Yahoo Finance Chevrolet Camaro Production Has Ended
Chevrolet Camaro production ended on Thursday, wrapping up a sixth generation that dated back to 2016. With no new Camaro generation expected any time soon, the GM pony car that dates back to 1967 is going dormant for the second time in the past 20 years.
Citing a GM spokesman, American Car and Racing reports that production ended on December 14. Unlike Chrysler's recent announcement of the end of 300C production, the brand has yet to put out an official announcement or share any details about the final Camaro to roll off the brand's Lansing assembly plant. GM did not immediately respond to Road & Track's request for comment.
The sixth-generation Camaro lasted nine years, but it received few major refreshes after a 2019 facelift. It also did not receive the wide variety of new performance variants that kept its Challenger and Mustang rivals fresh in showrooms for their long lives. Still, the ZL1 1LE variant stands out as among the best performance cars GM has ever made.
While both Ford and Dodge wrapped up their last generation of pony cars in the past two years, the Challenger and Mustang have successors on the way. Ford has already begun sales of a new Mustang generation, complete with a new performance variant in the Dark Horse. Dodge is still in the process of teasing what is expected to be a single-car planned replacement for both the Challenger and Charger, creating a still-unseen car that will likely be available with big electric power and possibly a gas engine. No Camaro successor has been teased.
The Camaro has already returned after going out of production once. That gap in pony car history lasted from 2003 until 2010, ending when Chevrolet introduced the fifth-generation car. GM has said that the end of the sixth-generation Camaro "is not the end of Camaro's story," but the brand has shared no details on an immediate successor and no pony car-sized development mules have been spotted in circulation. For now, and for the second time in the car's history, a lineage that dates back more than 50 years is paused.
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