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Chevrolet Camaro Wishes Ford Mustang A Happy Birthday In Hilarious Manner

Without the Ford Mustang, there would be no Chevrolet Camaro. However, over five decades, both cars developed their own cult following and loyal fan base. And with the Ford Mustang is celebrating its 54th birthday this year, Chevrolet and the Camaro took time to wish the Mustang a happy birthday, albeit in a cheeky manner.

In a video posted to the Chevrolet Arabia Facebook page, the Camaro doubled down on its long-time rivalry. As a man stands idly by with a Mustang-shaped birthday cake in hand, a Camaro blasts by with enough speed to blow out the “54” candles in a bit of a back-handed complimented.

The video reads, “Happy Birthday, Little Pony.” Meanwhile, the caption also takes a dig at the Mustang’s birthday reading, “We don’t just bring the thunder. We steal it, too.”

It goes to show that age is just a number, and the Camaro-Mustang rivalry will continue on for years to come. Have a look at the video right down below.

Former GM Authority staff writer.

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  1. Don’t get too complacent GM. The Mustang is also currently outselling the Camaro and with the gaudy 2019 refresh I highly doubt sales will improve

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    1. Get over it. This is an advertising video and quite a good one at that. I think it’s great that rivals can poke fun at each other. This is a hot segment and sales have gone back and forth and they will continue to do so. No need to be so uptight about it.

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    2. Who cares about sales??? The true measure of a sports car is performance and the current Mustang still hasn’t caught up when it comes to handling. Ford has a lot more work to do with suspension tuning and weight reduction. Not to mention the new 460HP Coyote 5.0 for 2018 is still slower when mounted to a manual and just barely eeks out better acceleration with the optional 10-speed auto.

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  2. You might be wrong, people like things that look different especially in a leisure car. The more I see it the more its growing on me.

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    1. Joe, after seeing a Youtube vid of the SS posted on Camaro6, I really like the new SS treatments of the front fascia and the rear,especially the tail lights. And that new grayish color works well with the new SS piano black waterfall.

      I still am a not quite sure about the other trims fascia, but I’m quite pleased regarding the rear and tail lights on all trims.

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  3. If they want to sell more Camaros, change the inside 😛 I like the new design, it is something different than the last few years. Unfortunately, the inside is a mess. The interior is pretty much the sole reason I don’t have one in the garage.

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    1. Well that and I can’t afford one anyway. Lol!

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  4. Being a fan of both Ponies, I can appreciate the friendly good natured poke in the ribs by Chevy and love the vehicles this competition brings us.

    I have never owned a personal Camaro, but did buy several early 90’s 1LE’s for track duty. I did own a new SVO back in the day and later A Trans Am. So got no dog in the Pony wars, just reap the benefits.

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  5. bring back the pontiac firebird trans am

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    1. And Burt Reynolds. Lol

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  6. Cute, but …

    The entire annual ad budget for Chev Arabia, in 15 seconds.

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  7. Camaro’s are strong performers, but credit to Ford for taking the Mustang global. More than 40,000 were sold in export markets in ’17, but all of them are assembled in Michigan. Not China, not Mexico, Flat Rock Michigan. Nice job Ford.

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  8. How much did people pay for them? I know there LHD and RHD and these export. I thought Export a vehicle is post to be very pricey.

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    1. WTF are you saying? Did you learn English with Hooked on Phonics?

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  9. Exporting a car from one place to another, cost a lot of money to do so, that’s why I ask that question Do you understand English?

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    1. Hey Genius,
      70% of the cars sold in the US are from Import brands. They don’t seem to have a problem.

      Here’s a question for you: Why are import brands so successful in the US while US brands struggle in most foreign markets? (such as Japan, Korea and most of Europe)

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  10. us brand struggle in most foreign markets because unfair taxes on us goods

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  11. GM should never even acknowledge the competition! Just build you product to the best it can be!

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    1. Without ‘competition’ you don’t know what to build to. What you want to achieve is being the benchmark, but even the benchmark can lose its way without competition biting at its heels. For example, the 3-4-and 5-series BMW seemed to have have lost the their performance edge the last couple of years, but with the competition from Cadillac and Camaro, they have upped their game, especially with the rarely challenged ‘M’ models.

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      1. Wrong! You dont need competition to make yourself better if you are a self starter. If you insist on getting better everyday it doesn’t matter what the competition does.

        The question is will you drive yourself to get better? Most people are lazy and they need someone to push them to be great, other people work harder no matter who’s watching!

        So if you are the type of person that needs competition to get better then guess what camp you are in? Yep the lazy one!

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        1. Without competition, American cars would rust out and would barely last the time of the 12 month warranty. And the average family car, today, would cost well over 100K. Anybody remember the 70’s. Still remember my dad’s 1972 Mercury being completely rusted out after only 2 years.

          Competition is what has made all cars as good as they are today.

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  12. Bottom line for Pony lovers…with out the Iacocca’s Mustang, we wouldn’t have a Camaro or a Challenger. Though, the Barracuda proceeded the Mustang, it was the uniquely distinct Mustang model that gave us the Pony class of cars. While both the original Mustang and the Barracuda were built on shared platforms of other models, the Mustang wasn’t a stylized version of a Falcon as the Barracuda was of the Valiant.

    The Mustang for 54 years, now, has kept the Pony car class alive. All of us Pony car fans owe it a lot. The Barracuda and Firebird are gone, and in essence so is the Challenger, only the Mustang has remained in production since its inception.

    I was at Titus-Will Ford(Tacoma) the first morning the Mustang was first shown to the public, looking through the windows at a white hardtop sitting by itself on the floor. After about a half hour they opened the doors and I was still the only person there to see the Mustang, a day and a morning still fresh in my mind.

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