Since GM officially announced plans to discontinue the sixth-generation Chevy Camaro, enthusiasts have been on edge for info about the future of the storied muscle car. What we’ve heard thus far has been all over the place, starting with remarks from Chevy chief Scott Bell, who was quoted as saying in a March 2023 press release that the discontinuation of the sixth-gen model “is not the end of the Camaro story.” Beyond that, we’ve also heard some comments stating that the Camaro should return as an electric performance car and even as family of battery electric performance cars. Now, GM Authority is here to bring you the latest.
What we’re hearing from sources close to the matter are two things.
First, GM has not given up on resurrecting the Camaro. This lines up with what Bell told us back in May 2024, namely to “never say never” when it comes to the muscle car returning in the future.
Second, product planners have landed on at least one aspect in the direction for the next-gen model. Sources who asked to remain anonymous tell GM Authority that the mantra surrounding any possibility of the next-gen Chevy Camaro is that it must be “affordable and attainable”, certainly more so than the sixth-generation Camaro.
Another source familiar with GM’s internal Camaro discussions tells GMA that “affordability is a priority” for the next-gen model, adding that a successor to the sixth-gen is unlikely unless lower price points are reached.
The lower price / value mantra makes sense. After all, affordability and value was what the Camaro was all about during its first three generations. It’s also one of the key elements that enabled the Corvette C8 to become a home run. In fact, the C8 Stingray – which launched at an attainable $59K starting price for the base model – has attracted a younger customer base, one that prior Corvette models haven’t been able to draw.
In much the same way, the next-gen Camaro will need to capture a much younger audience with a value play. That’s something that the sixth-gen Camaro did on the surface, but that value proposition started to slip as options and/or high(er)-performance models were added to the build.
It’s currently unclear whether attaining a low price point will carry another cost, like removing features or options. We’ll be here to tell you more when we have it, so stay tuned and be sure to subscribe to GM Authority for more Chevy Camaro news and Chevy news.
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I hope it is brought back, in ICE form only…..complete with the turbo 4, the v6 from the Cadillac, and a rowdy V8….WITH manual transmission option. I personally don’t need a ton of tech. I want a muscle car, with Apple play and Android Auto, and A/C…..don’t need the nanny safety features and packages galore that bloated the last one. The LT1 package was a good value. Something like that should be affordable and still profitable.
Give it up. Its never coming back with those options again
I’m glad trump won so that the ev mandates will fall and he will reduce cafe standards again.
You’re in for a rude awakening.
EV is the future and CAFE standards help everyone. Even you. Using more fuel and creating more emissions is a selfish and counterproductive way to satisfy your muscle car cravings. This is not a liberal / treehugger mindset – it’s a rational way of thinking. I love the smells and sounds of a good ICE, I enjoy repairing them, and they’re a ton of fun, but there’s no reason for holding onto yesterday at the expense of tomorrow.
And if you think Trump is going to do anything that doesn’t directly benefit his buddies or himself in the name of the almighty dollar, perhaps you should look at all the campaign promises he’s already crawfished on.
your dead wrong and f*** cafe standards and these ev mandates, it helps no one period and trump has won and once the voter id passes, you can kiss your little precious dems a goodbye.
You are WAY off. The EV push is from the Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street, and WEF crowd. The Boomers gave their retirement money to these evil people. Blackrock alone controls $11.5 TRILLION. Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street own the most shares BY FAR in every Fortune 500 company (including banks used to control/manipulate companies).
Since the populations in developed countries are set to plummet, the way the people in charge have decided to keep growing their power and money is to take freedoms away from younger generations and suck up their wealth. “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy” is what they are telling the younger folks. This means the people in charge want to own as much as possible and force younger people to rent/lease/subscribe to everything they own. Also, if young people can’t own anything for themselves, they can’t create wealth for themselves. EVs are just a TINY part of their agenda.
Now your talking.
That is why I voted for Team Freedom and not Team Mandate.
Coal powered EV has a LONG way to go. Too many issues, aside from lack of chargers, range and expense. It has fewer parts, but exploitation of resources, carbon footprint and pollution to manufacture are greater. And what to do with all the expensive/ hard to recycle hazardous chemicals from all those batteries (and the petroleum bases required to make them in the first place). EVs need at least another 20 years before they will ever be a one to one switch for consumers to want them. Hybrids will be the way to go – especially since we will be competing with Emperor Xi for thisr precious metals….
I could never buy the climate change argument when volcanic activity and solar discharge blanketed the atmosphere. The carbon theory is a lie. The green new deal is just that “Green” like USD Greenbacks. The old money is oil and new opportunist can’t get their hands on basement stock. So a new way was invented to use fear and manipulation to generate wealth. But that façade is about to go broke, and the old ways will prevail. Like it or not, oil is here to stay. And if GM and Dodge don’t get off their a$$es, there gonna be playing catch up again like in the 1960’s.
Not coming back. Coupes sell in low volumes even at lower prices so it would be difficult to lower the price.
Also look around nothing is cheap. Golf carts are $8k and side by sides are $30k.
Cadillac engines are more expensive vs the Truck engines.
Also CAFE is so hard to meet now. Even with Trump there will be more elections and more regulations. Companies take time yo change products and can’t afford changes every 4 years.
The past formula was to take an econo car and put a big engine in it. I can’t even get a w.o in a Nox now!. Cafe is that much an issue.
I would love to have this car back but I have looked fix ways to Sunday at an easy profitable way to do it and there are just none left. Companies need assurance of stable regulations for a number of years. They are not making 3 cylinders because the want them.
Back in 1979, I was pulled into the Firebird craze along with most young people. A trip to the Pontiac dealership got me down when the cheapest Firebirds on the lot were $8000 Esprit’s. Looking dejected, the salesman said “lets order you one you can afford”. Base price was $4995 in early 79. I kept the base V6 and 3 speed manual. Optioned with spoiler, Rally II wheels, raised white letter tires, 8-track and A/C. Selected Nocturne Blue with oyster interior. Great looking car, but slow as all get out. But, I did have me a new 1979 Firebird.
When my buddy and I had our used car dealership in the 1990’s we came across a 1979 base Firebird much like yours but with automatic and a few convenience features. The previous owner changed out the 2BBL manifold and carburetor for a 4 BBL Quadrajet and a 3.42 posi rear end and apparently a recurved distributor and some bottom end changes to the Buick V6 increasing oil pressure etc, all documented in paperwork. Can’t remember for sure but they may have put a hi po cam in also. Well that car would lay rubber for a block and would embarrass many V8’s of the time. The things you could do with those old Buick V6’s were crazy. Just depended on how much one wanted to spend
Look before anyone says build it or bring it back. Provide you actually bought a new Camaro in the last 20 years.
Understanding the politics and economics vs just freely posting a web reply are miles apart.
I’ll do better than 20 years, between wife & I we had: 1978 Firebird; 1979 TransAm; 1983 TransAm; 1987 Z28; 1994 Camaro; 2002 TransAm; and presently own 2013 Camaro SS & 2022 Camaro SS. Had wanted to get the last year built as we’d been hearing about the end of production, but was afraid of lack of supply, so we’re very glad we got our 2022, which took 9 months for delivery. And we had learned when looking for our 2002 TransAm about the lack of supply also.
Thank you. Ok that is one. Anyone else buy a Camaro in the last 20 years new? See this is the problem. Or a major part of a greater problem.
Yes Dodge built Hemi cars but they still got sold off to the French. There is little money in these in a day and age people just want to afford a new car they can drive to work and haul 6 people in.
I bought a 6 speed 4 cylinder turbo Camaro 2023 model year. I don’t know why this article says they are expensive I rejected even the tech package and got pure base LS trim with the addition of a wing spoiler and a hood decal and honestly I felt I got good value for money. Many of its peers and competitors are more expensive or not as exciting (subaru brz? toyota gr 86? Nissan Z? Mustang?). Another pro of rejecting the tech package is my screen is smaller and thus less distracting.
All in all I love my Camaro and have never been happier.
Now that’s what I call “stimulate’n the economy, man!”
1st car 1968 Camaro RS /SS. 2nd car 1975 Camaro type LT (was sick of the stock smogged down 305, so I put in a 70 LT1 Corvette motor. 3rd car 1989 Camaro IROC-Z 5.7 TPI. 4th car 1999 Camaro SS 5th car 2018 Camaro SS 1LE. GM/Chevy has gotta quit it with all the useless bezels and whistles on these new cars. It skyrockets the price and make the cars unaffordable for most common folks. Just give a two door coupe, V8 engine with a manual 6spd and a strong differential. That’s all we really want.
Dustin, some good thinking there, but the turbo 4 and cuv/cruiser V6 were big parts of why 6th gen fell flat.
Resurrect it and plant a GEN VI ICE engine in it… ( Never happen)
Sounds like they are going to build one on the trax or trailblazer platform with the three cylinder turbo. Anything else; ie V8’s turbo 6’s will take the price point too high.
Dropping the same power trains as the trucks would be one really easy way to attain both. Current platform (alpha) with a rear mounted transmission was the only vehicle of its kind in mass production (I think Aston Martin makes a couple but that’s it) when you got that kind of exclusivity, price must necessarily go up. I want the alpha platform to return. I really do, but they might have to go F body with a copy/paste truck ppwertrain and a solid rear axle. However, if they use the torque bar suspension, that might hang with the IRS mustang.
Now that’s reading between the lines to come up with a conclusion like that….
Make the Camaro affordable, with decent seating and visibility, and safety features such as back-up camera, blind spot indicators. and emergency braking.
Do not make the dash a laptop. Make the trunk useable. Make it look like a 67-68.
Give it some decent engines. Make it GEEZER friendly also! A few nice colors wouldn’t hurt.
Thats what a Corolla is for. You don’t buy a Camaro for practicality.
If so, then it must be a V8. No electric crapola. I see Ferrari is working on an EV. If that happens, like the electric Charger (there’s a joke in there) is pushing, then it is NOT a true muscle/exotic/supercar car.
If stupid enough to make it electric and add 4 doors it will sell about as well as the abortion Ford calls the Mustang. Most of the brains at GM have died off and left behind a bunch of woke imbeciles.
Totally agree! We don’t need another EV-POS!
The electric Mustang Mach-E outsold the gas Mustang Coupe in 2024. In fact the Mach-E sold about double the typical 25,000 per year that the Gen-6 Camaro had been averaging before it was killed off due to poor sales.
In other words, an SUV outsold a cramped two door high performance sports car that happen to have to same name.
My 13 years old granddaughter will like to get one. I wonder who is buying it. I wanted Camaro for me grandson but he choose Civic and he love it.
Yup thats because the Ford dealers were jam packed with 2023/2024 Mach E’s and were forced to sell them at fire sale prices. There are no discounts on Ice coupes and very few sitting on the lots. I have yet to speak with a Mustang enthusiast that likes the Frumpstang!
Sure, since the dealets were swamped with Mach Es and have to discount them. I see “none” in NYC (except for the few with the NYPD).
And with that it’s comparing apples to oranges. Mach E buyers are for those who want and EV that doesn’t koom like a kitchen appliance either wheels to mall crawl and do the family trickster thing. They aren’t going to buy a Dark Horse to take a pack of Cub Scouts on a camping run. Really.
I’m 61 and live in an area where the chargers are few and I don’t have a drive way. And I’d rather feed my senior crisis with a sexy sports car than a rolling cellphone.
It was demographic. Real car enthusiasts (most of your common low earning folks) couldn’t afford a Mustang GT given the interest rates and the post Covic effect on the market. Yet the wine and cheese crowd has always had the money to spend on the latest tech of EV’s. Just look at todays market what V8 muscle cars are going for.$$$$$$$$ The same enthusiasm is not for EV’s or an absurd Mach-E.
It sold more than the regular mustang last year, so far from an abortion. I say this time and time again, it is good that people on these sites aren’t running companies. If they were they would be bankrupt in two years after spending all the money on passion projects for a small fan base and not looking ahead or to the larger buying bases…
I agree that it should not be an EV, nor should it have four doors.
However, I read somewhere this past weekend that the Mustang Mach e outsold the Mustang coupe in 2024.
Ford indicates that they were unable to meet demand for the ICE car because of supply chain issues. They further indicate that the ICE Mustang is profitable, as opposed to the Mach-E.
Yes! Let’s learn from Ford. The Mach E electric Mustang is actually selling better than the real Mustang. Why? Look at the pricing. A performance version of the Mustang is not that far from Corvette prices. The people who would buy the current Mustang are priced out of the market! Build a new Camaro, price it right and it will sell. No electric ones please!! Thank you.
A person looking for a Corvette, Camaro or even a Supra are not the same market for an EV, PERIOD. the Mach E serves a purpose for hip people looking to buy a family EV without it looking like a Sienna.
Who’s dying off are braindead trogs who cling to a 125 year old earth killing machine technology just to compensate for their insecurities…wake up!
Whose do shortsighted to claim EVs are the answer? 1) exploitation of third world resources for the previous metals needed for batteries 2) monopolistic companies/dictaorships profiting the exploitation. 3) the reliance on coal powered powerplants to feed EVs and with that the expansion of coal plants is quicker and cheaper than nuclear (permits, cost) to catch up with the so called demand of EVs. 4) the lack of infrastructure and excessive cost to manage the hard to recycle forever chemicals in all those exhausted batteries 5) though the cars themselves have fewer components, the carbon footprint and the excessively complex supply chain yo create those components compounds these issues even further 6) lack of range abd excessive charging times 7) lack of charging stations and inconvenience of finding them if you aren’t wealthy enough to own your own home 8) the costs of the EV itself and the packaging of unnecessary features (self driving, cameras, wi fi) not necessarily required to their basic iperation lead to unnecessary expense and privacy issues (do you need to be constantly tracked to get am over the air update or mics and cameras?)
So do your research, gen whatever you are before you complain about ICE vehicles. And this is a free society, you want a 2 door its your business. DO not dictate to me that I need an EV that tariffs along its own set of complex issues. (Most of the “show” EVs here in NYC are owned by wealthy (snow flake trigger alert) who have driveways to charge at will, use theirs on weekends to “signal” but still use the huge SUV to shop/kids/commute, travel to the burbs and other heavy lifting)…
Y=another one who didn’t serve, didn’t create, didn’t marry, didn’t win.
Stick electric up your…..It’s a muscle car and runs of FOSSEL fuel.
Camaro hasn’t been a muscle car in decades. It’s a sports car now.
For sure, and a great sports car at that!!!!!
What lower price point means is building the future Camaro in Mexico, China of Korea. It that is the case I won’t buy one.
US would be best, but if that isn’t possible then Mexico and South Korea work for me in that order. Forget China .. I will never buy a vehicle built there. Never.
China isn’t that cheap to build in. If you didn’t notice, the Buick sedans back before the first trump trade war were not very cheap … Yet we’re still built in China. Chinese cars sold in China are cheap because they don’t use galvanized steel, or high strength steel for that matter, have no rust prevention other than single leaded paint coat, have no crash zone, less options than a golf cart, and a high emissions engine that lasts 50,000miles before croaking, and when I mean croak, were talking about snapping timing belts or wrapped blocks. It’s 50K for them to make what’s the equivalent of our mailbu. The S10 max sold in Mexico is almost as expensive as a Colorado, yet still uses the engine from the Chevy cobalt. That’s bad.
And there’s whole studies, a well paid (note, not overpaid) workforce consistently outperforms a coherced workforce (slave labor) lots of items are cheaper to make in America. Europe however, is overpaid.
And to further the nail in the coffin, the Mercedes Sprinter vans are made in China, and are still not able to undercut Ford’s American made vans, nor GM’s old vans.
That’s why China was looking to build factories in Mexico. Their Intentions are to build across from American plants and steal all the workforce through cartel threatenings and cut off 1/4th of the big 3 production and then try and flood the American market with said same workforce.
Please bring it back.
make it bare bones, like the COPO.
They cant do that with modern safety standards.
Actually not a COP0, but at least offer more price points. Safety laws aside, perhaps an “LS” package? I remember my neighbor’s 67 Camaro with a striagt six, auto, p/switches and an AM radio ; the only “luxe” it had was gold paint, a black vinyl top, white walls and full wheelcovers. No it wasn’t “fast” but it sure looked “cool”, back then not everyone needed a big V8 but didn’t want grannies Chevy II either. I had rented a 2016 Camaro base model on a vacation in Cali. Loved it, did what I needed it yo do, didn’t burn gas like crazy and held it’s own on the freeway. No it wasn’t a ZL1, but I loved the looks and the “Camaro” image; and you know what, even though the interior was a little snug, I loved that experience too – all part of that allure….what I’m trying to say is that the Camaro had something for everyone; they need a halo now to separate themselves from their own herd of generic SUV/CUV/EVs.
(And I’m 61, just thinking g about that 2016 shaved 30 years off me)
PS – a hybrid drive train would be nice to rope in the political set too)
The size of a Miata/Subaru BRZ with a RWD V8…..they would sell everyone they built;Dealers would be happy….sell for 5-10K over MSRP …they have lost the ADM game on the Corvette
Yes that would sell just as well as the Prowler, HHR, and SSR. Everyone SAYS they want car X, but very few actually buy them.
This is very good news!! Finally something positive from GM. ICE seems likely too, seeing as EVs are still more expensive than ICE counterparts. While I wouldn’t mind an EV as long as it is RWD and sub 4000 lbs, another V8 manual would be far more compelling!
EVs are more expensive to buy than ICE, but EVs are cheaper to design and build. The Equinox EV and Equinox ICE as very close in price.
EV drivetrains get around all emissions testing, no complex transmissions and performance is easily dialed in.
If GM brings back the Camaro as an EV it will be DOA !
My base model, 5 speed, six cylinder, 4th gen cost 14.7 K in 1994. Today adjusting for inflation would cost just over 30k. Good luck GM.
Give us a sleek , kick @ss muscle car!!!!!!!! 84-86 IROC type!!!!!!! BAM!!!!!!!!!!
sorry but an 84-86 camaro was not a muscle car
True. Pony car. The Chevelle SS was a muscle car, at least in the more distant past.
Unfortunately, when I ordered my ’85 IROC, only the 305 V-8 was available; the 350 was not.
Yeah, had to wait until 87 for a 350 option. I had an 89 IROC and it’s the only vehicle I regret selling. I’ve had some amazing vehicle over the years, but the IROC is the one I want back.
GM needs to take note that the now discontinued Challenger was money for Dodge. One body and interior for the life of the car that looks as good now as it did when it was first released. Even though it was heavy and stood kind of tall, it was masterfully designed to hide these things. Good design is timeless and I haven’t seen a lot of that out of GM oh, say for a split window vette…hee hee. Ok, ok, 66 Toronado, 67 Eldo etc. Oh, and absolutely no EV crap unless they want to LOOSE money.
Pure B. S. Just like the talk 40 years ago about a “Next Gen” El Camino.
Pontiac ALMOST had one out. I even did a study on it where they had one to sit in (it had a GTO interior in it). They had a name (G8 ST), marketing material, that was probably less than 6 months from a reveal I bet. Who knows if that could have spawned a Chevy variant?
Making it “more affordable” brings back bad memories of that 70’s abortion known as the “Mustang II”.
Exactly what platform could they build the Camaro on if they were to bring it back? It previously shared the CT4 platform, so it’s hard to believe they could build an “affordable” Camaro using that platform again. It’s also hard to believe they could develop a new platform from scratch, just for the Camaro. Without having any other sedans to share the platform with (remember Chevrolet and Buick are out of the cars business), it would be almost impossible to build an affordable Camaro on a stand alone platform. That just leaves an SUV or electric platform to build on, neither of which sound like my idea of a future Camaro.
Alpha Platform should keep getting cheaper as development costs have been amortized on tons of volume over the past 12 years. 7th gen should just be a parts bin assembled at Lansing Grand River.
The difference is that GM can utilize the CT4 or CT5 platform for Camaro and possibly a Buick Grand National or Riviera unlike Ford who only has the Mustang on the S650 platform and won’t allow Lincoln to use the same platform to give us Lincoln’s we actually want. Ford overcharges on the Mustang because what else is built on the S650 platform? Only Mustang. That’s a problem. GM could spread the costs all over and make $$.
GM was already spreading the cost over multiple models, and they still couldn’t justify keeping the Camaro. If GM could have made the Camaro more affordable (or profitable enough to continue to build) on the shared platform that they were already building it on, why would they have cancelled it? Two low volume Cadillac’s and a thrown together “parts bin” Camaro aren’t going to make the Alpha platform any more cheaper or more profitable now, than a year ago. GM has made it clear they have no interest in building broad market based sedans at either Chevrolet or Buick, so why would they be interested in adding a niche market specialty coupe like a Riviera to the Buick line?
Both GM and Ford have decided there’s no money to be made building cars, and now plan to go forward only building truck’s and SUV’s. I suspect the Mustang lives on partly because it now has no competition in it’s category, the Mustang convertible is popular with rental fleets in warm climates, and the highest performance versions (Dark Horse, GTD, etc) gives Ford a halo model that they can “claim” is an alternative or competitor of the Corvette.
One key difference between a new, lower cost Camaro and Mustang II would be power. It’s easy to make power now. 2.7l turbo from the trucks is making the kind of torque a small block made “back in the day” GM needs to stop listening to you old guys that are v8 or nothing. Every non-American manufacturer that makes a sports car has no trouble selling them without a v8.
Actually, it kinda makes torque like the big block Vortec 7.4L back in the day.
I was thinking 1960s small blocks, since that’s where these v8 or nothing people are stuck. Plus those vortex engines made pathetic power for their displacement from the factory.
Please..make a Z-28 version. An ICE 302 with 425+ HP is possible. Manual transmission standard..just do it!
I love my 2024 V6 Camaro, hope they never stop making them! It’s my 4th Camaro!
I have a 23 convertible with the 6 speed manual. Love mine too…V6 is a great performer, even better than expected.
My issue is the Covette C9. My dealer says I can order an Eray today, but I’m going to pass as the rumored C9 is too close. Chevy need to stop playing silly games. When a new Corvette is produced, do all the variants at that time and estimate when the next version will arrive. At the high prices, buyers need to plan their purchases, not be kept in the dark. Prior to my C8, I had an Audi TT RS. Audi launched all variants together and provided a 5 year plan by quarter for each vehicle.
There won’t be a C9 for at least 5 years. Get your C8
I want the Camaro to come back. Only ICE. As a Gen. Z with my 8 year old 2017 Camaro.
A Camaro is an affordable sports car with a V8.
That’s why Mustang outsold Camaro for a long time. It was cheaper.
They should reuse the Alpha 1 or 2 chassis, reuse some parts off the shelf and add an LT2 V8.
They can have the basic tech like CarPlay and leave it be.
I see you Gen Z! I see a lot of younger people driving the old pony cars around again. Love it!
I may or may not qualify as gen z but I own a 1999 ‘Vette. V8 engines and good handling are attractive to all generations!
The solution to GM’s problems is to fire Mary Barra !
GM stock has gone from ~ $36 a share when Barra become CEO to $50 a share today. Net profit margins have gone from low 1% to 6%. In the same period Ford stock has dropped from $17.50 to $5.50 a share. Ford net profit margin has dropped from almost 8% to 2%.
There is no chance that the Board fires Barra based on those results. People forget that auto companies are about making money not making money losing niche cars for enthusiasts.
Some were not around a few years ago when GMs stock was around 90.00 a share. Now there is nowhere to go but up. Marry Barry has made one bad move after another. To even consider putting a platform of batteries under the only reliable cash cow GM has ( the Chevy Van) was just p!ain ignorance. Her only survival was the woke Governmental paying her a ridiculous Stipend per vehicle to build electric vehicles. On January 20th the party is over. Her Rein of Horror is almost over.
D*** right, it’s over for mary and she knows it.
reign
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Wow, a 50% increase when inflation has doubled over the same period. Also, massive loss of market share. You know what we can that? A going out of buisness sale. That 1% was from the terrible 08 crash. That’s like saying Joe Bide n created millions of jobs post COVID. In reality, early 2K GM and 90’s GM makes Scary Mary look like a lame fish of a CEO.
Yeah, Ford found out what nice products do to profits, and foregone future R&D.
I’ve owned many Corvettes and Camaros, and I’ve owned a Lyriq for the last year, The Lyriq is very fun to drive with 500 HP and lots of torque. It is very easy to maintain.
I’ve driven Mustang Mach E , Porsche EVs, BMW EV and Mercedes EV. The Dodge Charger EV should be great fun.
I look forward to a new design Camaro EV convertible.
And if they decide to have Camaro ICE and EV we’ll have a choice.
I’ll choose the Camaro EV.
Thumbs up, Gar- not because I want an electric Camaro necessarily ( i have 2 GEN6’s, one convertible and one coupe) – but because i appreciate the full perspective here. If GM does do a Camaro EV – it’ll be better than Ford’s and if they do do a convertible that WOULD be neat…
Thanks.
I’m all about choice
For years we could choose between 4 cylinder, 6 cylinder, V8. I chose the SS with 6.2 V8 455 HP.
So add the choice of EV. It could well have 700 HP.
As I said above, I would choose EV having experienced the benefits of EV. For those who haven’t experienced EV take a test drive in a Mustang Mach E GT.
WHICHEVER engine they come out with, it absolutely MUST be faster than the average (fill in the blank plain Jane import grocery getter).
I sold an 85 IROC and bought a 96 Firebird with a V6. When I couldn’t even outrun a friend’s Camry I was done with it.
It doesn’t have to be the fastest sports car, but it HAS to be faster than grandma’s base model
Just so you show up to test drive it when it’s been out overnight at -10*F…..
Reintroduce it with a sister Firebird with second and third generation styling. Build it with accessibility for boomers AND power for generations x and y. Forget making it electric and keep it under $35k. And ditch the nanny features to save money.
Nobody is building cars for Boomers and Gen X. And Millennials, Gen Z and Alpha don’t care about cars. The future of the automobile industry is to build boring cars that are as exciting as a new refrigerator.
Don’t say all Gen Z don’t care, most don’t I know. If the Camaro comes back, don’t ruin history by sticking an attempted EV in for the next gen to laugh at. Bring it back! V8! Manual trans! And forget lane keeping assist, adaptive cruise, even blind spot monitors for all I care. I drive my own car without it jerking my wheel and pushing my brakes.
Boomers are buying their last Corvettes and Gen X now has money and time on their hands as their kids move out. Styling cues from the 3rd gen / IROC would sell Camaros to this group.
Millennials are a last cause in general.
Gen Z loves the pony cars. I see a lot of them driving around here.
I’m 26 and I have three cars, including a 1999 Corvette that I bought when it would only crank but not start. Trust me there are few things in life as engaging and enjoyable as hearing a LS1 at 5000RPM with a Billy Boat exhaust!
It seems GM is dedicated on manufacturing boring, don’t make the historic Camaro electric or family oriented, can’t imagine a four door Camaro ..
It’s all good Pontiac is back as an independent company! Manufacturing the 68 firebird Replica Out of Lordstown 2026-27!
Butler V8 with a barebones option for the enthusiasts – HUD enabled Manual mode and a Beats soundsystem. Cant wait!!!!!!
Pontiac IS BACK PONTIAC MOTOR COMPANY!
It is next to impossible to build anything affordable in the USA 🇺🇸 thanks to the UAW’s asinine labor contracts! To keep affordability GM will have to go outside the US. Thanks UAW!
just don’t make it a little SUV like a Trax and call it a Camaro.
It would be a huge, unforgivable mistake to put a three-cylinder anything in the new 7th generation Camaro. Depending on the new Carmaro’s weight, a 2.0L turbo-four would be ideal and possibly an updated 1.5L would work as well for the base motor.
GM has a 3.7 liter turbo 4 and that would make a great base motor. A little 1.5 would be a mistake and too wimpy!
Maybe the Camaro should have a sedan but make the 4-door the Malibu, an rwd Malibu should subsidized Camaro, CT4 and CT5. Even reintroduced Firebird under Pontiac while they’re at it.
Needs two engines. 2.7 turbo 4cyl and bring back the 350 5.7 liter V8. Manual and automatic transmissions. Keep options and price lower.
Why 350? Why not the same 376 in the trucks? Be cheaper to use the same engine.
Right, 350 was good in it’s day, but I’d not go back.
Regardless of which models survive, GM needs to make state of the art modular ICE vehicles, with mild hybrid variants. 48V, ethernet, POE, PDM, gigacasting, epoxy/rivets, magnesium, etc. Stick the most common and cheapest small block variants – 5.3/4.3 – with 12.6″/13.6″ Corvette brakes – with variants as expensive as people are willing to pay. Software defined vehicles will be the end – make them open source.
Please make a rear engine rear wheel drive ICE Camaro with manual option. 400+ hp
FAT CHANCE on a new Camaro. GM makes 2 cars–the Vette and the soon to be killed off Malibu. SUV’s / Trucks are profit to GM..They are taking a bath on EV’s that NO ONE wants. MARY should be fired.
They made $1.4 billion on the Hummer alone. The Hummer is also the foundation of the Silverado EV, Sierra EV, Brightdrop, and Escalade IQ. The cells, motors, drivetrains, and electronics are shared between all GM EVs.
They still lose money on every EV they sell. Despite government handouts, tax tax advantages to the company, tax credits to buyers, and favorable loan rates for them. ICE trucks and SUVs carry gm.
I’m not sure how the math works. The numbers I have show that GM has sold a total roughly 5,000 EV Hummers since 2021. A profit of $1.4B would mean a profit of $280,000 on each unit sold.
GMA has those sales numbers here – and it was over 13k just for last year: https://gmauthority.com/blog/gm/gmc/gmc-hummer-ev/gmc-hummer-ev-sales-numbers/
I’d believe that $1.4B in revenue, whether it is profitable is a question for the accountants.
Affordability and value seemed to get lost with the Camaro’s rebirth. The bulk of the ones I saw us sell were the upscale SS models. As if the fathers bought their daughters Camaros like THEY would have liked to have when they were in high school. So the price point escalated and did not stop.
Then came the lifestyle options like Ambient Lighting, which “the kids” all wanted to have. THAT got the car into markets it was not intended for, to me.
Get the car back to its roots. A performance car that can be “bare bones” performance or “luxury touring” depending upon how it is optioned. Get rid of the junk options and features, focusing on a great chassis, good engines and powertrains, and a nice interior and sound system with real value rather than cosmetic geegaws.
A new and better version of the Gen II and Gen III cars. Let some of the options be through the GM Accessories program and make them easy to install.
The basic and mid-level cars should have a price point less than Mustang and Charger AND be a better car in all respects! Let the high-end level car be more limited production, too. With the bulk of Camaros being more like Mustangs and Challengers with V-6 engines rather than V-8s. It seemed that everybody headed toward the SS Camaros and above rather than building volume in the lesser models, which probably drove buyers to Ford and Dodge in the process.
Affordability is key to any Camaro’s success; it’s actually the key to nearly every GM product’s success. The price has to align with the prospective buyers’ income.
Camaro was once a product that appealed to, and was near universally driven by, young people. In its heyday, it was a product for 18-30 year olds. Today it’s more likely to be driven by folks a generation older.
Any future Camaro would need to be smaller, less bulbously styled and considerably cheaper. I would suggest a lithe body inspired by the Italianate early Gen 2 cars and priced in the $30K to $45K range rather than $33K to $88K.
If there is going to be another Camaro, it’s going to have to reinvent itself. Clever styling and a useful body configuration are a must…also great fuel economy, with realistic performance figures so that more folks would be interested in owning such a vehicle. Big, fat noisy V8 powered Camaro’s are a thing of the past, people are looking for something that is very attractive but at the same time, useful. Thats one of the reasons the Camaro of late failed. Totally useless, with no backseat or any kind of headroom to speak of and with a pathetic excuse for a trunk, too wide and heavy of doors, plus an increased price that scared a lot of would be buyers away from the last generation of Camaro.
The new Camaro needs to be a popular platform that younger folks might enjoy, give it great looks, spirited performance and handling and for gosh sakes make the pricing able to draw in folks who would love something in the low 30 grand range with a decent amount of standard equipment and make it available with a manual 5 or 6 speed transmission! Bring back the Camaro of the first generation in overall design, but with a hatchback (like the 3rd generation), remember to always “think ahead of the game” but also remember the past and what made the Camaro the popular “got to have it” car that everyone enjoyed for years.
Maybe it’ll have to be a Hybrid and ICE combined vehicle, who knows but one thing is for certain, there is a good sized market out there for a “got to have it” vehicle, but you can’t fool the new car buying public because they’ve already got many different choices today to choose from, so whatever you do GM, don’t try to fool the public by making this Camaro in a foreign country (and yes, Mexico and Canada are foreign countries) and pushing it off as a “Good Old American Detriot Iron”, vehicle unless it’s actually made in Michigan! Good luck GM, you can either build another exciting and desireable car for the masses or…a disgusting pathetic POS that maybe sell good for just a year or two then…fail miserably. It’s your call.
You can give my less creature comforts. Give me a V8 and a 4 speed, maybe air conditioning. That’s it. As long as is sounds good and is fast. Similar to the 1969 L-88 corvette,
If sedan / cars are not popular someone better tell KIA, Toyota and all other foreign manufacturers. It’s very sad to see GM’s Chevrolet line up. One car and numerous boring SUV’s and trucks. Bring back the rich history of the Camaro, Impala, Malibu and Chevelle SS.
Should, possibly, might, could. Wow, that was a very informative read
An auto fan site last week asked about opinions on overpriced vehicles and the Mustang was at or very near the top. $50K for a GT is absurd. Try $35K. THAT’S the problem. It doesn’t cost that much to build. It’s 100% gouging.
Everything in this economy has become “Boomer Priced”. By that, i mean that the Boomers are the largest and wealthiest generation in history. As such, everything in the US economy is priced to what THEY can afford, after DECADES of building wealth and with a “this is the last one of these I’ll ever buy, damn the price” mentality. Younger people on whole simply can’t compete or afford things within this environment.
Just what we wanted; an E-maro (not).
For a Gen 7, it’d have to make financial sense. The bean counters wouldn’t let that happen unless it sits atop an existing platform. Realize that’s what was required for Gen 5 and Gen 6. You say you want affordable ICE ? The Korean builtTrax/ Envista FWD is all there is. Lol. The Cadillac underpinnings used for Gen 6 are ex$pensive and won’t be around more than a few years, at most. If it happens, it’ll be an EV. For cripes sake, let it die and to all GM Authority authors, give it a rest. Suggest the real buyers get looking right away for a clean, low mileage Gen 5 or Gen 6 before they all become collector cars and that ain’t far off.
Bring back a retro IROC-Z model, with T-tops, true dual exhaust, big V8 engine, magnetic ride control, Recaro seats, and manual or auto transmission. Let it have a back up camera and that’s enough for me.
This would get a lot of money from me.
– More affordable is GREAT!
– It must have at least an OPTION to get a V8
– NO CUV/SUV, it MUST be a 2 door pony car
GM first introduced the LT1 Camaro so that buyers could get access to a V8 at a relatively lower price, and it cost $35,000. Now, I’m having trouble finding a used LT1 for less than $35K!! What’s the definition of “affordable” nowadays?
Supply and demand is the problem with price on used. No more new Camaros being build. Not a lot of used ones out there. People who have one plan on keeping their car. I have a 2022 1SS with 900 miles on it.
Also, if GM does revive the Camaro, please make it difficult to steal. On the 6th gen, all criminals need is access to the OBD II port to clone a key.
The Camaro should return. There should be variety: a light four-cylinder, a six, and a V8. There should also be hybrid and electric versions. Think of the future: if eights or even sixes aren’t possible, you’ll want electricity all or in part to create performance.
No four-doors: Cadillac already has that covered, and maybe Buick will want to have one.
More gaslighting. The Camaro isn’t coming back they way we want. It will be a pos ev.
As others have noted, GM offered an “affordable” Camaro: the LT1 trim. For $34k you had an lt1 V8. You could even add NPP, Recaros, a bose system, etc on top if you wanted.
They still didn’t sell and GM still killed the Camaro.
GM ignored the perceived safety/visibility concerns and required you to purchase more expensive trims to get blind spot monitoring. GM didn’t market the car at all or update it.
GM could have easily built an “affordable” 7th gen based on the CT4. They didn’t. They don’t care.
It’s over, the Mustang won.
The Camaro could’ve had a chance if it was a 2 plus 2 version of a Corvette C7 instead of being a generic retro mobile that was more caricature than tribute.
Could you imagine a little coupe based off the CT4-V chassis (the smallest of the alpha footprints) complete with high revving V8 like the LS7.
Imagine an all V8 line-up, a small displacement 4L V8 as the base engine (way awesomer than a V6 because…science reasons)
Then a high output V8 as the SS version, maybe a true 327 (5.4L).
Then add Boost for performance versions, or go all out and add flat-plane crank deliciousness in all it’s glory.
I do hope they bring it back as a bare bones ICE pony car in Coupe and Convertible body styles. It should have a small V6 and a small V8 option and Analog gauges with no video game options for the instrument panel. Also, make sure it has a 6 speed option for sure.
IF THEY BRING IT BACK AS AN ELECTRIC CAMARO THEY CAN NAME IT THE CAMARO DOA
MODEL. DOA= Dead On Arrival
We all know GM/Chevrolet would screw this up. Stop pushing EV on a Camaro. Offer gas and hybrid option. Gas 4 cyl & 8 cyl options. Dont force alot of extra features to jump up price. Give customer the options to pick and choose from. They want a loaded Camaro they will have to pay for it. Other customers wont want a loaded one. GM if possible find out first what the customer really wants in the car as standard features.
I, myself now believes that everyone has spoken their DISAPROVAL of Mark Dickens about creating a “(Electric Vehicle)”: We enthusiast’s crave future variants of the “True” Camaro that was created from the origins around the 1967 Camaro! If Mark, Blue prints a camaro with a battery pack; that will officially be the termination of a great model!
Listening to these comments provides great entertainment. First let me say I am a child of the 60’s. I owned a 66 GTO a 68 & 70’s Firebird (Ram Air IV), a 68 Camaro, and a lot of other performance cars. I currently own a C8 Z06. The point I am getting at is that I love of my ICE powered cars. However, if anyone thinks that EV’s are a pipe dream or says that no one wants one, you are dreaming. EV’s will continue to take market share, have more power, longer range and faster charge times. If there is anything I have learned over my life is that change is inevitable. Accept it or become extinct. I will continue to drive and enjoy my Z06, and I hope a ZR1. But that will be next to my project electric truck that will be using a GM electric crate motor. So, the fun goes!!
The point of most peoples complaints about electric is about enthusiasts cars. The camaro is supposed to be an enthusiasts car, V8 rwd, noise, speed, awesome. The EV’s don’t appeal to the same senses that a muscle car does. I don’t know many people cross shopping a CT5-V Blackwing against a Tesla. They are 2 completely different machines. One is a crazy fast piece of technology, the other is a crazy fast, exciting to feel and listen to enthusiasts car.
Make as many EV’s as necessary to keep a V8 muscle car.
This means it should not be a Sigma type platform GT car, any new Camaro should have a light weight high strength simplified RWD platform. This new platform would be shared with other potential GM RWD/AWD nameplates in SWB (Camaro/Firebird) and LWB iterations. But for this to happen new leadership is required, it wont come from the current set who Okayed lower case gm logo.
And what other potential RWD/AWD vehicles (that would actually sell and make a profit) are you thinking? And would accommodating those other nameplates/designs (sedans, cuv’s, etc.) mean that the pony car variant would be compromised as a result of that shared platform’s necessary flexibility?
GM has many serious problems to overcome. Quality and reliability are two. GM needs to concentrate on them and building mainstream ICE and electric vehicles with contemporary design. No way to generate enough volume to make manufacturing an EV Camaro profitable at today’s cost of design and manufacturing.
Camaro would be nice with a small v8. Manual trans PLEASE! Stripper version with optional A/C, no power windows, no traffic sensors, cameras, etc. I love my c8, but would like to have a manual Camaro again also.
Make it lighter, give us some 60s and 70s colors. What’s old could be new again
I’ve been a camaro fan since my first one in 1975. I will NOT be purchasing a GM product going forward. The EV product fails my check list in many aspects. Plus, GM has removed the Android Auto and Apple Car Play from the infotainment center, a deal breaker! I hear Ford (did I say that?) is still building the ICE Mustangs! I may have to check them out!
If it does come back, make it so you can see out of the damn thing. That is were the Mustang truly excels.
If Camaro comes back as an EV, it will never be in my driveway. I have a 2021 2SS and you will NEVER have the sound of the Camaro in an EV version. I love Camaros but I refuse to buy ANY electric cars. We are not doing anything for air and climate pollution as long as China isn’t doing thier part. Additionally, we don’t have the infrastructure for EV cars and damn, I pay Duke Energy enough money for electricity. Just my opinion.
Why do you think the rich and the elite got into classic car collecting to raise the prices on the muscle car and car building when I was growing up I built many older Camaros mustangs cudas even a road runner in the late 80’s early 90’s in my teenage years it was way cheaper to do and easy we used to take our paychecks go to the junk yard but a build able engine like $100 or less maybe pour another couple grand at most get 400-500hp now you can’t hardly get a decent block for a decent price and you easily drop 10-20k and not even hit 500hp they took something away from people with less money away but on the everything going ev won’t happen till they fix our electric grid no way it can handle everyone going ev in Cali they told people for weeks not to charge their evs over the last two summers cause their grid couldn’t handle it
If it comes back as an EV, it will die again, but quicker.
As an owner of a 70 Z28/RS, a 2010 1LE and other Hot Rods I can truly appreciate the “want” for a nostalgic new Camaro. If everyone understood the cost of building tooling for a vehicle for a niche market they would understand why it is unlikely. I’m not a tree hugger but the World NEEDS to transition away from ICE vehicles. If you want a vintage vehicle that drives like new, go out and buy a new aftermarket chassis, body, parts, LS7, Tremec and build one. Everything can be bought new to build a complete 69 Camaro that drives and handles like new and pulls like a mule. Those of you who say, “I don’t have those skills or funds” don’t truly appreciate the market. LEARN. “Boomers” are the generation who worked long and hard, saved, invested wisely and can now appreciate buying back some of our youthful indiscretions, like Vintage Muscle Cars and Trucks. Oh, by the way, along with working 60+ hrs a week we still learned to “build/work on” old cars and trucks. Instead of whining about someone else not doing what you “want” go and do it yourself. Please stop bitching about boomer’s successes. The old addage of “Get a good education, get a good job, work hard, save money and you can have what you want.” still holds very true. All the BS about needing a good work/life balance does NOT mean working 16hrs a week, vacationing twice a year, and living with your parents. Boomers are the most phycologically stabile generation there is and we worked damn hard and long to get where we are. EVERY Boomer I know has had an awesome work/life balance. Wanting everything and doing nothing about it is the single greatest source of stress. That work/life balance “youth” now wants will keep you working (16hrs a week) til you’re gone. Suggestion: Have Dave Kindig (or your choice) build exactly what you want, whatever it is. Thats my rant.
I think they should bring back the firebird base model. That would be affordable and you could add what you wanted to it.
Chevy really needs a front-engine fiery v8 coupe to sit below the vette. They can also make a version for Cadillac. It needs to have a long, sloping roof with a lift back. Make it the old Vega, or call it whatever. But they need something to replace the Camaro.