Explore Las Vegas, the most populous city in the U.S.state of Nevada, an internationally renowned resort city for gambling, shopping and entertainment, in style. The valley is named Las Vegas, Spanish for "The Meadows" and has a lot to offer. You can make your Las Vegas experience most unique by driving around the Las Vegas Strip in an exotic sports car. You can rent a Chevrolet Camaro from one of the classic car rental companies in Las Vegas!
The Chevrolet Camaro is a collector's dream and one of the most admired sport coupes of all time. The Chevrolet Camaro is a pony car manufactured by the Chevrolet division of General Motors. It went on sale on September 29, 1966 for the 1969 model year and was designed as a competing model to the Ford Mustang. The car shared the platform and major components with the Pontiac Firebird, also introduced for 1967. Four distinct generations of the car were produced before production ended in 2002. A new fifth-generation Camaro will roll off assembly lines in spring of 2009.
Camaros were one of the prominent vehicles in the Trans-Am Series, having won the title in 1968 and 1969 (piloted by Mark Donahue) and were in use in the league until the late 1990's. The Camaro was used in the International Race of Champions from 1975 to 1989. Third and Fourth generation Camaros are also currently raced in the SCCA American Sedan series and other SCCA classes. It is also one of the most popular cars in NHRA Sportsman Drag Racing.
General Motors abandoned the pony car segment in 2002 after sales of its pony cars dried up. The Mustang was the last survivor of the pony cars. At that time, SUVs and Trucks were the best sellers and sports car sales were in decline. General Motors had further hurt sales by pricing these cars out of the price range of its target market. The car had grown from an affordable performance car aimed at the youth market to a bloated and expensive car that was unattainable by those same youth.
Forty years after the classic 1969 Camaro was introduced, Chevy has decided to reintroduce the model to compete with the highly successful retro Ford Mustang. Ford proved that there was still a large market for pony cars and General Motors wants a piece of the action.
As stated earlier, the new Camaro was heavily influenced by the '69 version and the designers got it right. The car looks aggressive and bold all at the same time. Performance should be more than adequate with the base model receiving a 250 horse power V-6 and the performance models receiving up to 400 horsepower from the small block V-8. The only weakness of the new car is the interior. It resembles the '69 Camaro too closely and looks a bit dated. The good news is the Chevy has indicated that the interior is one of the focal points with the transition from concept car to production car. General Motors has also indicated that the base price for the standard 2009 Camaro should be around $25,000. The performance models should range between $28,000 and $40,000. This is a good call as anything more would cause Chevy to lose sales to Ford.
