In a launch, the GM model prompt that the Camaro was heading into “retirement,” after a nine-year run in its present iteration. The final Camaros can be in-built January 2024 on the Lansing Grand River Meeting Plant in Michigan.

Throughout that span, the sixth-generation Chevy Camaro earned kudos for its vastly improved dealing with, for its rorty ZL1 version, and for its makes an attempt at gas effectivity with a turbo-4 version rated at greater than 300 hp.

Gross sales of the Camaro have slowed dramatically for the reason that present mannequin was launched, nevertheless. The Camaro now runs a distant third in muscle-car gross sales, behind the Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger, which have swapped the lead over the previous few mannequin years. Final yr Chevrolet offered 24,652 Camaro coupes and convertibles.

Chevrolet additionally introduced that it’s going to have fun the Camaro with the addition of a Collector’s Version package deal for the RS and SS fashions. Particulars of the package deal can be accessible nearer to the beginning of orders this summer season.

GM has not confirmed a successor, however in its launch Scott Bell, vice chairman, International Chevrolet, famous that, “Whereas we aren’t saying a direct successor at the moment, relaxation assured, this isn’t the tip of Camaro’s story.”

In 2021, rumor emerged that Chevrolet may exchange the Camaro with an electrical efficiency sedan. Different hypothesis says it’s going to arrive as an electrical SUV, and that the Corvette may additionally get an electrical SUV.

That chapter has but to be written, however the finish of the Camaro as a gas-powered automobile is imminent.