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2017 Chevrolet Camaro LT, 2SS Convertible Are Cheaper Than MY 2016 Equivalents

The model year 2017 brings little changes to the Chevrolet Camaro, but nevertheless, all of them are gladly welcomed. Also, Chevrolet had dreamt up an incentive for Mustang owners.
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First, let’s start with the model year 2016. If you own or if you are a lessee of a Ford Mustang, General Motors will offer $2,000 in GM bonus cash towards the lease or purchase of a 2016 Camaro. Customers are not required to trade in their Mustangs to comply for the incentive. For the 2017 Chevrolet Camaro, General Motors only offers a $1,500 rebate on vehicles in stock.

Compared to the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro, the model year 2017 in all LT configurations and 2SS Convertible guise are $1,000 cheaper than their predecessors. The price list, sans the $995 destination, starts from $25,905 for the entry-level 1LT Manual Coupe with the 2.0-liter turbo four-banger. The 1SS Coupe, on the other hand, is $36,905. As for the range-topping offerings, the Camaro ZL1 Coupe is $61,140 sans the still unconfirmed gas guzzler tax, while the ZL1 Convertible is $67,140. And that's a helluva lot of money.

In other words, the Ford Mustang continues to be about a grand cheaper than the base model in the Camaro range. The ZL1 is roughly three grand cheaper than the 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, which isn’t that bad considering that the 6.2-liter supercharged small-block V8 engine produces 650 horsepower and the same 650 lb-ft (881 Nm) of harrumph as the Hellcat.

Also new for the model year 2017 is an exterior color teased by General Motors with the advent of the 1LE package. Dubbed Krypton Green, this eye-catching paint job will become available on the LT and SS in the spring of 2017. The ZL1, unfortunately, can’t be had in Krypton Green paint.

From a sales standpoint, the Camaro still has a lot of catching up to do. In the last three months (August, July, June), the Ford-branded pony car sold 8,299, 9,565, and 9,775 units, respectively. By comparison, Chevrolet's weapon of choice only managed 5,604, 5,520, and 4,969 units, respectively.
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About the author: Mircea Panait
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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