The sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro could live on until the 2026 model year, according to a recent report out of Australia.
The last we heard, General Motors was planning to pull the plug on the sixth-generation Chevy Camaro in 2023 following the end of production of the 2024 model year vehicle. However a new report from Whichcar.com.au indicates GM will extend the production end date to the 2026 model year.
While this is the first we’ve heard of a supposed production extension for the sixth-generation Chevy Camaro, it appears to make sense. GM has already committed to the Australian Supercars series’ new Gen3 ruleset and will race a sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 in the championship from the 2022 season onward. It wouldn’t be very cost effective or practical to make a multi-year commitment to a racing series with a vehicle that will go out of production not even 24 months later, so there just may be some substance to these rumors.
Additionally, the Whichcar report indicates GM is looking at re-introducing the sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro to the Australian market by as early as next year. Again, it wouldn’t make much sense for GM to go through the trouble of setting up a program to ship Camaros to Australia and convert them to right-hand-drive locally only to pull the plug less than two years later. If the Camaro is confirmed for the General Motors Special Vehicles lineup, it would certainly add some credence to the claims that it will live on past its current planned 2023 end date.
The sixth-gen Chevrolet Camaro was briefly offered in Australia via Holden Special Vehicles, which shipped both SS and ZL1 trim level models to Australia before converting them to RHD for local consumption. The more competitively priced Ford Mustang made the converted HSV Camaro a hard sell, however, and the company was forced to pull the plug on the program. GMSV will apparently get a better deal on the vehicles from GM in Detroit than HSV did, which may enable it to offer the Camaro for a lower price.
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I Hope that chevy will introduce a camaro ev.
They have COPO-e but Chevy needs to up the HP too beat the Shelby-e each running in the 9 sec 1/4 mile.
If evolution is a must…1000-1200 HP Camaro would peak interest of many.
WHY? The Camaro sales in less numbers than the Impala and Malibu which have been discontinued because cars don’t sale anymore. So why hang on to a model that only 30k a year are sold. Chevrolet could easily put the Impala on this platform and build 4 models, A base in Malibu price range, A middle in Impala price range , A Impala SS and A top model Impala ZL1
That makes too much sense. You must be crazy. If only the bean counters were logical.
Could this be the Alpha 2 platform’s run time-line as CT4/5 is on this platform. Also as witnessed by Mustang/Challenger having an older platform don’t mean it won’t sell.
I thought they ride on a newer platform?
This seems like an opportunity to bring in a Buick Wagon and Sedan on the platform. Done right they certainly could compete. World give the Buick/GMC arm a car to sell. Everyone I know who has a Regal loves it. Imagine it RWD/AWD and offered in a stick at the right price point…. And actually advertised.
Dodge has shown us that the Charger/Challenger can still remain competitive despite them riding on old platforms. GM just needs to keep the Camaro fresh and advertise it more. An updated interior would also be a nice bonus.
@ Rob
IKR & the Camaros chassis is light years better than the challengers’.
Absolutely. It a killer platform. And now that the corvette has gone mid engine, they should give the camaro some of the features of prior corvettes, Particularly by making it a lift back. Make that trunk actual usable space, increase the frame ridgidity in the rear. Add front lift height and don’t be afraid to add more power to it, add active shocks on the SS, and the most important part would be to market even the base 2.0 turbo models as economic sporty round town run abouts. With similar pricing as the Camry and still making 30mpg, why buy a Camry? Try that for marketing
Doing away with some of the bizarre styling would help
I agree the ZL1 and Base Camaro front grill is butt ugly. The SS grill looks good though.
Yes, definitely keep this awesome looking vehicle going. It WILL SELL better against the Ford competition if more aggressively priced. Here in Oz, myself and THOUSANDS of other Chevy fans, want to see the Camaro fight on both On The Track & On The Road against the ford (cant bring myself to say the ford crap name) product. Advertise the Camaro more and POSITIVELY Go Out And Grab Those Sales, this Beautiful Car Deserves. CHEVROLET CAMARO FOREVER !!!!!!!
I can’t remember the last ad campaign for a Camaro. Maybe back when the 82s first came out. They said the closest competitor was its shadow, or something like that.
Now, they’re too expensive, Mustang track pack is better, and the Hell Cat and Red Eye have so much allure that the Camaro lacks, in spite of the Camaro being the better car.
Not to mention they have a 6.4 supercharged powerplant doling out 707 HP in the 4 door sedan and now 2 SUVs. Average Joe an Joan see a 4 door sedan grocery getter and a family hauler SUV, not a platform or chassis, they see themselves in the zoom zoom zoom…. who cares about a platform when I get 707 HP, badass 22″ wheels and crazy LEDs all around. That’s why the Charger has been #1 in its class for over a year. Not to mention the latest base 5.7 with 395 HP with 20″ wheels. Impala was #2 but no v8. The SS and G8 was nice but it didn’t sell as expected due less HP ratings.
As for the Challenger that’s actually in the Camaro space, up the powerplant to a 6.4 to match 492 HP in a lighter car with crazy LEDs a Supercharged 6.4 too…
Hopefully they make a gen 7 and learn from the gen 6 mistakes.
NO MORE CHOP TOP! As well as firing whoever approved the gen 6 design.
If true, this likely means lower and lower sales numbers. GM is highly unlikely to invest more money in the Camaro outside of the occasional re-worked facia. Also, if there is a seventh generation car, it will not have a gas burning engine.
IMHO the 6th gen is a beast. The interior is gorgeous and a much needed upgrade from the 5th gen. And chevy knows it because, just look at the blazer. It’s a Camaro made over and they can’t keep up with the sales. The front midcycle refresh screwed up the front fascia-fix that and invest some money into advertisement and they’ll have much improved sales.
Well if the blazer is popular, it just goes to prove that improving the interior, and making the backseat usable will improve sales. just imagine, good looks, High Performance, and some basic utility. Sounds like a hit to me.
maybe gm is trying to get some of that old car dodge challenger magic rub off on the camaro.
This audience doesn’t deserve this magnificent car. They’re just parrot dummest clichés; “Yeah yeah low visibility we need high roof, corolla style, we need to see nose of the car, otherwise we can’t drive it because we afraid to hit something yeah we’re that bad a driver and have no business to buy a sports car.”
They’re drooling over import sport cars with zero visibility meanwhile poopooing Camaro. If this car had come from Europe, i assure you it will be like a gold for the same people. You hate 650 hp & 650 lb-ft track machine that comes cheap as $65K and beats lambos and ferraris in Nurburgring time, and why because of its low roof!! If high roof that much momentous for you, you’re a plain SUV customer not a Camaro. All this low visibility beaching is just a non-sense make up excuse from non-Camaro guys.
Exactly!!
I am not a non-Camaro guy, but here’s the deal…..The 1967 & 68 Camaro is one of the best looking Pony cars ever produced and Ford and Dodge and yes, even GM, have never surpassed it. Visibility out the windows was good, the back seat was useful and the trunk was decent. Just look at the prices and demand for 67 & 68 Camaros. Ford and Dodge have succeeded quite well in the retro look, judging by sales, whereas Chevy has missed the mark. If the Camaro is to continue GM needs to do what they did with the C8, say goodbye to any pretense at retro styling and come up with a new design for the 21st century. A 600+ hp EV Camaro with a real back seat and trunk and a convertible option would be strong competitor to any other EVs and ICE Mustangs and Challengers.
I’m 6’3″ and still feel like I’m a child. The door glass barely comes to my shoulder. Yes, I can drive it, but why must the belt line be so high?
I don’t care about the visibility issues, you can get used to that. I can’t get past the lack or rear seat leg room, back seat is unusable, and that’s just ridiculous. They might as well ditch the back seat and make it a hatchback. At least it would have some cargo space.
Why? What works for Mustang and Challenger is not the case for Camaro. It needs to be totally redone front to back and inside, other wish they will just sit on lots and take up space which is a waste of money that be spent elsewhere
BRING BACK THE CHEVELLE and watch people flock to the showrooms!
In Wyoming…….. and which Chevelle you want?, the 307 wagon?, i6 sedan?, 2bbl 350 convertible?.They never stopped making the Chevelle, it’s today’s Malibu (Chevy’s midsized car).
The closest we had for Chevelle SS today was the SS and it was to fill Holden’s contract obligations, that’s the only way it returns.
The Chevelle days was numbered as a muscle car before the Energy Crisis when Camaro and M/C arrived, the only saving grace was you couldn’t get a 454 in a factory Camaro then and the M/Cs no convertible also sticker price. The GTO was also history once Firebird got attention in the 70s also.
Yeh,..and like the last GTO ..the SS’s were just butt ugly like a foreign car…thats why they were failures. And to just stick the SS on a no name car was about the dumbest thing GM could have done. They Stupid!
The Last GTO did look plain, the stillborn ’10 GTO was supposed to remedy that. The SS shoulda had more expressive style and GM did say the SS meet expectations and competed well against 392 Charger but that didn’t prevent Holden from shutting down in which why Holden wasn’t built in Oshawa in order to cut cost shared with other GM vehicles like the Acadia?.
Back to my point for a Chevelle SS to return (and it will have to be sedan only) the fwd Malibu IMO will need to phase out and replaced with a mass market rwd sedan on VSS-R.
The probable motivation here is we know Charger/300 will continue, the CT5/4 may get some CUVs on VSS-R to cut cost, the wildcard is Ford may do a Mustang sedan for a Fusion replacement so that may prompt GM to “return fire”. Overall Chevy will do a performance sedan only when it’s cheap enough.
When I first saw the GTO it looked like a Sunfire on steroids. Unfortunately lutz’s final years were not his most successful in terms of product.
@Tom:
……to ignore it as they sign for a new Blazer.
Why do you think pretending it’s 1966 would help anything?
Because 66 was a great year for American cars.
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GM should go buy a honda accord, and figure out how to stuff a V8, and the rest of the drivetrain in it. I’m all for an Accord 1LE.
Must be a Millennial or Gen X’r. Sad
Sorry if you think it’s sad, I’m all for function over form, especially if it’s costing me $50k GM needs to do their homework. At least in the 5th gen the back seat was usable for short trips, 6th gen is useless. If you want a two seater, get a corvette.
I sold my 17 accord sport to get my camaro. Would never even think about looking back.
I guess everyone is missing my point. The Accord is Similar in size and style to the Camaro, If Honda can give a car that size four usable seats, I don’t see why GM can’t. Add in the Camaro’s superior performance, and it should be a sales success. The Zl1 is a performance bargain at 60k, but not everyone has 60k to drop on a 2 seat performance car. They need it to be able to do other things too.
When I was 18 in 1970 my parents bought me a used 1966 chevelle. The previous owner had put a 427 L88 on backed with a Tubo 400 trans and 456 tail gears…so much fun to blow people off the road street racing from about a 15 mph roll.
With no stall converter coming off the line at a dead idle,the car ran 12.89 1/4 mile. My all time favorite car is the 1969 Chevelle with Hi Po 396 rectangular heads Muncie 4 speed. We took the 427 out of the 66 chevelle put it into the 69 chevelle put 538 tail gears in the rear up the cam to a 648 320 duration solid lifter and a Tunnel Ram with two 780 Holley carbs….side step the clutch at 7 thousand r.p.m
Pulled a 12 inch wheel stand and ran 11.46 in the 1/4 mile…..all on pump gas 103 octane
Nice car…The Tubo 400 trans was rare.😝
The Camaro is not a bad car, it just needs some improvements ie…. Dodge and Ford, SEs more horsepower, new dash and inventory I’ve said before no good inventory here, car I would by in AL. Maybe dealers can work together better, seems they always sell🤷
I have a camaro and a challenger.. The camaro is light-years ahead of dodge on the interior and on the gadgets.
What motor in the Challenger? I guess the Camaro is new with the LT1?
Keep making improvements HP SEs etc.. color.
This car is unbelievable the ride is awesome and the sound coming from the engine feel like a racing car on the track when I bought this 2021 Camaro V6 in November and thinking about buying another one great car .
Bring the Camaro back as a new 1970 1/2 retro model.
Holden did buildup production on the Commodore VF when it was wound down. It could be HSV just make a few hundred units extra per “year” and sell as 2025 MY and 2026 MY too.
This is a car that people won’t know what they’ll miss until it’s gone. It’s platform is easily better than S550, and light years better than the Charger/Challenger platforms. It’s HP is not lacking in SS form compared to GT or Scat Pack as it a noticeably lighter car than its competition. Do I think a LT2 would be nice in a SS? Yes. How about an LT5 in a ZL1? Of course, but why would Chevy invest in that if their sales are so bad? Also GM needs to let people defeat the computers in them easier. You can’t tune the A10 in a 20-21 model, (but you can in a 19) and they have a reputation for 60 footing like crap because it’s hard to full defeat the cars T/C even when you supposedly turn it off. They are extremely composed cars that handle very well and safely.
The problem is cost.
That and the A-pillar should be reinforced like C8 and Mustang in convertible trim. GM media relations sure doesn’t seem to like to talk about that one.
Fortunately for owners (and unfortunate for buyers), the 2SS cars are holding their value. I was interested in a ’16 – ’18 2SS 6MT (with mag ride, dual mode exhaust and sunroof). But it seems all of them are in the low 30k range and sorry, but there other cars I would buy for that money (and did, modded C6Z).
Had it been in the mid 20’s I would own one right now.
Bring back the Nova. Basically a Camaro chassis with that grocery getter body look.
Who ever said that you shouldn’t beat a dead horse?
Or Drive a train right off the tracks?
Is GM/Chevy trying to irreparably ruin the legacy of the first gen Camaro?
GM Executive to a colleague: “Hey, let’s see if we can make every living human become disgusted with the ’69 Camaro?…” Response: “OK………”
I’m sure the car will look a lot better with a full 3” lower belt line, people will forget the “bad visibility” feeling and the likes of seating in a tank comments from Mustangnatics and first buyers impression. Don’t get me wrong, this is coming from a Camaro lover…
Nothing wrong with the current Camaro, its a great car. I know…my SS 6 speed has been my daily driver for over 3 year and 40k miles. What is very wrong is Chevy refuses to promote and advertise the car. They Stupid!
Well my bank account will be happy. I was going to load up a 2023 2SS with the 1LE and the computer since that MY was going to be the end of the ICE camaro. Sounds like I will have 3 yrs to save up. That might get me in the ZL1. BTW what will the NASCAR teams call their cars if the camaro is discontinued?
Current sales say it all. Camaro is a dead car walking. GM is not going to spend the $$$$ necessary to redo the Camaro. Then there is the problem of it being in last place in its segment, which is shrinking. Years of neglect by GM has killed Camaro. 2023 or 2026, the end is coming.
Hope production ramps back up in 2021, don’t see any on local dealer & closest other 2 dealers only seem to have a couple each occasionally.
Why would you invest in something that loses money. The smartest decision would be for GM to kill it immediately from a business POV but they decided to let it die naturally. This is a flawed design which has been a complete failure from the beginning. Bob Lutz knew that the Mustang was going to steamroll it from the start. This car has been a complete waste of corporate resources.
Why would you invest in something that loses money. The smartest decision would be for GM to kill it immediately from a business POV but they decided to let it die naturally. This is a flawed design which has been a complete failure from the beginning. Bob Lutz knew that the Mustang was going to steamroll it from the start. This car has been a complete waste of corporate resources.
To all of you who don’t like it then just don’t buy it. I have 2019 2ss and love it . Lots of fun. The only thing they should have done was put the 5.3 in the rs and drop the price just a little lower. Would has sold more. Also drop the stupid fuel management system. If you buy a muscle car you don’t care about fuel mileage.
Cost is not the issue, or at least it shouldn’t be unless you’re talking low-information buyers. Camaros value is as good or better than Challenger or Mustangs. What do I mean by this? I was at a Dodge dealership the other day and they had a Widebody Challenger Scat Pack on display for about $53K. I was at Carmax a few months back and there was a 19 widebody Challenger Scat Pack with over 25K miles being sold for $43K. WTF? You can get a 2SS 1LE for well under $53K. I bought my 19 1SS 1LE brand new for $39,736. A SS 1LE will slap 7 shades of sh*t out of a widebody Scat Pack at anything other than a straight line race which in that case it could go either way. (Generally the torquey 392 will pull into an early lead, then the broad/liner powerband of the LT1 will start to walk past it as the race progresses) Don’t believe me? C&D’s Lightning laps at VIR the SS 1LE was exactly 5 seconds faster than a widebody Challenger Hellcat. Even a V6 1LE lapped within .5 seconds of the Charger Hellcat they tested. Automotive Magazine ran in a 2SS 1LE at NCM 7 seconds faster than the did in a widebody Challenger Scat Pack, and 4 seconds faster than they did in a widebody Challenger Redeye. People claim, well Challengers Pirelli’s aren’t as good on a track as SS 1LE/ZL1 GY Supercar 3’s (even though the widebody cars run a square 305 setup where a SS 1LE/ZL1 run a 285/305 F/R setup) and they are correct. I don’t care if you put a square 305 setup using Sport Cup 2’s (which SC2’s drop noticeably times compared to the SC3’s on the SS 1LE/ZL1 as well) or Hoosier slicks on those cars it still would be enough. Maybe it would allow the Redeye to plant it’s power well enough to catch up, but that’s iffy, and we’re not even comparing it to a ZL1 which would lap a little quicker than the SS 1LE will. (Think of a SS 1LE kind of as a ZL1 with a SS engine/trans) If you say that not everyone is looking for a trackcar and the Challenger is more practical then I agree. It has a bigger trunk, a little more room, and as far as back seats it does have more room there as well but who cares as they still suck for adults of early teens even.?.? If given the option to ride in the rear of a Foxbody, SN95, GEN4 Fbody, or new Challenger, the Challenger would be my last pick as the back seats in every one of the “muscle/pony/whatever you wish to call them” cars that post-dates them (S197/S550 Mustangs, Zeta/Alpha Camaros, GEN3 Challenger) is less inviting than those cars, so the Challengers larger rear seat than S550 and GEN6 Camaro is irrelevant IMHO. If you can stomach a 90’s compact car without issue then the interior of a GEN6 Camaro feeling claustrophobic should be a non-issue. As far as ride quality the new Camaro (minus ZL1 1LE) rides very nice especially your MRC cars.
As far as Mustang it has a very good engine. It comes prebuild to be able to handle a big HP bump, and it’s a pretty easy and rewarding car to mod power out of. It’s biggest issue compared to Camaro is the same that it’s traditionally been and that being that it chassis/suspension setup is noticeably more budgeted and inferior to Camaros from a performance standpoint. Also Ford always seems to always use inferior manual transmissions. As much as things changes many things don’t. Mustang is still easier to live with as it’s easier to get in and out of, more practical trunk, better awareness as to what’s going on around you, etc. (I still own a Foxbody and an 03 Cobra and have owned GEN4 Fcars that I spent years DD’ing) The Camaro having less outer visibility, being harder to get in and out of, etc is nothing new and goes back at least 2-3 Generations. From a value standpoint Mustang is no better than Camaro. “But a Mustang GT starts at $3K less than a new SS.” A base 1SS also gives you a much better suspension, much larger and better wheels and tires, trans/rearend coolers, better brakes, a pretty good infotainment system (even if the non-BOSE sound system is lacking) a Tremec TR6060, torsion diff, etc. A 1SS competes with a non-premium GT PP1 while still having much better infotainment system that the little reverse camera screen a base Mustang has. A 2SS is competition for an optioned out GT PP1 car. Your low option GT’s competition is a LT1. Think of a LT1 like you would a Foxbody LX. You can get them stipped down or option them up. By that 3,700 lb S550 GT weight everyone pushes is for your no option, basic, small wheel/tire M6 cars, as your premium GT PP1 M6 cars are more in the 3,820+ lb range and your 18+ cars setup like that I’ve seen listed in the 3,860 lb range. For comparison a base LT1 M6 car is in the 3,580 lb range and a 2SS is in the 3,700 lb range. These are all coupe weights BTW, and your 1LE’s weigh an extra 40-50 lbs as they use much bigger wheels/tires, swaybars, ZL1 9.9″ rearend with eLSD, etc. Also the Camaros Recaros are heavy because they all come plumbed for heated and vented seats even though the Recaros in the 1SS don’t take advantage of those features that are built into them.
This isn’t to say that the Camaros competitors are poor values, or that people shouldn’t buy them, but most the what people claim are “the problem with this gen Camaro” are not justified, and are likely written by Camaro haters or Chevy fans who miss their IROC’s and hate the new cars looks or whatever. People who have big issues with the new Camaro are likely to have little to no experience with them, or they’re just wanting to find issue with them as they’re biast against them. For a “Sport car” (which a GEN6 is) there is no big problem with them. Yes like many sports cars its rear visibility is lacking, having a bunch of AFM hardware in the engine sucks, it’s trunk is only decent at best and not huge like on my wifes Taurus, the rear seats are not practical for someone that’s not had both legs amputated. These are compromises easily justified in cars with the performance that the GEN6 delivers. The car one the 2016 MT COTY award because for $37K you had a car that would match an M4 on a road course. For $45K MSRP (I paid less than $40 for mine brand new) you have a car that’s faster around most tracks than C6 Z06’s, non-NISMO GTR’s, base GT350’s, (Randy Pobst matched his GT350R time to the tenth around Willow Spring in a SS 1LE. A GT350R makes 71 more HP, less weight since it has a minimal interior and CF wheels, larger Sport Cup 2 tires, and like $25K extra MSRP) and it’s nipping on a C7 GS heels which also wear large SC2’s. Point I’m getting at is how is its value off? Is it expensive for a Camaro in the traditional sense if we don’t take inflation into account? Sure, but for Camaro to cost less it would have to be a less car, built on a lesser platform. It’s not underpowered. The GEN5 LT1 makes 455HP and 455 lb-ft in the Camaro. That’s 5 less HP and 35 more lb-ft than a GEN3 Coyote in a Mustang GT, with a curve that’s about as broad as the one found on a Terminator. BTW comparing competing models the Camaro weighs 120+ lbs less. It make 30 less HP than the 392 Hemi, and I think 20 lb-ft less, but were talking about a car that weighs 500+ lbs more. And for all the GEN5 Camaro guys who like to hate on the GEN6 cars you don’t want to start. There’s not much (including outward visibility) that a GEN5 has over a GEN6. Maybe some better ergonomics in the trunk or rear seat or something like that, but not much else unless you just like the looks of the GEN5 better.
There is no big issue with the GEN6 Camaro. You might dislike it’s styling, or be a fanboy of something, but the GEN6 is a great performer and a very composed platform. Alphas chassis design is based on the old E46 BMW platform that everyone raves about. All this negativity about “the problems with the GEN6 Camaro” is just haters talking out their butts. Sure they don’t sell the best, but the reality is they are the best overall performers in their class. If Chevy would of continued to develop their performance after 2017 and given SS a LT2 and ZL1 a LT5 to could Ford and Fiat counters Camaros powerplants then this wouldn’t even be a question right now. If you want to talk about a problem, that’s a problem. GM develops excellent products then allows them to remain stagnant for years while their rivals work to catch up and/or surpass their performance. It’s hard to compete for bragging rights when ZL1 is making about 110 and 150 less HP than its competitors. A ZL1 1LE with a LT5 would be insanely good. IMO the new Mach 1 is just Fords next attempt to better the SS 1LE. The GT PP2 couldn’t better it, but Ford can’t build a better car for the same price so they dress it up a little bit and call it Mach 1 to justify the price it commands.
Epistles don’t sell sports cars. Contemporary styling, exterior and interior, performance, quality, value, marketing, all mesh in successful vehicles. These owners tend to be loyal, so when a company let’s a brand go stale, like GM has with Camaro, it is very difficult to reclaim market share. The death spiral for Camaro has begun.
Love my 6th gen. Wish I lived in a warmer climate so I can drive it more.would like to see the alpha in more cars
I AGREE 100% WITH JROC
You sound like a Camaro hater looking to troll on a GM based site. GM hasn’t announced that they are discontinuing Camaro. If anything extending the production to 2026 is extremely promising for the model. GEN6 Camaro can easily do that while remaining relevant seeing as it’s built on one of the best unibody structures that any car is built on. I mean your Challenger platform gets it roots from a clusterF of early 90’s S-Class and E-Class chassis/suspension piece, and even back when those cars were introduced in the 90’s they weren’t considered to be some great or class leading platforms. S550 rides on a revamped DEW98. Cars that road on that platform were your Lincoln LS, early 2,000 Thunderbird, a model or two from Jaguar. From my understanding the nect Mustang (S650 I think it’s being called) is to share it platform with some crossovers being developed by the FoMoCo. That sounds like a great idea, kind of like using the old Foxbody/SN95’s 4link with the offset uppers sounded like a great idea back when it was being developed in the 70’s to help budget the platform by not having to use a PHB.
I will say that if GM plans to extend the GEN6 to 2026 then they need to upgrade their powerplants to keep up with the competition. The SS needs a LT2 by 2022 or 2023 at the latest.
As is if they do discontinue the camaro then that sucks, but okay. I’ve got mine, and if something better comes along that I feel like spending on to upgrade then I will. I’m a Camaro fan, but I’m not a slave to them. I own (currently) 4 Fords including an 88 GT, 03 Cobra, and an 03 Lightning so I buy other brands and models as well. If I feel that Ford step their game up on the S650 Mustangs then I might be trading a Camaro in on one.
The fact still remains that a GEN6 Camaro is an excellent car for what it is. That being a everyday, working-class persons performance car above anything else. Again the Alpha platform is well ahead of S550 or the Challengers (I believe they call it the LA platform) platforms from a performance cars structural standpoint. There is no really big issues woth the GEN6 Camaro, it’s just the poorest selling car in a segment of poor selling cars.
I think this is Aussie news, more pertaining to the gm holden. Not the Camaro.
Camaro is cheaper in USA. Perhaps not in Australia.
YES!! Keep the 6th gen Camaro around until 2026. A 10 year cycle from 2016-2026, and hopefully there will be the 7th gen Camaro ready for the following year. I LOVE the 6th gen Camaros, I think theyre all made really well, and can serve anyone looking for an affordable rear wheel car. The 6th gen Camaro was the BEST CAMARO EVER MADE, great acceleration from all the engine trims (2.0T 5.4s, 3.6L 5.1s, 6.4L 3.9s, 0-60), and one of the best handling sports cars on the market. I dont want to see the Camaros disappear like the 4th gens did until the 2010 5th gens. Keep the Camaros rolling out like the Mustangs, back to back. People look at the Mustang’s straight line numbers and buy that over the Camaro, but people really dont understand how well the 6th gen Camaros handle until they daily drive one.
KEEP THE 6TH GEN CAMAROS ON THE MARKET UNTIL THE 7TH GEN CAMAROS ARE READY FOR PURCHASE.
I really would like to see them extend the lifeline by a couple years. I am hoping that there is a Gen 7 and that it is ICE, but I probably haven’t been living good enough for that to happen. I have owned multiple Camaros over the year (5 of them). I currently have a Gen 5 ZL1. I have test drove the Gen 6, and like many things about it. The one thing I don’t like is the high belt line. I hate that I can’t put my arm on the top of the door with the widow down, sounds silly but that is the truth. The visibility isn’t a big issue, that is much the same as I have. I mostly Autocross with mine, and the Gen 6 is a killer, just a better car than my Gen 5 for such things. Sucks I don’t fit in a Gen 6 with sunroof with a helmet but without a sunroof is fine. I will add a Gen 6, and extending the life of the Camaro, gives me more time for that. Love the Camaro and always will.
I would have loved one…if they hadn’t screwed up the looks so bad!
camaro needs 2 inches more head room and 510 hp 7000 rpm LT2 ..can we get some rpm …..not a truck engine !!!!
But the 6.2 is basically a truck engine
the LS3 in my chevy SS would go past the redline on full throttle upshifts. 7000 rpms doesnt feel like a truck engine
The blue one pictured is very nice. Not all look that good…
Do a restyle refresh of the Camaro as a 2 door and 4 door offer all wheel drive and get ready to compete against the EV Mustang
The Mustang and Challenger are better quality anyway.