Entering the Chevrolet Camaro in Australia’s most important touring car series has been GM’s greatest demonstration of faith in its compact car in recent times. Other than that, he allegedly canceled the Z / 28 and, in June 2019, planned to kill the Camaro entirely in 2023. Emphasis on the past, however, as a new Land Down Under report suggests the current Camaro could instead remain floating until 2026.
This development comes through Australia Which car, which “understands” the cancellation of the compact car has been postponed to 2026. At this point, the two rivals of the Camaro should receive redesigns, with the Mustang supposedly switching to an architecture derived from the Explorer in 2022, and the Challenger / Upload to an upgraded platform in 2023, all three offering hybrid energy. If GM have given the Camaro a suspension of execution as reported, it could be an attempt to court buyers less interested in hybrid engines than the traditional combination of a V8 and a Camaro manual transmission.
However, GM may also cover the other end of the sports car spectrum, with an unspecified executive being quoted in June 2019 confirming “a conventional two-door sports car for Chevrolet” as “part of future electric vehicle plans. of GM “. The said sports car may look more like the Camaro than the Ford Mach-E with the Mustang, with former Camaro engineer Al Oppenheiser overseeing GM’s EV development in 2018, a role in which he strongly influenced development of the 1,000 horse Hummer GMC.
Although we contacted GM for a statement about the future of the Camaro, a Chevrolet spokesman had nothing to offer and refused to “get involved in speculation related to potential product deadline announcements”. In other words, don’t expect a show of loyalty to the Camaro unless your sales run counter to the 2020 trend and find momentum again – enough order with no apparent Z / 28 to reignite the hype.
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