The Now-Dead Chevy Camaro Just Had Its Best Sales Year Since 2019

Camaro Sells Strong in Final YearChevrolet

Despite being one of the best sports cars around, the Chevrolet Camaro was never a volume seller like the Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger. That was likely one reason Chevrolet announced that the on-again, off-again nameplate would once again be meeting its demise early last year, with the final cars rolling off the production line last December. The year’s now over, the car’s now dead (RIP), and the Camaro had its best sales year since 2019.

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Chevrolet dropped its Q4 sales report earlier this week, which has a host of interesting nuggets to parse out. But the most interesting piece of data was that the venerable Camaro didn’t just sell a few more cars than prior years, it sold over 10,000 more cars than it did last year. That’s also true for 2022, 2021, and 2020. That’s a helluva sales bump for an outgoing sports car, even one as fantastic to drive as the Camaro was.

Now it must be said that a few things were going on in the world during those years to depress sports car sales. The public pulled back on the purse strings in terms of fun-spending and major purchases, the sort of dollar-waving you do when buying a sports car. But 2023 was plagued with rising inflation and sky-high interest rates, too, so it’s not like there weren’t factors to depress such transactions.

There was also a chip shortage that hit GM, and the Camaro in particular, hard. But Chevrolet’s competitors didn’t suffer the same sort of flagging demand as the Camaro, staying pretty even in sales throughout the last few years. Nor did they see the bump the Camaro’s final year saw as the Mustang’s sales only marginally went up, while the Challenger saw a 10,000-unit decline in its final year.

Both still beat the Camaro’s sales by 20,000 and 10,000 cars respectively, however.

But what’s the old saying again? You don’t know what you have until it’s gone. Seems that a lot of people took that adage to heart and made sure they had a set of keys as the final Camaros rode off into the sunset. Too bad Chevrolet made the Camaro go out with a whimper and not a bang. The only consolation to GM’s lackluster fanfare is that a lot of people now have one of the greats residing in their garages.

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