Chevrolet Camaro Production Cars Ready to Rescue GM

Chevrolet Camaro

The wait is almost over

By Michael Gauthier
March 9, 2009 1:00 PM
Filed Under: American, Chevrolet, Production

Although the Camaro has been floating around in GM's future product lineup for what seems like an eternity, these new pictures showing a fresh batch of 2010 Camaros clearly indicates that the wait is almost over.

The pictures were taken near GM's Oshawa, Ontario plant and they put to rest suggestions that Chevrolet has been forced to delay production of the new model until March 16th. Originally scheduled to go on sale in spring, the start in production could mean that the first Camaro deliveries might occur as soon as the first quarter of this year or shortly thereafter.

The base Camaro starts at $22,995 (USD) and comes equipped with a 3.6-liter V6 engine that produces 300 horsepower (224 kW) and 273 lb-ft (370 Nm) of torque which allows it to return 27 mpg highway. The top of the line Camaro SS with a manual transmission features a 6.2-liter LS3 V8 engine that cranks out 422 horsepower (315 kW) and 408 lb.-ft. of torque (553 Nm).

 

Source: camaro5

Comments

Kepe
March 9, 2009 2:03 PM
Even if they sold 100,000 of these babies a year, that would still only make 3bn dollars in annual sales and a lot less in actual profits, assuming that an average Camaro costs 30,000 dollars. GM made a 31bn dollar loss last year. These aren't going to help that much.


Edited by user on March 9, 2009 at 2:10 PM
Renegade
March 9, 2009 3:42 PM
It's a good start to revitalization, once the Volt/Cruze/Spark will be on the market I'm sure Chevy will make more money and think how well Buick sales in China(not to heat by the world crisis, maybe they should make a Buick hybrid on the Volt platform and sell it in China)

brocky
March 10, 2009 11:23 AM
GM is a huge population. Camaros are just a small sample. The Camaros would boost up Chevy's image as the 350z's and the G35's did for Nissan/Infiniti. GM just needs people to start noticing their vehicles and make people turn their heads in their direction. Too bad Chevy and Cadillac are the only two brands that are respectable out of the GM lineup.

paulbe
March 9, 2009 2:17 PM
Pictures like this are shaping up to become future sad reminders of what may have been.

jdmgtr
March 9, 2009 3:05 PM
Glad to see such a nice collection of colors. Looks like my selection of Basic Lego.

joshg_5
March 9, 2009 3:12 PM
no kidding! lame'o color options...

Bristol411S3
March 9, 2009 3:49 PM
Yep, if GM are relying on a rehash of a 40 year old muscle car to pull them through the current crisis, we have all the evidence we need of how they got into it in the first place.

Joe_Limon
March 9, 2009 5:34 PM
It's ignorant comments like this that show how arrogant European's are. Or I am wrong and bristol isn't... british? What about the malibu, volt, cts, cobalt, vette....... it's an entire lineup not just the Camaro... FFS

sub39h
March 9, 2009 7:19 PM
limon you make NO sense. read the title of the story. WCF is implying that the Camaro is here to save GM, and GM does seem to be relying on it quite heavily. it's not the wisest of business strategies

mustang5507
March 9, 2009 8:07 PM
You people don't seem to understand American sales strategy. The camaro lures the customer into the showroom, if they decide they don't want it, the salesperson will try and put them into something else. At the same time, they're hoping the Camaro does for Chevy what the Mustang has been doing for Ford. 2009 will be the first year since the mid 80's that the Mustang didn't sell over 100k units. And it's NOT because it's a bad car.

In case you people haven't been keeping up with regular news as well, folks just don't have money (or jobs to make money) to buy new cars. It's unbelievable how stupid you people can be sometimes.

danteoh
March 9, 2009 5:38 PM
Are they not already on sale? I live in London, On, and yesterday alone I saw a yellow and a red one on the 401...

jandrews90
March 9, 2009 7:52 PM
No, I live just near oshawa and people have been seeing them around and I was talking to one guy who had one, he said he works at the GM headquarters in Oshawa and some of the higher employees have been able to take them out for a couple days. Why some have been showing up in London i couldn't say...

eas722
March 9, 2009 6:04 PM
That's a sh*t load of Camaros.

Iconic
March 9, 2009 6:20 PM
It's a fake. GM photoshopped the pic to convince Obama to give them another gabajillion dollars.

scratchy996
March 9, 2009 8:02 PM
this is the only American car i like, it looks cute, i wonder how much the V6 will cost in Europe.

coopergt
March 9, 2009 10:08 PM
the picture should have been red white and blue and make it very patriotic!

coopergt
March 9, 2009 10:10 PM
most gm cars are still less than great. ok the malibu and pontiac G8 are great and a few others are good, but most still fall into the junk pile and there are way way too many of them.

mroctober
March 9, 2009 11:16 PM
hope I can grow a mullet in time to get into one of these...

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