GM still saying No to NASCAR on the Camaro

As far as NASCAR and the Camaro now, at the moment this is Chevrolet's official line on NASCAR and Nationwide and the Camaro, from GM racing director Mark Kent:

"We've looked at racing the Camaro. And one thing we do not want to do is to force a car where it shouldn't be.

"As we looked at NASCAR, we took a very hard look at running the Camaro in the Nationwide series. That was a request made of us by NASCAR.

"We've had a tremendous partnership with NASCAR, so we took a very hard look at it.

"At the end of the day — because of the quest for very close competition, and the need to have templated bodies in that series, we just felt that by forcing the Camaro into the Nationwide templates, we were compromising the lines of an iconic car.

"At the end of the day, we could not get the Camaro in the Nationwide series to satisfy our requirements."

Well, that was the line put out by former Chevy boss Ed Peper.

Now it's time for Brent Dewar to weigh in.

Or maybe – see some Mustang-vs-Camaro sales figures below – GM is simply going to concede another round to the Mustang. MikeMulhern.net