Back in 1987, I was very happy with my 1980 Z28 – which had less than half the horsepower of the 2012 Camaro SS I just spent a week with. Ye gods, the base 2012 V-6 Camaro puts out 133 more horsepower than my old 350 V-8 Z28. And despite having twice the power...
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The first factory-built Camaro convertible in two – no, three – generations is finally here and just in time to catch up with the Mustang convertible and put some distance between itself and the still-not-here-yet Dodge Challenger convertible. WHAT IT IS The convertible version of Chevy’s reincarnated muscle car. Prices begin at $29,275 for...
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I’m not seeing many new Camaros – so I thought I’d check into the numbers. It does not look good. Despite the hype, GM only sold 81,299 Camaros last year, the first full production year. For some perspective, that’s about what Camaro (and its now-defunct sister car, the Pontiac Firebird) sales were back in...
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The smart athlete retires gracefully, at his peak – before he starts to slip and give off that “has-been” stink. To their credit, that’s what Chevrolet managers did when they discontinued the Z28 version of the popular Camaro sport coupe after the 1974 model year. True high-performance engines such as the 1970–1971 Z28’s solid...
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Everyone knows Camaro. This iconic muscle car has roots that go back more than 40 years, to 1967, when the first one appeared as GM’s answer to the Ford Mustang. Like Mustang, it survived the early ’70s die-off, when almost every other muscle car went extinct, prospered through the Disco Days of the mid-late...
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