GM approves a new Camaro

[detamble13]

Originally Posted by cellsafemode

I really do not want a gas powered car for my next car. I'd love an electric gen 3 looking camaro. But i'll take some sort of sedan that looks like a camaro. Though, honestly, after being burned by gm for not standing behind the camaro multiple times and the lack of pushing the ecrate for retrofits, i'm kinda looking at the mustang mach e. It's not as tall as an suv and doesn't look bad in person. Whatever my next car is, it's 100% going to be full electric and not tesla, otherwise i'll just keep this 2016 for another 10 years and look again, and maybe by then US models will have solid state batteries and free up design options. Gm should really look at competing with the mach e in the meantime and stop trying to make a semi-racecar for a demographic that can't afford it.

There are currently options out there for you that don't require the Camaro name slapped on an SUV. You've mentioned the Mach E, there is also the Chevy Blazer EV. In SS trim it makes 615hp and 650 ft lbs. Ford sold out the Mustang name and I'm hoping gm avoids the same mistake. Plus introducing another SUV to your lineup seems equivalent to eating while having to take a shit.

[Martinjlm]

Originally Posted by 102SS

Ford has a EV SUV waiting in the showroom for you

You are in the minority here 98% want ICE only in anything wearing the Camaro name.

I guess I'd wind up in the 2%. Chevrolet has Equinox and Equinox EV, Blazer and Blazer EV, Silverado and Silverado EV, Corvette and Corvette E-Ray, Corvette ZR1 and ZR1X. If they want to do a Camaro and a Camaro EV I won't hate them. Just buy the one you want, ignore the one you don't want.

[olrocker]

Originally Posted by Commando16SS

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2026/04...e-know-so-far/

As expected -

Making it a 4 door makes a lot of sense given that there are no remaining sedans in the GM lineup. GM can use a single platform under a single nameplate to cover a wide variety of customers - average consumers looking to go from point A to B, customers who want a 4 door sedan that has performance characteristics (Chevy SS successor), etc.

If they do green light the two door variant, it will most likely come later as it won't be a volume seller given the current state of the 2 door performance coup market.

TLDR - it seems that GM is following Chrysler's strategy with the Charger (minus the EV variant which is not supported on the Alpha platform).

I sounds like GM at least realizes putting the Camaro name on a 4 door will - not could - cause severe backlash from 59 years of Camaro legacy enthusiasts.

In case people have forgotten, the Camaro turns 60 next year.

Ford leaned their lesson from the Probe affair.

[Caveman_SS]

I've always loved the 4-door GM muscle cars like the G8's and the SS's. While I was in Australia there were a TON of Holden Commodores/HSV muscle sedans and they looked great. That style of Australian muscle car sedan would be welcomed by me. I just wish they wouldn't call it a Camaro... Maybe use another familiar 4-door name like Impala or something. Just my preference. Maybe they could get creative with the "Panther" nameplate somehow with the fabled re-release of the Camaro.

[olrocker]

Originally Posted by Caveman_SS

I've always loved the 4-door GM muscle cars like the G8's and the SS's. While I was in Australia there were a TON of Holden Commodores/HSV muscle sedans and they looked great. That style of Australian muscle car sedan would be welcomed by me. I just wish they wouldn't call it a Camaro... Maybe use another familiar 4-door name like Impala or something. Just my preference. Maybe they could get creative with the "Panther" nameplate somehow with the fabled re-release of the Camaro.

And that’s fine. They can slap any other name they want on there. Lord knows there was a contingent of people who weren’t happy the Impala and Malibu names went on rather cheap, rudimentary front wheel drive sedans in the 90s when in their minds the Impala was always the ‘62 dual quad 409, 4 speed SS with posi that Brian Wilson wrote a hit record about.

[RIPws6]

Originally Posted by olrocker

I sounds like GM at least realizes putting the Camaro name on a 4 door will - not could - cause severe backlash from 59 years of Camaro legacy enthusiasts.

In case people have forgotten, the Camaro turns 60 next year.

Ford leaned their lesson from the Probe affair.

Agreed. This goes back to my original post.

The source of this article called it a next generation Camaro then confusingly called it a replacement.
You don’t replace a Camaro with a Camaro. A replacement would suggest something to fill the void with something else.

The brass at GM has already made their case for going in a different direction, most notably, the narrowing 2 door niche segment.
That makes me a niche buyer and I’d rather see a 7th Gen but I’m keeping expectations more in line with what we are literally being told.

I’m nearing retirement and my financial goals don’t include whatever this is gonna be. I’ll keep my 6th Gen and I’ll continue to love it like the day I bought it brand new.

I know it’s very early in the process, but the author of that article should be careful about using terminology such as “next generation Camaro“
The follow up article even says they may not even call it a Camaro at all.

[cooldawg]

A Camaro sedan sounds about right for these people… The car could stand on its own as a Malibu or Chevelle. How many buyers does the Camaro look or badge bring to the table?

All I can do is not buy it.

I like the C8, but bummed they’re holding back exposed carbon fiber aero for grand sport. That stinks… could just be supply chain issue, however.

SRT needs to do a sporty Camaro like coupe and just stick with RWD SC 6.2. If priced around base trim grand sport, they would move a few.

[lowke]

Makes no sense to make the Camaro a 4 door when a Buick and Cadillac are on the same platform.

[cellsafemode]

Originally Posted by 102SS

Ford has a EV SUV waiting in the showroom for you

You are in the minority here 98% want ICE only in anything wearing the Camaro name.

Perhaps, but if the majority here represented anything but a vanishingly small minority in the real world, we wouldn't be talking about a hypothetical return of the Camaro for the 2nd span of time it's been cancelled.

[cellsafemode]

Originally Posted by detamble13

There are currently options out there for you that don't require the Camaro name slapped on an SUV. You've mentioned the Mach E, there is also the Chevy Blazer EV. In SS trim it makes 615hp and 650 ft lbs. Ford sold out the Mustang name and I'm hoping gm avoids the same mistake. Plus introducing another SUV to your lineup seems equivalent to eating while having to take a shit.

There are still people who think the 5th and 6th gens aren't real camaro's because they're not fbody's.

A name is just a name. Call it a camaro, call it whatever ...we'll never see another pony car. The right competitive vehicle is against the mach e. I'd certainly like to see something smaller than the mach-e though. I'm just not delusional to think any new cars are going to fit the basically nonexistent market that i really prefer and that i've driven across 3 generations. So the option is either an overly expensive and year long retrofit...or the closest thing that is available that's new. I dont mind if they call it a camaro... It's not like any other potential offering that isn't electric would be any closer to past camaro's.

Luckily i'm not in the market yet. My 2016 still has another 10 years of life...easily. i can wait for solid state batteries to eliminate the need for huge batteries and open up design options.

[Bosse'sBoss]

6th gen Camaro is the last Camaro build by genius Al Oppenheimer, I don't know if the 7th gen Camaro would be that good or better

[Mr_Draco]

Originally Posted by cellsafemode

The right competitive vehicle is against the mach e.

The Mach-E is a competitor to nothing and as such there is no reason to be competitive against it. It has trouble selling 1,000 a month. A market so small to sell 12,000 a year isn't worth developing a new vehicle compete in.

But we are forgetting GM already has a competitor, the Equinox EV. Anyone that cross shops the Mach-E also looks at the Equinox EV. Both are the same dimension wise just the Mach-E puts out more power. If the power difference bothered GM enough to develop a completely new vehicle, all they would have to so it release a higher trim level of the Equinox instead. Any vehicle they make to compete with the Mach-E will steal sales from the Equinox and Blazer EV's which they don't want to do.

With the low sales of the Mach-E and the fact they already have a vehicle that buyers compare it to, there is absolutely zero reason to develop a new vehicle.

[blackgloves]

12 pages in and people are still talking crossover and electric? Lol

GM announced it was being built on the Alpha II platform which means 99% chance its a car.

[blackgloves]

Originally Posted by Mr_Draco

The Mach-E is a competitor to nothing and as such there is no reason to be competitive against it. It has trouble selling 1,000 a month. A market so small to sell 12,000 a year isn't worth developing a new vehicle compete in.

But we are forgetting GM already has a competitor, the Equinox EV. Anyone that cross shops the Mach-E also looks at the Equinox EV. Both are the same dimension wise just the Mach-E puts out more power. If the power difference bothered GM enough to develop a completely new vehicle, all they would have to so it release a higher trim level of the Equinox instead. Any vehicle they make to compete with the Mach-E will steal sales from the Equinox and Blazer EV's which they don't want to do.

With the low sales of the Mach-E and the fact they already have a vehicle that buyers compare it to, there is absolutely zero reason to develop a new vehicle.

Thats almost exactly how the Camaro was born. Ford had the mustang and it was basically seen as a 1 of 1. Like it or not, electric vehicles are the future. We're just in the early stages of the transition so the hurdles are still there. 30 years from now there will probably be three times as many electric vehicles as there is now on oir roads