The Chevrolet Camaro, the dream automotive of many teenage Americans for many years, goes out of production.
General Motors, which sells beefy muscle cars, said on Wednesday it might they will stop producing the current generation early next 12 months.
The longer term of the automotive that races on NASCAR and other tracks is a bit murky.
GM says the next generation could also be in the works.
“While we are usually not announcing a direct successor today, rest assured that this isn’t the end of the Camaro story,” said Scott Bell, vp of Chevrolet, in an announcement Wednesday.
The present sixth-generation Camaro, unveiled in 2016, is doing well on the racetrack, but sales have been declining lately.
When the current generation Camaro got here out in 2016, Chevrolet sold 72,705 units.
But by the end of 2021, that number had dropped by almost 70% to 21,893.
It rebounded somewhat last 12 months to 24,652.
GM said the last 2024 model 12 months cars will roll off the assembly line in Lansing, Michigan in January.
Spokesman Trevor Thompkins said he couldn’t say anything more about the future Camaro.
“We’re not saying anything specific at the moment,” he said.
He said the company has an agreement with motor racing sanctioning bodies that the sixth-generation automotive may proceed racing.
He said GM would have parts available and the Camaro body would remain on the racetrack.
NASCAR said that because the Generation 6 Camaro was in production when GM originally received its racing permit, it remains to be eligible to race in the NASCAR Cup and NASCAR Xfinity Series races.
GM will offer the 2024 Camaro RS and SS Collector’s Edition bundle in North America and a limited number of high-performance Camaro ZL-1s.
The collector’s edition cars will have ties to the first-generation Sixties Camaro and its GM codename “Panther”, the company said without giving details.