Looks as if the Camaro is facing the hard times by killing off it's performance model the Z28 and delaying the convertible......And we Challenger owners throught it was bad because we didn't get the 6.4 Hemi or a convertible.....at least we have both the RT and SRT models!


From the Jalopnik Site we have the following report:

"We've reported on the shelving of the Camaro convertible, but news has emerged the high-horsepower Camaro Z28 variant has been outright killed by the Carpocalypse and GM belt-tightening.

Paul Eisenstein at The Detroit Bureau is reporting GM is shelving plans for a 570 HP Camaro Z28. The reason? It would be prohibitively expensive for GM at this time. With a program price around $50 million, the Z28 got the axe in favor of other efforts.

The bad news continues as the convertible, which was previously delayed a year, faces the collapse of the German supplier providing its convertible top. The unnamed source within GM went on to note, despite the bad news, there's still a desire by the program groups to build both of these cars; but it'll take significant engineering finagling to bring them to market for the right price". [The Detroit Bureau via Autoblog]