro that is still at Chevy dealers has been there since 2015. In January 2024, the very last units will roll off the line at the Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant in Michigan.
Chevrolet announces the end for the current Camaro, but not before releasing another special edition of the Camaro. It says it will also come with the Collectors Edition package that will be available for the Chevrolet Camaro RS and SS and on a handful of ZL1s. According to Chevrolet, the Collectors Edition package adds several references to the Camaro’s early days in the 1960s.
In an image of the written model name of the special Camaro, we see the silhouette of a panther in the letter ‘R’ and also in an image showing the Collectors Edition from the side, we see the ‘shadow’ of this animal. Why? During the development of the first generation Camaro, the car was still known under the code name ‘Panther’. Chevrolet says nothing about a successor yet, although it does indicate that “[…] this is not the end of the Camaro story.
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– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl