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Another One Done: Chevrolet Announces The End Of Camaro In 2024


Another One Done: Chevrolet Announces The End Of Camaro In 2024

It’s not like we didn’t see it coming, but yesterday Chevrolet made it official: the Camaro will be sunset at the end of the 2024 model year. The reasons are well known: GM is leaning heavily into EVs and there just isn’t enough room for a two-door, four-seat coupe that packs a V8 punch. They don’t sell, not even on nostalgia. But that isn’t going to stop GM from taking one final swipe at Camaro heritage before they move on.

For 2024, there will be a “Collector’s Package” for the RS and SS models and a limited number of ZL1-equipped cars in North America. According to GM, “The Collector’s Edition pays homage to Camaro, resurfacing ties that date back to the development of the first generation Camaro in the 1960s, most notably the program’s initial code name: Panther.”

“As we prepare to say goodbye to the current generation Camaro, it is difficult to overstate our gratitude to every Camaro customer, Camaro assembly line employee and race fan,” said Scott Bell, vice president, Global Chevrolet. “While we are not announcing an immediate successor today, rest assured, this is not the end of Camaro’s story.”

It’s hard not to be skeptical and cynical about what Camaro’s future can be. The Camaro nameplate was resurrected in 2010, eight years after the original F-body had been put to bed. In order to do that, the Zeta platform that Holden was using for the full Commordore range was shrunk enough to underpin the new car. Since Holden got the “Old Yeller” treatment in 2017, what’s left for Chevrolet to use the name on?

Speculation has many answers, but it will be up to GM to provide something that will properly live up to what the nameplate stands for. Given what we’ve seen from the General over the last few years, we aren’t holding our breath. We’ll offer a proper mea culpa if they do, but for now, wave goodbye, remember the good times, and go save an old Camaro that was cast aside years ago, back when we never thought the party would end.


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5 thoughts on “Another One Done: Chevrolet Announces The End Of Camaro In 2024

  1. Maxwell Smart

    Aw come on Frank, by 2033 the government will make it mandatory that all fossil fuel vehicles will all have to be crushed. They will give everyone a free EV in trade for all your guns and you firstborn child.

  2. Bob

    As long as I’m breathing, I won’t be buying an electric vehicle. The idea that these vehicles are more environmentally friendly is absurd and shows how ignorant people are who buy them.

  3. Curis

    Electricity is produced from the conversion of fossil fuels. Outside of nuclear, wind and solar, there is no other way to produce large scale electrical power. There is a loss during the conversion process of fossil fuels that is greater than the loss of them being used for energy outright.
    Wind and solar are nowhere near reliable or efficient enough to replace fossil fuels. The winter storm in Texas in 2021 is a good example of this.
    Wind and solar are subsidized by your tax dollars. If they weren’t, both would die immediately because the government has guaranteed a profit in this industry by using your tax dollars.
    California has mandated all EV’s by 2030, and yet their Governor has at times told people not to charge their EV’s because the power grid won’t sustain the demand.
    Lithium is being mined the world over in strip mines that create as much, if not more of a hell on earth landscape as coal.
    Coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear power are all used to produce energy. Lithium is used to produce a very life limited product that is then considered a waste product at the end of it’s life.
    You should ask yourself why the push for EV’s? Two big reasons are as follows: One, the government wants your mobility more easily controlled, all EV’s will accomplish that. The power grid, which is in decline, snd in peril of damage due to lack of security, won’t support the current level of EV’s, let alone everyone having them. Two, follow the money. Who is getting rich off of EV’s?
    I’ll add a third reason. The recent solar flare on March 10th would have shut down everything electrical if the earth had been on that side of the sun. The fossil fuel industry would have been affected as well since everything is run by computers these days. But EV’s would have been dead in the water en masse.
    EV’s are an alternative form of transportation but not an efficient one and have no business being mandated in any way.

    1. cletus8269

      not to be that guy but there are hydro dams all around where i live. i know they cant be in all places but thats a pretty big power source to overlook in any discussion like that.

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