The Chevrolet Camarosports activities automotive, arch-rival to the Ford Mustang, might make a comeback if the ‘components’ is correct, says Normal Motors president Mark Reuss.
The sixth-generation Camaro – which at present races in Australia’s Supercars racing class in opposition to the Mustang – went out of manufacturing in 2023.
On the time, GM – which owns Chevrolet – assured devastated fanatics and followers “this isn’t the ultimate chapter for the nameplate”.
Now, GM President Mark Reuss has mentioned possibilities of a seventh-generation Camaro will rely on whether or not GM might ship a automotive worthy of the title.
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“I believe that components of magnificence, and a bit of little bit of performance and enjoyable, all of that’s essential,” the GM boss instructed The Detroit Information.
“If we had been getting again into Camaro, that piece of it’s actually essential. I believe that will be a fantastic components, and we’ve got the flexibility to try this.”
The components would come with the Camaro being “inexpensive and attainable” in accordance with earlier studies – with low-cost muscle being key.
That additionally makes an electrical successor to compete with the new-generation Dodge Charger – provided with each twin-turbo six-cylinder and EV powertrains within the US – even much less possible for now, too.
But studies in early 2025 recommended GM administration put paid to a successor, V8-powered or in any other case, because the enterprise case didn’t stack up.
Mr Reuss adopted his feedback by reiterating the sports activities automotive market within the US is shrinking – which makes a Camaro comeback much less possible.
GM would have taken notice of Mustang’s 44,003 gross sales within the US in 2024, which had been the worst within the nameplate’s 60-year historical past – and noticed it outsold by the Mustang Mach-E electrical SUV.
The Mustang misplaced its stranglehold as Australia’s best-selling sports activities automotive in 2024, too, with provide points seeing it demoted to 3rd behind the BMW 2-Sequence and Subaru BRZ – though it has clawed its method again to the highest in 2025.
The sixth-gen Camaro was offered as a rear-wheel drive coupe and convertible with a variety of turbocharged four-cylinder and naturally aspirated V6 and V8 petrol engines, with a alternative of computerized or handbook transmissions.
In Australia and New Zealand, GMSV (Normal Motors Specialty Autos) imported a small variety of V8 Camaros, however didn’t profit from a factory-backed right-hand drive manufacturing program like Mustang has.
This meant the Camaro was priced a lot larger than the Ford in Australia, which was a efficiency automotive discount when it arrived in native showrooms in 2015 at $59,990 earlier than on-road prices for a V8 handbook coupe.
A six-speed handbook V8 Camaro, transformed to right-hand drive, was priced from $85,990 earlier than on-road prices when it first arrived in Australia in 2018.
The Mustang’s value has since shot up, with the present V8 handbook coupe beginning at $83,990 after range-wide $5000 value rises from July 1, 2025.
Ford Australia pointed to the New Automobile Effectivity Customary (NVES) launched right here in 2025 as a think about upping the Mustang’s value.
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