All-new Alpha platform
Generation 6 · Alpha · 2016–2024
Sixth Generation
The one that nailed it — and the one that said goodbye.
An all-new, lighter Alpha-platform car (shared with the Cadillac ATS/CTS): the first turbo-four Camaro since the Iron Duke, and the most powerful Camaro SS ever built at launch (455 hp). The ZL1 topped out at a supercharged 650 hp and out-lapped the Corvette ZR1's old benchmark at the Nürburgring.
Production ended in January 2024. The send-off “Collector's Edition” deliberately referenced the car's own 1966 code name, “Panther.” No gas successor was announced.
Highlights
- 2016 turbo-four returns; 455 hp SS — most powerful SS ever at launch
- 2017 ZL1 (650 hp) and ZL1 1LE Nürburgring run
- 2019 facelift and Turbo 1LE
- 2020–22 LT1 introduction and a narrowing 1LE range
- 2024 discontinuation — last car built Dec 14, 2023
Model years
ZL1 arrives — and out-laps the Corvette
The 650 hp supercharged ZL1 lands, and the ZL1 1LE posts GM's fastest-ever official production lap at the Nürburgring.
ZL1 1LE raises the track ceiling
ZL1 1LE brings Multimatic dampers, extreme aero, and 650 horsepower; the production-car facelift comes in 2019.
The controversial facelift — and Turbo 1LE
A polarizing new face, and the 1LE track package reaches the four-cylinder for the first time.
A cheaper V8, and a COVID-hit year
The new LT1 trim puts the SS's V8 in a cheaper body — as the pandemic cuts sales roughly in half.
Goodbye — with a nod to “Panther”
Production ends; the Collector's Edition references the car's own 1966 code name.
Every produced model year in this generation has its own evidence-led record.