Certain car companies (ahem, Mercedes!) call their sporty station wagons shooting brakes, yet we all know what this term normally stands for three-door estates. Just like coupes should only have two doors.
Do you remember the golden days of motoring when real shooting brakes used to be quite common? Numerous automakers gave it a few shots at this body style back then, including Chevrolet with its iconic Nomad, which has been given a new virtual lease on life.
But why virtual? Because it only exists in Fantasy Land. Wb.artist20 shared these renderings on social media recently, which portray a hypothetical modern take on the Chevy Nomad using the brand's defunct muscle car. Thus, you can call it a Camaro Shooting Brake, if you will, though the 2025 Nomad sounds better to us.
The pixel manipulator gave the muscle model a longer roof that slightly arches towards the rear. The digital illustrations show it with a wide body kit consisting of flared wheel arches and fat side skirts. The model also has a sporty apron, a muscular hood, a five-fin diffuser with cut-outs for the quad exhaust tips, a generous rear wing, and a few other special touches.
Photo: Instagram | wb.artist20
The entire face reveals its true nature, as it was lifted straight from the discontinued Camaro, and the taillamps are also the same. The bowtie brand's logo is displayed in black at both ends, and we can also see a Nomad emblem below the right taillight and a ZL1 badge on the other side, suggesting that it hides some serious firepower under the hood.
Yep, that would be GM's 6.2-liter V8 equipped with a supercharger. On the final Camaro ZL1, the lump produced 650 horsepower (659 ps/485 kW) at 6,400 rpm and put 650 pound-foot (881 Nm) of torque under the driver's right foot, with the peak thrust being available at 3,600 rpm.
Even though the older Hellcats from Dodge were more potent, and so was Ford's S550 Mustang Shelby GT500, the Camaro ZL1 used to hold a special place in the hearts of enthusiasts of all ages, some of whom are still weeping about General Motors pulling the plug on the Camaro at the end of 2023.
No one knows what the future holds for this nameplate, with the automotive giant stating that it will return eventually without going into specifics. The logical move would be to use this moniker on a brand-new muscle car, preferably with ICE and EV power, to take a swing at Dodge's latest Charger series. At this point, we only hope that Chevrolet won't use the Camaro name on a crossover of some sort, or if it does, they should at least give the world another new muscle car.
After a series of unfortunate events put an end to Cristian's dream of entering a custom built & tuned old-school Dacia into a rally competition, he moved on to drive press cars and write for a living. He's worked for several automotive online journals and now he's back at autoevolution after his first tour in the mid-2000s. Full profile
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