Chevrolet Is Rushing Another Camaro Facelift After Sales Plunge
Chevrolet is fast-tracking another Camaro facelift in an attempt to reverse a rapid decline in both sales and forecourt interest.
The sixth-generation pony car was given a significant facelift for the 2019 model year, but since its reveal the online response has been overwhelmingly negative. It seems that the hate has spread to buyers of the once-popular icon, too, and sales are said to be on a rapid slide.
Above is the original 2019 facelift on a Camaro SS, featuring the gaping black grille and black cross-member holding a ‘floating’ bow-tie, dubbed a flowtie. At the top of this page the same picture has been altered (by Chevrolet) to show how the “concept” face will look on the car that’s due to be shown off at SEMA, starting 30 October.
The bow-tie has been returned to the upper grille and the cross-member has been painted body colour to create a much smaller and neater two-part grille look. Rumour suggests that this new face will be grafted onto the production SS as soon as physically possible. Sales results will then be gauged to see if it works, at which point it could reach the rest of the Camaro range.
Shock Yellow is a new colour to the range. It, too, will debut at SEMA and we can give that a hearty thumbs-up for bravery. It looks superb over the Camaro’s beefy lines, especially with the black bonnet elements, black wheels and black boot lip spoiler.
The 2019 Camaro SS has the option of GM’s new 10-speed automatic transmission, while the 2.0-litre turbo version can be specified with the 1LE track package.
Source: GM Authority
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If they really decide to produce the Camaro like this, then I have a new favourite muscle car !!!
The title says Chevrolet is rushing another facelift but in the article there isn’t a single source to support that claim. Fake news!
Are you blind?
There’s LITERALLY a source link showing which leads to the original article!
You’re fake news boi
This is why you always focus group designs like this before they even make it to a full concept stage. This is a real amateur mistake, too bad it was made from an automotive giant that is over one hundred years old.
All they had to do was move the bow tie back up, the giant grill wasn’t as bad as the pimple on the nose bow tie
I have been very disappointed with Chevrolet ever since they came out with their new Camaro. They were the last to come out with the throwback look and it was the worst looking of the 3 major brands. That being said all I have ever owned have been Chevrolet products so you can imagine my disappointment. They looked nothing like the 1969 Camaro they were supposed too unlike the other two brands did.
I truly don’t care about the front but the back, I mean, I hope they never bring back the back end of the pic, made it look ‘cheap’
I honestly thought I would adjust to the looks of the 2018 facelift Camaro like I did with the Mustang, but it just didn’t happen. But it looks kinda alright with some blacked out parts (that bit of metal in the middle of the front of the car specifically)
We laugh, but I bet an “original” early 2019 facelift will sell at Barrett Jackson for like $500k in 30 years, and there will be tons of people retrofitting the “older” bumpers to their late 2019s and up because it’s cool.
This looks god awful in my opinion. It’s like it’s both grossed out by its own color and giving a creepy smile at the same time.
“holding a ‘floating’ bow-tie, dubbed a flowtie”
not true. It is called a flowtie because it is hollow and lets air flow through
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