With the recent demise of the Chevy Camaro and Dodge Challenger muscle cars, the Ford Mustang is finally free to prance by its lonesome with little direct competition from domestic rivals. As one may expect, the Blue Oval isn’t opposed to rubbing it in, as evidenced in a recent video regarding its race-only Mustang GT3.
Ford Performance recently released a new video online promoting the Mustang GT3 racecar, which is gearing up to compete in the world-renowned 24 Hours of Le Mans competition. Roughly halfway through the video, Ford takes a not-so-subtle jab at the Camaro and Challenger, with the narrator stating, “As others fell by the wayside, [the Ford Mustang] forged on.”
Of course, this is an obvious reference to the recent discontinuation of the Chevy Camaro and Dodge Challenger, which leaves the Mustang as the sole pony car in the United States from an American brand. To add salt to the wound, as the narrator recites the aforementioned line, the Mustang in the video rips past the two animated cars, which are clearly intended to be the discontinued Chevy and Dodge muscle cars.
It’s worth noting that the Mustang GT3 will compete in the LMGT3 class against the likes of the Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R, as well as other performance car manufactures like BMW, Porsche, Lexus, and Ferrari.
While there have been rumblings of the Camaro’s return since the sixth-generation model bit the dust, enthusiasts may not appreciate the direction General Motors appears to be looking to take the iconic muscle car. More specifically, GM Global Chevy Chief Scott Bell recently hinted at the possibility of an all-electric powertrain if the Camaro were to make a return, while GM President Mark Reuss pitched a resurrected Camaro as a sporty electric vehicle with a starting price below the $30,000 mark when factoring in a $7,500 federal tax credit.
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i dont like ford but i respect the ad. shame on gm for failing the camaro…again.
We currently have a Camaro, but, sadly, our next vehicle will be a Mustang. (Convertible, of course!)
Great ad.
The end of the Camaro is sad. Not just that it happened again but the way it went out. Shortened last year of production and no meaningful final edition.
General Motors needs car people back in charge instead of these green weenies…mega amounts of ev’s sitting on lots without one customer even opening the doors to look inside.
The only green they care about is the almighty dollar. They saw the EV hype and the success of Tesla and decided they wanted a piece of the pie. They unfortunately forgot the old adage “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” and are now having to change course.
Local Ford dealer has 7 Mach-E’s (dumb name for that vehicle, but that’s another thread), sitting in the back left corner of their lot, where you don’t see them from the road. Out front, 3 Mustangs, various Ford pick-ups (including the Maverick), Explorers, and several Broncos. No Lightning on the lot! In the showroom; Mustang GT convertible and a Bronco Raptor. What does that tell you about the consumer? They aren’t shopping pure EV’s as much as they are shopping ICE and hybrid vehicles. It’s a shame GM hasn’t figure this out yet!
Yes the Mach-E name is “dumb.” I have a hard time remembering it for some reason. Is it Mach-E, or E-Stang, or what? LOL.
A local dealer had so many Mach-Es that they ran a TV commercial for them a couple of months ago. I think they may have claimed to have over 50 at the time. I looked at them a while back, and while they weren’t bad, they weren’t something I’d want to buy. For one thing I really don’t want a car with a tablet strapped to the dash, but there were other options issues. Just not appealing enough to buy one.
I don’t think the Mach-E is a bad car, crossover, or whatever it is, just call it something else. An all electric high performance Mustang named the Mach-E, that slots in next to an ICE Mach-1 just makes more sense to me.
Sadly, after owning three Camaros, I switched over to Mustangs. When the last generation of Camaro came out, I found that the car had such terrible visibility and seating that was totally uncomfortable to enter and exit. Head room was minimal. But GM kept selling the same car for years with little or no upgrades in their body style. From 2001 on I owned six Mustangs. Those are six sales GM lost.
I’ve been driving my 6th Gen Camaro for 7 years. No issues outside my own where I pulled up to a stop light too far.
Unless you have a medical condition that you can’t turn your head. You are just a bad driver if you can’t drive a Camaro.
GM doesn’t care much about visibility. Between visibility and body style they’ll go with body style. I have a second generation Colorado and the rear door window swooping up ruins right side visibility, and that’s compounded with really poor mirrors and the lack of blind spot detectors.
I’m actually concerned the Equinox EV may have such issues, given the relatively small back window. But at least it will have blind spot detectors.
Well Dennis, you are entitled to your opinion, but I purchased a new
2017 Camaro and in all honesty it’s a fantastic car. Visibility is just
fine, comfortable seats, and an overall fun sports car. As far as the
back seat room, or trunk space, I did not buy it for those things,
I use another larger vehicle for those purposes. Your comments,
like many others, are purely subjective which gave the 6th gen
Camaro an undeserved bad rap …. enough already !
Cool video. I love my 2017 Mustang V6, and no it never was all about the horsepower. It’s about the Mustang.
Camaro actually sold pretty well. GM was just incompetent and didn’t build any that people put orders in for.
Source: me. I was one of many that had an order in for a 6th Gen and GM just refused to purchase more parts to make more cars. So I and about 13 others never got their order picked up. That was only one dealership, I had an order in at 5 different large stores inFlorida. None got picked.
Carry, hard for a dealer to sell a car when the manufacturer won’t produce enough of the models the consumer wants. GM produced more V8 Camaros for the 2024 model year in a little over 4 months than they did for the whole year of production of the 2023 model. No advertising, no inventory, what did GM expect?
Camaro dude is absolutely correct!….dealerships had many orders waiting in preliminary que waiting for gm to pull them forward. Alone I had 8 orders in my desk that couldn’t be ordered or built..from LT1 to ZL1 Clients were very disappointed.
The Pontiac Fiero was killed off due to similar sales numbers. Over 20,000 a year is not enough for GM to maintain production.
An absolute disgrace to the Camaro name and loyal people who love the car; what it brought to them when driving it. GM needs to get their heads checked, amd stop this EV nonsense with the Camaro and resurrect it immediately with the next generation of small block V8s. Get it done!!!
Fact: 8 out of 10 Fords built since 2004 are still on the road. The other 2 made it home.