The Chevrolet Camaro is one of the representatives of the American muscle sports car, and we are more accustomed to calling it "Bumblebee".
Many people may not know what the original name of this car is, but when they see it, they will shout: "Ah, it's Bumblebee!" "So, camaro has such a high profile, nine times out of ten it is the credit of "Transformers", bumblebee even has the same name independent series of movies.
However, such an Internet celebrity IP can not avoid the fate of being terminated.
There is a variety of news at present, GM plans to extend the life cycle of the current camaro to 2024 or 2026, and there is also a saying that it will be 2023, and then take over the position of the camaro with a pure electric four-door sedan.
Maybe it's not the end, maybe like the Ford Mustang mustang mach-e, or called a Mustang, but it becomes an SUV.
You know, camaro has only one body form of a two-door sports car since its birth, and when the iconic large-displacement engine of american sports cars is no longer there, camaro is already a soulless name.
As for the reason for the suspension of production, it is a cliché: transformation of new energy + sluggish sales.
GM's transition to electrification is a big premise, and covid-19 and chip shortages have made Camaro's sales even worse, and Chevrolet has earlier canceled plans to launch a high-performance z/28 model based on the sixth-generation camaro.
Camaro sales peaked in 2011, with more than 88,000 units sold in the U.S. market.
The release of Transformers 3: Dark In the Moon that year was also the most popular time for the film. But as Transformers got worse and worse, the bonus to camaro seemed to have weakened a lot, and sales began to decline from 2015 to less than 30,000 last year.
The success of the Ford Mustang proves that there is a market for sports cars, and Chevrolet also launched the first generation of camaro in 1966, the same front-facing rear-drive layout is in direct opposition to the Mustang, with a total of coupe and convertible two body forms and continues to this day, from the first generation camaro there is a z/28 high-performance version.
In Transformers 1, sam's second-generation Camaro, which Sam scooped up from the used car market next to Porsche, is bumblebee's first appearance.
Soon, Bumblebee was upgraded to the fifth generation of camaro, which can also be said to be the most classic generation. Transformers 1 was released in 2007, but the fifth-generation camaro didn't hit the market until 2010, so even by the time of Transformers 2 in 2009, camaro was strictly a concept car, but with a big ad in advance.
After the listing of this generation of camaro, sales were very hot, and Chevrolet also imported it into the country for sale, and almost all the yellow car paint + black bumblebee color matching seen on the road wast.
Bumblebee will be a large displacement muscle car attributes show vividly, the entry of the 3.6 liter v6 not to mention, zl1 version equipped with 6.2 liters v8 supercharged engine, the maximum output of 580hp; z/28 version is equipped with c6 z06 corvette the same 7.0 liter ls7 v8 engine, although the output is only 505hp, but the cool is finished.
In the 2014 release of "Transformers 4", bumblebee once again gained a new skin, the new generation of camaro (that is, the current model) was once again exposed as a concept car, and the first generation of camaro also appeared in the play.
The sixth generation of camaro was officially unveiled in 2015, built on the alpha platform of the GM Group, and Cadillac ATS is its brother.
Adding a more entry-level 2.0t power to the 3.6-liter V6 engine is also the first time that the camaro has been turbocharged, and the current highest-performance ZL1 model is equipped with a 6.2-liter supercharged V8 engine, with a maximum output of 650hp.
It is a pity that the "Transformers" that can most support camaro's influence collapse from the fourth part, the appearance of bumblebee does not have the shock of the year, coupled with the preferences of local consumers gradually turned to SUVs, not only camaro sports cars, the entire North American car market is shrinking sharply, and then combined with the recent year' GM determination to transform, the epidemic hit forced the car manufacturers to cut down redundant models and other factors, there will be a classic American sports car and we bid farewell.