Chevy Camaro Could Be Replaced By Performance EV Sedan
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As GM Authority has covered previously, the future of the Chevy Camaro nameplate is uncertain, with the termination of development for the seventh-generation model and a moving target for the discontinuation for the sixth-generation model painting a somewhat murky picture. Now, however, one report indicates that the Chevy Camaro could be replaced with a new performance EV sedan.
Per a recent report from Automotive News, the current sixth-generation Chevy Camaro will be phased out in 2024, replaced by a new all-electric performance sedan. The report includes a breakdown of several other General Motors nameplates and their potential replacements, including highlights such as a new Ultium-powered crossover to replace the Chevy Bolt EV and Chevy Bolt EUV after 2023 and 2024, respectively, as well as the arrival of the Cadillac Lyriq, Cadillac Optiq, and Cadillac Symboliq as replacements for the Cadillac XT4, Cadillac XT5, and Cadillac XT6 following the 2025 calendar year.
The report also lists the Chevy Spark, Chevy Trax, Buick Encore, and Chevy Malibu as set for discontinuation, each of which does not have a clear successor in the works.
The model lineup changes will come as General Motors moves through a “transition period” towards electrification. The automaker has committed some $35 billion towards the development of new EV and autonomous vehicle products through 2025, with plans to launch at least 20 new EV models in North America in the next five years. General Motors plans to electrify the entirety of its light-vehicle offerings by 2035.
As GM Authority exclusively reported in June, the timeframe for discontinuation of the current sixth-generation Chevy Camaro remains fluid, with uncertainty as to when the current generation will be sunset, as well as the overall lifecycle. One possible factor is a lifecycle extension for the sixth-gen model to the 2026 model year, rather than the 2024 model year, as originally expected, but again, nothing is set in stone.
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as a camaro fanboy since day 1, as much as i shouldn’t accept this, the camaro’s future is too uncertain. with that being said if the camaro turns into a sedan so what? at least its still performance orientated.
if they do away with the Camaro then my next car will probably be a Porsche. Gas and turbo. GM is just ruining their business again but to be expected. I will just keep my 5 first gen and buy more to restore with real engines.
Porsche makes an electric sports sedan. You could be getting an American electric sports sedan but you choose to defy logic in search of antiquated thinking lol, tbh ICE cars aren’t getting any faster anytime soon anyways if there weren’t any bans taking place lol
While the idea of a performance sedan has its appeal, the fact that it would not be ICE, drives me nuts. I’m sure one day I will have no choice and I’ll have to accept an electric vehicle, but I’m just not there yet.
There is two things the American automakers do well – trucks and pony cars. Granted they don’t sell a lot of Camaros but it’s a niche vehicle that serves them well. Ford’s clearly not abandoning the Mustang, Dodge not sure what’s going on with Charger.
Also didn’t they try this with the reborn GTO and Impala SS that didn’t fair that well?
Stalantis is pouring some big bucks into the Ontario Canada Challenger plant! and possibly into the Charger CDN plant also!
The Charger and Challenger are both built in the same plant in Brampton Ont.
The most important name in Chevrolet history should be the EV Sport Sedan, Impala SS
If called an Impala it should have a 409.
A 2-door Camaro and a 4-door Chevelle Ultium-powered in the $ 25-45k. If the ICE Camaro must die, so it be ev. Ford has its plans for the Mustang too.
If I were building a performance EV sedan based off a performance EV Camaro coupe (to be clear, I think making it an EV instead of ICE is totally premature), I’d call it the Impala, not the Chevelle.
Corvair should be considered too
I’ll call it the Battery Mobile
Why phased it out, just continue with modified, more powerful engines and milk it to the extreme like the French car company does it with Challenger and Charger.
Also Camaro name is too powerful to be thrown away and replaced with another name. So it must be Camaro EV if a performance coupe EV would happen at all.
Can’t justify keeping an assembly line for minimal monthly unit sales. And FCA owes billions in emissions/mpg fines
To justify it the Camaro does share an assembly line, but even with CT4 & CT5 sales the Grand River Assembly plant is well below what Chrysler builds in LX cars. But I can see Camaro being built as long as the Caddies’ are.
Why kill it off? Would much rather have both a real Camaro coupe and convertible and some sort of performance sedan. GM is so narrowly focused it’s a miracle they are doing as well as they are these days.
Lowercase gm lives off of six products, the Silverado, Sierra, Tahoe, Suburban, Yukon, and Escalade. Everything else might as well be discontinued included Mary’s beloved, and much incentivized, Bolt. The irony is these six profit-making products, with their 6.2 L V8, BOF, RWD configuration, are the antithesis of the direction the company is headed.
Just kill off the Camaro; don’t attach the nameplate to a “performance EV sedan”. Such a product will never be an actual Camaro.
Also, didn’t gm already indicate that Symboliq and Optiq and possibly Lyriq would not be used as names on future Cadillac products?
They did. Optiq is the XT4 EV replacement, and Symboliq is the XT6 EV replacement.
I agree with Joe Yoman. Why not offer both, a two-door coupe and sedan? It’s better than killing off the Camaro for good. Then, the EV performance sedan could rival the Dodge Charger.
Underrated comment.
With the recall of their Spark or what ever you call it this week, You have to park it outside, so when it catches fire it doesn’t burn down your place… Makes me want to run right out get an EV.. maybe they can rename it Burn toast,, Just make both
ICE and EV see what sells I’ll take ICE anytime
There are on average 500 ICE car fires per day in the US.
Also the recall is limited to specific model years from packs built at a Korean facility. The packs built in Michigan are not impacted.
And only about 1 percent of the cars on the road are Evs..
Progressives love using misleading statistics to back their vested interest causes… pathetic really.
What or who are you shaking your fist at from your wicker rocking chair, old man?
Mustang EV sales in June apparently were better than the ICE models.
Just saying.
I’ll put my Bolt up against whatever else in the category.
How many fires? Six or seven?
Wow!
And how many ICE fires?
Ya I thought so
And by the way, how do all those ICE engines get started?
Oh, an electric motor & battery!
Hm.
I wonder….nah it probably wouldn’t work….
If GM puts their heads together, they would offer both a EV sedan, and an ICE coupe.
Just imagine that combination.
Look the Camaro has great name equity but it is not an EV or a Sedan.
GM can and should do better than Ford as to use a good name on a wrong product like with what is going on with the Mustang.
There is a number of other names that they could use that at least had none relation to a sedan.
I would bank the Camaro name till later once EV is better accepted and coupes are more in fashion.
With EV platforms a Camaro coupe could be more easily done and priced cheaper. That is when they should look to this name but not now.
To make it an EV now will blow up worse than the Blazer name mistake. Nothing wrong with the Blazer but it should have been a Nomad or some other none 4×4 associated name.
A two door, and a four door. Didn’t GM do this with the Malibu and the Chevelle? Is there any reason these names couldn’t be used for the EV’s? I do believe both came in performance, SS, version at one time or another, just redo what you have done before GM, only as an EV. Lifting the hood on either and not seeing a 396 or 427 staring back at you would be a bummer for the old timers, but, life moves on!
You are hopelessly wrong. Get WOKE! Camaro ICE has poor sales. Camaro EV coupe and sedan(name it what you want) will lead Chevy into the future.
GM at it again, screwing up another name. AKA Blazer, this is the exact reason you are losing customers.
Could someone who is a subscriber to Automotive News please share what they predict about the future product plans of GM’s other brands, Buick, Cadillac, and GMC? The information is in today’s (7/26/21) issue of Automotive News. Thank you.
Buick
-Encore: production slated to end in 2023
-Encore GX: refresh in 2023, redesign in 2026
-Envision: refresh in 2024
-Enclave: refresh in 2021
-Buick EV: expected to launch in 2025
GMC
-Terrain: redesign in 2024
-Acadia: redesign in 2024
-GMC EV Crossover: expected launch in 2024
-GMC HUMMER EV SUV: goes on sale 2023
-GMC HUMMER EV Truck: goes on sale Fall 2021
-Yukon/XL: refresh in 2024
Cadillac
-CT4 & CT5: refresh in 2024; discontinued in 2026
-XT4, XT5 & XT6: refresh in 2023; discontinued in 2026
It won’t be an EV, cause who would buy it? Tesla mostly sells not because there good cars (have you seen the build quality???) But same reason everyone wanted a Itunes growing up, Iphone, airpods etc. It’s cool and flashy. Make the Camaro a better ev than the model S, make it more affordable and guess what? It still won’t sell. Keep it an ICE track vehicle as the current dated Camaro SS still beats the snot out of Teslas custom track car. It’s the favorite of many racers, great Nascar ambassador, and requires minium enhancements to keep it relevant, especially as it shares powertrains with the trucks. Keep it on for a while and pick up those lost sales from Ford and dodge as they go “woke and broke”.
Probably an ICE coupe and an EV 4door like Mustang or the other way around like Charger.
They should do it like the new 4 series. An ICE performance coupe like the M4 and an electric 4 door performance Sportback like the i4 M50i … I always thought the camaro would be sick with a lift gate that lifts the back window or as a 4 door Sportback
Does this make any since?? They have already killed off their best sedans except Cadillac. Now they say they what a Camero sedan? Wont fly.!!
I can see the switch to EV. GM has become very Woke as of late. So they have to have everything EV according to their woke theology.
Blessed are those who are woke!!
Nobody wants EVs period! Build vehicles according to what people actually want, not what our wasteful and useless Government forces companies to make! I don’t how fast a car goes, EVs are borning and soulless! My SS Camaro is very quick, but the exhaust sounds, the vibrations and the whole experience from a HO V8 gas engine can never be replicated in an EV!
I’m so glad I bought my 2021 LT1 Camaro in June. The Camaro EV will be popular and sell once available because it will be the next trendy throwback vehicle ie. Hummer, Mustang. The US will need lots more EV charging stations to make the change over by 2025.
We have to rake anything the Automotive News writes about with a grain of salt. They have become a real rag of a publication.
Chevy has too many cars that shouldn’t be around anymore, but are considering tossing out the Camaro. Give me a break. Mustangs and F150 are ugly and sell more. WTH is going on..
And people complain current Camaro is too expensive, wait till it is an EV!
Why switch the name and go with Camaro as a EV sedan? Why not a performance EV coupe, and a performance EV sedan? The Malibu could be the performance sedan. It has heritage with the Chevelle and at some point in its life it was RWD.
If wasn’t for a crap interior, a lazy base engine, featureless trims and crap advertisement. The Malibu would have done better than what it did. The Camaro would have done better. If Chevy would have given it more cargo space, more rear seat space, better outward visibility, and advertised it more.