A special media site — www. The Camaro 50th Anniversary Celebration kicks off Aug. Chevrolet will host Camaro owners and enthusiasts throughout the day, with a car show, heritage display and discussions with Camaro team members, including Chief Engineer Al Oppenheiser. There will also be a Camaro-only parking area for up to cars, a tent offering unique Camaro 50th merchandise and on-site food vendors.
Tours of the plant begin at 7 a. Reservations are not required for the tours, but registration is required on site. Additional information and directions to the plant are available at www. At the same time it would have to be tractable on the highway and it would have to be a credit to its publisher. Mostly it had to represent everything we thought was right about the automobile in an atmosphere of increasing criticism of anything with four wheels—especially four fat wheels.
Bigger than before and lacking a convertible variant, the new Camaro was nonetheless similarly engineered to the first-generation car, with a front subframe and a unibody rear structure. It's more tolerant to driving techniques now, more mature in its behavior. The LT-1 may have sacrificed some of the DZ's high-revving charisma, but it was a much friendlier everyday driving companion.
The high-back seats indicate that the pictured car is a model—when a switch to SAE "net" power-rating standards dropped the nominal output of the LT-1 to horsepower.
The second-generation Camaro carried on visually almost unchanged through And yes, the styling was cribbed from Ferrari. The big-block V-8s fell off the menu for New federal bumper regulations meant the nose and tail of the Camaro had to be redesigned for Considering how massive those aluminum bumpers were, the car survived their addition admirably. The V-8 under the hood was rated at only horsepower. And by , it was! This was the first year for catalytic converters, and the output of Camaro engines skidded downward.
In '75 the Rally Sport option became a paint-and-tape package. Flat-black paint in the s was a challenge to protect. Painted bumpers were, um, well, er. Little changed with the '76 model. Midway through the model year, the Z28 returned shorn of its mid-name slash. Now emphasizing handling, it rode on big, 15x7-inch wheels, and its small-block was rated at a towering horsepower.
In , horses was huge. Despite this lack of excitement, Chevy sold almost , '77 Camaros—that was almost three times the sales of its younger, smaller, sport-coupe brother, the Monza. The big change for '78 was new soft-plastic bumper covers. Also, for the first time, a translucent T-top roof option was also added. Good-looking whitewall tires, too.
The last of the second-generation Camaros were built as models. That year model run is the longest for a Camaro generation. Truly all new, the Camaro used a full unitized structure, a new coil-spring rear suspension, and struts in the front. And for the first time, the Camaro was a hatchback.
But while the new Camaro was modern and gorgeous in that flat-plane s way, it was seriously underpowered. Base Sport Coupes were equipped with the heinous 2. A hp, 2. But at least that engine could be had with a four-speed manual transmission. Opting for the hp Cross-Fire-injected version of that engine meant going with a three-speed automatic. If you'd be so kind as to allow our site, we promise to keep bringing you great content. Thanks for that. And thanks for reading Autoblog.
Jeremy Korzeniewski. Offered on SS coupes with manual transmissions, the 1LE package features unique gearing, suspension tuning, and tires, the Camaro 1LE is capable of more than 1 g of lateral acceleration, and lapping the Virginia International Raceway's Grand Course in under three minutes.
The current Camaro has been assembled in Oshawa , Ontario, Canada, since its introduction in The automaker cites "lower capital investment and improved production efficiencies" as key reasons for the move — indeed, the Camaro is the only rear-wheel-drive vehicle made in Oshawa; the Buick Regal and Cadillac XTS are currently manufactured there, and the upcoming Chevrolet Impala will join the front-wheel-drive group in The Canadian Auto Workers Union is, as expected, none too pleased by the "callous and poorly thought-out" announcement, "reacting in anger and frustration" according to a statement.
CAW National President Ken Lewenza added, " General Motors has once again shown a complete and utter disregard for its workers and also Canadians in general, whose tax dollars kept the company out of bankruptcy. Show full PR text. This decision is based on a comprehensive business case. Lower capital investment and improved production efficiencies were key factors in the business case. As a result, GM will continue to deliver top-quality vehicles as efficiently as possible.
GM will continue to meet the production targets agreed to with the Canadian and Ontario governments during the restructuring. Production of the current generation Chevrolet Camaro will continue on the flexible manufacturing line at Oshawa Assembly until the end of the current product lifecycle. In addition, GM recently announced it will add a third shift to support the launch of the new Impala there.
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