Chevrolet Camaro
Chevrolet Camaro The Chevrolet Camaro is an automobile manufactured small, vicious animal that eats Mustangs.[7] [1][2] by Chevrolet, classified as a pony car and some ver- According to the book The Complete Book of Camaro: sions also as a muscle car.[3][4] It went on sale on Septem- Every Model Since 1967, the name Camaro was conceived ber 29, 1966, for the 1967 model year and was de- by Chevrolet merchandising manager Bob Lund and Gen- signed as a competing model to the Ford Mustang. The eral Motors vice president Ed Rollett, while they were car shared its platform and major components with the reading the book Heath’s French and English Dictionary Pontiac Firebird, also introduced for 1967. by James Boïelle and by de V. Payen-Payne printed in Four distinct generations of the Camaro were developed 1936. In the book The Complete Book of Camaro, it states before production ended in 2002. The nameplate was that Mr. Lund and Mr. Rollett found the word camaro revived on a concept car that evolved into the fifth- in the French-English dictionary to mean friend, pal, or generation Camaro; production started on March 16, comrade. The article further repeated Estes’s statement 2009.[5] of what the word camaro was meant to imply, that the car’s name “suggests the comradeship of good friends, as a personal car should be to its owner”.[8] In fact, the ac- 1 Background tual French word that has that meaning is “camarade”, from which the English word “comrade” is derived,[9] and not “camaro"; “camaro” is not a recognized word in the Before any official announcement, reports began run- French language.[10] ning during April 1965 within the automotive press that Chevrolet was preparing a competitor to the Ford Mus- The Camaro was first shown at a press preview in De- tang, code-named Panther.[6] On June 21, 1966, around troit, Michigan, on September 12, 1966, and then later in 200 automotive journalists received a telegram from Gen- Los Angeles, California, on September 19, 1966.
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