The Chevrolet Camaro is an auto bogus by General Motors and Chevrolet beneath the Chevrolet brand, classified as a pony car and some versions additionally as a beef car. It went on auction on September 29, 1966, for the 1967 archetypal year and was advised as a aggressive archetypal to the Ford Mustang. The car aggregate its belvedere and above apparatus with the Pontiac Firebird, additionally alien for 1967.
Four audible ancestors of the Camaro were developed afore assembly concluded in 2002. The nameplate was active afresh on a abstraction car that acquired into the fifth-generation Camaro; assembly started on March 16, 2009.
The first-generation Camaro debuted in September 1966, for the 1967 archetypal year, up to 1969 on a fresh rear-wheel drive GM F-body belvedere and would be accessible as a 2-door, 2+2 seating, auto or convertible with a best of 250 cu in (4.1 L) inline-6 and 302 cu in (4.9 L), 307 cu in (5.0 L), 327 cu in (5.4 L), 350 cu in (5.7 L), or 396 cu in (6.5 L) V8 powerplants. Concerned with the delinquent success of the Ford Mustang, Chevrolet admiral accomplished that their bunched adventurous car, the Corvair, would not be able to accomplish the sales aggregate of the Mustang due to its rear-engine design, as able-bodied as crumbling sales, partly due to the bad publicity from Ralph Nader's book, Unsafe at Any Speed. Therefore, the Camaro was accustomed as accepting the aforementioned accepted rear-drive, front-engine agreement as Mustang and Chevy II Nova. In addition, the Camaro was advised to fit a array of ability plants in the agent bay. The first-generation Camaro would aftermost until the 1969 archetypal year and would eventually affect the architecture of the fresh awakening fifth-generation Camaro.
