Update: Photos of the 1:3 scale model of the Camaro design study will be removed for the time being. So for now, here’s the Transformers 4 Bumblebee Camaro.
The sixth-generation Camaro isn’t do out until 2015 or so, but a recent photo gallery found online could be hinting at what the 2016 Camaro will look like. Specifically, this small-scale model shown above.
Immediately, we see some design cues in the front clip that could be traced back to the 2014 Chevrolet Impala, and that doesn’t appear to be a bad thing in the least. Meanwhile, the rear fascia takes the four tail lights, and shapes them into a more radical look. The huge air dams on the sides are also a nice touch.
Considering the nature of the model — being that it’s small, has exaggerated features, and no mirrors — it could be nothing more than a sixth-generation Camaro design study. But perhaps a very, very close design study, as the URL to the original source of the photos on Behance.net no longer exists. We’re sure that the 1:3 model has evolved into a more polished look, and could very well be GM design chief Ed Welburn’s “current favorite” design that he hinted to us back in Los Angeles last month.
The 6th Gen Camaro will utilize GM’s favorable Alpha RWD platform, and will be built in Lansing, Michigan alongside the Cadillac ATS and CTS.
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Don’t anyone get too excited as this is not the car. It is just a design study.
Think of this as like the Stingray Show car vs. the production Show car if it is even sharing that much.
What you see here would never go production without a lot of major changes. It is just clay and only a half model at that.
As of now those who have seen the real thing are not talking or leaking photos.
GM may have leaked this just to stir the pot while Ford is getting some attention on the new Mustang. You do have to let them know you are just just sitting around doing nothing but you also can not show what cards you are holding.
^That is most certainly true.
It doesn’t look enough like a camaro. Certainly dropped the retro look. The current camaro is such a good looking car. I think the rest of the chevy line needs more of the camaro influence.
The new mustangs popularity will be short lived once the new camaro arrives
Build this as is and I will do something I never thought I would ever do…
… Pre order a car.
I see a Firebird not a Camaro.
Well according to what GM has been coming out lately, don’t be surprised if it is radical either.. And do you guys remember the 5th gen Camaro Concept was almost identical to the production Camaro? I understand that the front glass won’t be like that neither the rims.. but the design cues would definitely make a great Camaro.. I’m sold just hope they don’t wrap it in plastic.. 🙂
Manoli, I agree that it would be cool if most of the design elements on this study find their way onto the next Camaro. But, I have to disagree on the huge air dams on the sides. I think they are overdone to the point where they look downright silly. Hopefully they would tone them down.
Big mistake. Current camaro is a classic. Would you do this to the 911?
Put a very similar looking car to the current on the alpha. Use some aluminum to get it light. Give an interior near the level of the c-7.
The Camaro is not in the same league as the 911.
Well to stop the dreaming the elements on this car are just no where near production. The Quarters have so much flair they would do nothing but eat rocks from the front wheels and would look sand blasted in a year. Just ask a HHR owner that has no running boards.
Second there is no real function headlamp that would be DOT approved.
Third the nose would never pass a crash test.
People do not confuse the 5 Gen show car and the production car for a design study car. Cars like this in Clay are done often and generally never see the light of day as they are more brain storms than anything else. Yes the tail light idea may carry over in some form. Also the quarters can have a flair similar but no where near as large as this.
They take ideas from 4-5 design study clays and then distill them down to a much more producible idea that often becomes a show car. Now Some show cars are closer to production than others. The present car was made a little more producible but it also pays the price in sight lines and an interior that should have been changed. This is not just my opinion but many who were on the Camaro program would also like to have redone it but they were told to stick to the show car.
In the long and short of it you can take some ideas away from here but it is not going to look just like this. Everyone gets excited to see cars like this but in the real world they are not always as sweet and do hamper sales at time with poor ergonomics and other issues. If it were a limited low production car you can get away with some issues but on a mass produced car you can not turn people off if the styling is too much to the point it makes the car difficult to live with.
Just ask a SSR owner how he likes that he has to open the door every time he as to adjust his seat. On the SSR you can get away with that but not on a mass produced Camaro.
As for the Mustang you guys had better take it seriously. I am a Chevy guy and GM lifer but the Mustang is not going to lose much market share and may just gain some till the new Camaro comes out. Ford did a good job keeping some old but advancing the styling to where they can sell it anywhere in the world. GM has to face this same challenge where it will be a modern design but it still has to look like a Camaro.
This is not a 911 as they do not sell near as many of them as a Camaro and they have a small segment that love what ever they do. To me the car is boring as it always looks the same even if it is totally new under the skin. In a way they are trapped in the design and this is why we have the Cayman and other models now.
If you go back over the Camaro history they have had 4 distinct styles and each one did well. The fifth was the first that carried a lot of an older style and it worked this time. But moving on this car is going to be sold in more places than just here. Retro means little in many parts of the world so there has to be a solid original styling element as they can not just rely on retro alone.
Also if they do not do something some what original where will the future classics come from. To me Retro is an easy way out if you have no good original Idea’s. GM has a solid styling staff as we have seen in the Elmirage and other new concepts so I would like to see them do something fresh and original but still would not be mistaken for anything but a Camaro.
That is what they did with the Corvette. If anything they robbed a little from Ferrari there but over all they did something new fresh for the most part and not mistaken for anything but a Corvette.
If anyone wants a 69 Camaro then just go by one.
Of course not. But for the chevy brand it’s the best they got. Corvette is great, but it’s not a chevy, it’s a corvette.
You’re going to have a hard time getting anyone but yourself to believe that the Corvette is not at the core of Chevrolet. A whole lifetime has gone by, and the Corvette name is indelibly etched into and inexorably tied to the name Chevrolet.
Even the Europeans, with the recently withdrawn Chevrolet brand, closely associate the Corvette and the Camaro with Chevrolet than compact 4-pot people movers.
The Corvette has ALWAYS been a Chevy.
With the exception of 1983, when no Corvette was fielded, a Corvette has been in the Chevrolet lineup continuously for the last 60 years.
It was even Larry Tate’s ride when Chevrolet sponsored “Bewitched.”
Show me the bowtie on the vette? It’s a brand within the brand.
You won’t find a nissan badge on a gtr either. Doesn’t mean it isn’t a nissan.
Correction, there is a Nissan badge on the GTR.
http://www.netcarshow.com/nissan/2015-gt-r_nismo/1600×1200/wallpaper_03.htm
I hope dan isn’t suggesting that the Corvette nameplate, the oldest sports coupe nameplate in automotive history, is going to be confused with a car like the Daihatsu’s Copen.
Look at the two crossed flags in the Corvette emblem. You can find a bowtie in the right-hand flag.
http://marlin-car.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/corvette-emblem-abrxrkbq.jpg
Show me the bowtie. I like it. Sounds better than find new roads.
I knew you would point out that mini bow tie buried in the flags. Let’s face it, the vette doesn’t wear a bow tie. How ugly would cruz size bow ties be on the c-7? It would make me puke.
@wane-
Agree it’s better than find new roads,
I think the current cheap looking, gold and chrome bow tie is so ugly.
How about: show me NEW bow ties”?
What’s the deal here you post a photo and then you replace it with this.
Did you make someone mad?
Anyway I think things you may take from both of these photo’s is the lower side scoop is present in both and the grill has a theme that is similar but over stated on one and understated on the other. It is things like this you can watch for and see how they package it all together.
the Corvette was and still is a Chevy. It from the start carried the cross flags but it has always been a Chevy. Even in the later years where GM considered making the Vette it’s own brand it has been shot down.
Besides you are not going to buy a new Stingray from Cadillac or Buick unless they share a Chevy dealer in their building.
What’s with the photo swap? The black Suburban’s from GM pull up and take your dog?
It’s all over twitter. Image based on a summer internship of Michael McGee in 2012. The model is a 1/3 half mirror model by a professional clay modeller.
http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=332986
Purely personal opinion, the photo shows a car that is plainer than vanilla in styling. It eviscerates the Camaro as a well known muscle car. It is kind of like taking the jaguar out of Jaguar. This car if produced as pictured will be lost in the rental car parking lots. No character, no personality, and no purpose in its design.
Its in the red flag on the corvette symbol.
The Corvette has the flags because all of Chevy’s sports edition cars would have them, and the Corvette kept it all these years.
Find new roads? I prefer Dr. Emmett Brown’s line at the end of “Back to the Future”:
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need…ROADS!”
I own a ’92 Jeep Cherokee (recently retired in running condition with 324,000 miles on it, with the intention to bring it back to life in the future, as it needs some steering parts and driver’s seat parts). I fired it right up tonight, too.
I used to use that very phrase when I turned off of a road to go wheeling!
the most iconic thing of the 5th gen camaro were the massive mean looking front grill, the headlights n low n wide look. the sixth gen should def have the big grill in front. this small to almost no grill does not do justice to what camaro fans love at the first place.. i think gm authorities should keep this in mind. the interior needs a complete revolution like c7.
Wow! This was posted on my b-day. Nice present. Maybe Karma? 🙂
I like it all up to the grill which is too ‘soft’. The quarter panel looks nice and muscular. The grill headlight treatment is too narrow and out of proportion. If any of the car is exaggerated, it’s that piece so there’s hope it’ll get fixed. I doubt the quarter panel will last either. Too bad. Trim that back and it gets a bit ho-hum, been there and done that boring.
This new body style is really going to take the “muscle” out of the Camaro. The greatest part of the 5th generation is the mean muscular look of the car. You cannot ruin the car with a less aggressive look. The biggest flaw with this body is how rounded off all the edges are. Fix that. And bring back the true American Muscle that I know a Camaro is.
FYI, the image on the article now is not the image that was being discussed earlier – GMA had to take it down, there’s a note in italics but some are missing it apparently.
Yeah, I should have mentioned I’m talking about the Transformers Camaro. The internship study (which shares some design cues like the quarter panel) is too way out to even get excited over. Zero chance of anything like it hitting the streets.
Well, thanks – I think. I kind-of see the ’69 – 73 Camaro.
If the GM Camaro team accepts suggestions, mine is that “A coupe and a sports car is intended to be a driver’s car, not a family car. So, do your best to downsize by LOOSING the BACK SEAT ONLY.
“Why?” Because, (1) if a buyer is looking for a family car, there are plenty of sedans, wagons and cross-overs out there. And (2), PLEASE – Do not downsize the space in the Camaro’s front seats (neither by chopping the width nor legroom) in such a way that a good sized (6’2″, 250lbs) American cannot fit and be comfortable inside daily. There are already too many tiny cars for tiny people in the American market. What do U say?”