In the second quarter, sales of the Camaro, Chevrolet’s last stick-shift V8 toy car, increased by 110.3% compared to the previous year’s. Between April and June 2022, just 4,545 two-door deliveries were done—this year, 9,557 of them, a rise of more than 5,000. Late in March, it was announced that the sixth-generation Camaro would no longer be made. This could be why prices of the car have gone up recently. General Motors will keep making Camaros until January 2024. This gives us another chance to see if the coupe’s planned end of production is helping sales. Also, higher Camaro sales don’t happen every three months. So far this year, earnings are 54% higher than in 2022. Last year at this time, Chevrolet had already sold 11,255 cars. More than 6,000 units have been added; by 2023, there will be 17,337 units. Even so, sales of the Camaro have been going down for a while because it competes with cars like the Ford Mustang and the Dodge Challenger, which is also being phased out, at least in its current form. The Mustang, on the other hand, just got a seventh-generation makeover, even though the old sixth-generation model was almost the same. Chevy made a special Collector’s Edition car to mark the end of production. It just has a few new paint colors and option choices. In honor of the NASCAR ZL1 Camaro’s win at Le Mans, there is also a Garage56 version. These special editions don’t change how the car works in any of its trim levels. There have been rumors that a version of the car with a 5.5-liter LT6 engine will come out before production stops in January, but this has yet to be proven. It is said that this car was planned but never built, but this has yet to be confirmed. Most likely, the car won’t die violently, and the one that comes after it won’t be the same.
