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The introduction of the Chevrolet Camaro and 2011 Camaro Convertible 2010 rekindled a war that has defined the volcanic landscape of the American automobile for a large part of last century. For over forty years of Camaro and Mustang have been battling it out for first place in the heart of America. The Mustang came first, staking the pony car up in 1964 and remained the only of its kind in the past two and a half years it took General Motors to respond. Since that time, Camaro and Mustang competed in showrooms, at stoplights, on the covers of magazines and most spectacular circuits in the country. Each has a large following passionate and loyal. The story of how the battle lines came to learn, however, is almost as fascinating as the cars themselves.

Although Lee Iacocca is universally recognized as the father of the Mustang, Chevrolet Camaro descent is much more difficult to define. Credit could legitimately be given to Alfred P. Sloan. President and finally president of the board of directors of GM in 1937, Sloan was a pioneer of automotive visionary who created the concept of annual styling changes and the lowest was at a higher price structure for each brand of GM, which at the time included Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac. The idea was to provide a low entry price and keep car buyers back to GM over time they became rich.

In early 1950 Sloan concepts have been so successful, General Motors has surpassed Ford Motor Company as the largest car company in the United States holds more than 60 percent of the market and with Chevrolet Motor Division segments dominated volume highest.

Introduced in 1958, Chevrolet Impala full-size flagship sold out both Ford Galaxie 500 Plymouth Fury by wide margins and in the mid-1960s. To keep the brand fresh and welcoming, Euro-style sedan rear-engine Corvair family was introduced in 1960, followed by a sports model Monza in 1963. The compact Chevy II was launched in 1962 and the size Chevelle was introduced in 1964, the face-off against the highly successful Ford Falcon Fairlane and tandem.

In the mid-1960s, sales and minds to the Chevrolet Motor Division of GM reached a record of all time. Combined annual car and truck deliveries were approaching 2.8 million units. On NBC, Dinah Shore closed each episode of the weekly one-hour Dinah Shore Chevy Show with a kiss and a warm reminder of Music "show France is in your Chevrolet." And at the GM Technical Center in Warren, Michigan opened by President Eisenhower in May 1956, engineers and designers are already working on a new 1968 Chevy II Nova Super / model with dimensions and proportions remarkably similar to the Ford Mustang.

It is well known that GM has approved production of what would become the Camaro until six months after the Mustang was released. It is also a fact that in 1962, when the Chevrolet design chief Irvin W. Rybicki and GM design boss Bill Mitchell approached Chevrolet general manager Semon "Bunkie" Knudsen with the idea of staff, four seat sports car, Knudsen quickly and confidently vetoed the idea. He was sure that existing models of Chevrolet Corvair in particular, would be more than a match for any new small car from Ford. Knudsen is, indeed, later to be named president of Ford Motor Company in February 1968, temporarily stall the ambition of a President and Vice-up-and-coming named Lee Iacocca.

However, when Mustangs shocked the automotive world with record sales of 26,000 units its first day and 100,000 in the first four months, Knudsen knew he had erred. Chevy quickly s.