Chevy’s next generation Camaro is going to shrink in size from its current behemoth underpinnings and share a new global Alpha platform with the third-generation Cadillac CTS and the all-new ATS. With the next Camaro due out in 2015, the CTS is destined to bow in 2013 as a 2014 model, while the 3-Series fighting ATS is scheduled to arrive just afterwards.
The news comes from a report by Motor Trend after a presentation by consultancy firm Grant Thornton LLP at the Automotive Press Association on Thursday.
Other details revealed include plans to discontinue the CTS Coupe and SportWagon, likely because both a coupe, convertible and wagon version of the ATS are in the works. The CTS will then grow slightly (by roughly 6-inches) to be more in line with the 5 Series and E-Class.
To make this plan cost effective its likely that the new Alpha platform will use different amounts of aluminum and steel depending on whether it is being used for a Cadillac or a Chevy, with the Caddy getting a higher percentage of lighter, but more expensive, aluminum.
In addition to this new MT also suggests, the 2015 Camaro SS is likely to get a supercharged or turbocharged V6, rather than a V8.
[Source: Motor Trend]
oh Lord, here we go again, more baseless speculation from motortrend… while this guess is as good as any other, one thing is for sure. there will NEVER be a v6 only performance version fo the Camaro in the near future. especially with the current v8 version of the Camaro easily out selling the v6 version 3 to 1. if not more. back in the day when Pony cars where selling in the 3-4 hundred thousand range economicla engines may have nmattered for the bottom line, because ya know, posers wanna look fast too. but now the only people intersested in such a car have V8 and muscle as their primary motives. and that means a V8 will ALWAYS be the top motor in a Camaro or Mustang.
hey, come to think of it, Ford and Pontiac both had forced induction engines as their model toppers in the 80s (ford turbo 4 svt rustang, and pontiac turbo trans am 3.8 v6) BOTH made MORE pwr than their v8 contemporaries and still didn’t sell….hmmmmmm
February 6th, 2010 at 1:33 am