Chevrolet Camaro

The Camaro is a sports coupe marketed by Chevrolet since 1967. It was created to compete with the Ford Mustang. Early models came in Super Sport, Rally Sport, and Z2/X editions. Super Sport, or SS, was a performance model applied to many Chevys. The Camaro competed in the Sports Car Club of America's Trans-American Sedan Championship. It also competed in the International Motorsports Association's Grand Touring Championship, particularly the IMSA GTO high-performance category. Pontiac introduced the Firebird as its version of the Camaro a few years later. Both were marketed until 2002. The Camaro was reintroduced several years later, but the Pontiac brand was discontinued. The Camaro has been used in the Pirelli World Challenge, The Grand American Road Racing Association's Rolex Sports Car Series, The Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, and NASCAR support series. In the live action Transformers films, Bumblebee transforms first into a third-generation Camaro and then into a revival model version. This was met with criticism as he was a Volkswagen Beetle in the original series. The third generation Camaro saw a downgrade in terms of performance due to the Oil Crisis of 1973. The fourth generation introduced the IROC-Z edition, after the International Race of Champions. The Camaro is popular in drag racing. The RS edition was noted for having special headlights. The fourth generation introduced recessed headlights, which would be dropped in the sixth generation. The revival model was designed after the first generation, which led a Cont'l Challenge team to use Trans Am tribute livery for one year.