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While Ford is enjoying muscle car success with a new generation Mustang, whose deliveries started earlier this year, Dodge is on the verge of pulling the plug on the Challenger and Charger duo. And if you didn't know, Chevrolet has already killed the Camaro.
That's right, the sixth-gen Chevrolet Camaro bit the dust a few days before Christmas when the last copy rolled off the line at the Lansing facility in Michigan. You might think the bowtie brand has a new generation right around the corner. After all, Dodge will reportedly launch a new muscle car, presumably under the Charger moniker, for the 2025 model year. But you'd be wrong because they don't.
Yes, you read that right: Chevy will be left without a muscle car contender, at least for the near future. Mind you, the automaker has announced that this moniker will eventually return. But it remains to be seen in what shape and form. Logic tells us that they won't ditch the muscle car segment, yet since anything can happen, we wouldn't bet on it either. After all, it's not an electric crossover, and that's what most mainstream and premium car manufacturers are mostly about these days.
On a related note, and an even sadder one for that matter, the demise of the Camaro and the delay of certain electric vehicles has made GM lay off 1,314 workers at its Lansing and Orion factories. The employees will be laid off from January 1, 2024. Lansing is where the Camaro used to be made, and the Orion facility job cuts are related to the Silverado EV and Sierra EV delay. The zero-emission models will reportedly hit the assembly line with a one-year delay.
Thus, bringing back the Camaro nameplate and using it on a seventh-generation muscle car, regardless of whether it sticks to the ICE recipe, becomes a pure EV, or maybe a mix of both, would resurrect many jobs, both at the assembly plant and at suppliers. Nevertheless, it is likely that only GM's high-ranking execs know what the future holds for the Camaro, and they're not willing to give any hints about it.
Now, while the car marque officially ended its production, the Chevy Camaro lives on in the CGI world. This time, it was wb.artist20's turn to imagine it in a different spec. The rendering artist turned the famous Bumblebee into the Rally Bee, giving it a jacked-up suspension, fender flares, new bumpers, a bulging hood, fat tires, and other bits and bobs.
In this guise, the model looks ready to take a swing at the Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato and Porsche 911 Dakar, and with the ZL1's powertrain, it would probably put them in their corners. Could this be a potential new niche for muscle cars?
Yes, you read that right: Chevy will be left without a muscle car contender, at least for the near future. Mind you, the automaker has announced that this moniker will eventually return. But it remains to be seen in what shape and form. Logic tells us that they won't ditch the muscle car segment, yet since anything can happen, we wouldn't bet on it either. After all, it's not an electric crossover, and that's what most mainstream and premium car manufacturers are mostly about these days.
On a related note, and an even sadder one for that matter, the demise of the Camaro and the delay of certain electric vehicles has made GM lay off 1,314 workers at its Lansing and Orion factories. The employees will be laid off from January 1, 2024. Lansing is where the Camaro used to be made, and the Orion facility job cuts are related to the Silverado EV and Sierra EV delay. The zero-emission models will reportedly hit the assembly line with a one-year delay.
Thus, bringing back the Camaro nameplate and using it on a seventh-generation muscle car, regardless of whether it sticks to the ICE recipe, becomes a pure EV, or maybe a mix of both, would resurrect many jobs, both at the assembly plant and at suppliers. Nevertheless, it is likely that only GM's high-ranking execs know what the future holds for the Camaro, and they're not willing to give any hints about it.
Now, while the car marque officially ended its production, the Chevy Camaro lives on in the CGI world. This time, it was wb.artist20's turn to imagine it in a different spec. The rendering artist turned the famous Bumblebee into the Rally Bee, giving it a jacked-up suspension, fender flares, new bumpers, a bulging hood, fat tires, and other bits and bobs.
In this guise, the model looks ready to take a swing at the Lamborghini Huracan Sterrato and Porsche 911 Dakar, and with the ZL1's powertrain, it would probably put them in their corners. Could this be a potential new niche for muscle cars?
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