The Chevrolet Camaro was introduced in 1966 as 1967 model by Chevy, perhaps in response to the unprecedented success of the Ford Mustang – and the rivalry has been on ever since. It survived four generations till production was finally halted in 2002. In 2009, the Camaro nameplate was revived over a concept car that finally turned into the fifth-generation Camaro. Now in its sixth generation, the Camaro has survived both as a muscle car and a pony car with ease, and though the Mustang never stopped production – as of 2017 both cars seem to be in a neck-to-neck sale figure race.

Chevrolet has been doing everything it can to make the Camaro great again, for models of this car were shown to be the irrepressible Bumblebee in the Transformers franchise. He first makes an appearance as the 1976 Camaro before turning into the fifth-generation concept for the 2007 movie, and then the Revenge of The Fallen and Dark of the Moon movies as well. In the fourth movie he’s a modified 1967 Camaro and in the fifth, he’s the sixth generation one. So GM showed off the Camaro in all the different ways they could, but since 2010, sales have not exceeded beyond 88,000 per year. It still remains an iconic car though, which is why modifications like these hurt Camaro fans and make hearts bleed everywhere!

16 The Silver Surfer’s Chrome Camaro

Okay, we do not know where to start with this car, so we’ll start with the elephant in the room. Yes, that is a chrome-wrapped Camaro – akin to mounting a diamond over a diamond aka too much bling.

Then come the 32-inch Forgiato wheels and that ridiculous sky-high suspension lift.

Apparently, the car is also fitted with too many speakers and amplifiers – which means this is the ride you’ll probably hear before you see – after which you’d want to shatter those eardrums and gouge out your eyes as well. This poor Camaro has been made too loud to both sound and sight, as well as taste!

15 The Mother Of All Cat-Camaros

So this one seriously freaks us out, even though most of us love cats. This could be a hidden assassination attempt too – get anyone to pop the hood of this car in the dead of the night on the middle of the road; its curtains for them! That is if the headlight of this strange cat, err car, didn’t unnerve them enough to run screaming for mommy. Why would you have death cat with LED lights for eyes stare down at you from the top of the hood? Or headlights that look more like Cheshire cat eyes like the cat from "Alice in Wonderland"? I mean YOLO sure, but then YODO too!

14 Upside Down Camaro

For those who truly want to vent and rage at something, here’s what some dude did to his Camaro. He modified it upside down and “raced” it in a parody of the LeMans races so dubbed the “20 Hours of LeMons”. The idea here is to race cars that cost less than $500. Basically this dude took the insides of a Ford Festiva and mounted an upside-down shell of a Camaro on top of it to make it look like he was driving the wrong side up. We are sure some of the racers raced after him just to give him a good noggin to the head.

13 Even A Camaro Can Feel Blue

Any car would feel blue if it was bedecked in bright, eye-hurting blue and made to sit on tires too large for its sleek frame. The car looks stupid, and we wonder what the owner had in mind when he so decimated the natural beauty of the Camaro Z1 and turned it into an ugly blue monster.

This Camaro is sure to be feeling very down in the dumps had it been as sentient as Bumblebee.

Not only are the rims ridiculous to look at, they are also too big to be put under a Camaro. These are the kind of tires that would look better on trucks, but there is no accounting for taste, is there?

12 A Bit Overboard

Now ideally, we do not see the need to turn a good-looking sedan with fairly decent engine specs into a racing beast. But then again, YOLO, right? So to promote the Chevy Camaro, a concept car was made with the animated movie Turbo was being launched – the movie is about a snail who gets jacked up on speed when it falls into a Camaro’s nitro tank. Chevy decided to make the car for real and beefed up a Camaro ZL1 into a 700-horsepower monster that sounds as mean as it looks. A front splitter with a devilish rear wing, a COPO hood, and a supercharged V8 engine lies under the hood, matched with 24-inch wheels!

11 Meet Two Face’s Ride To Match

We seem to be on a character-based roll here, for this is not two pictures of a Camaro melded together. It is one two-faced Camaro that Harvey Dent would probably steal if he saw it. The story behind this bipolar ride isn’t all villainous though – it was built by State Farm as a training tool for classic car insurance appraisers to show them firsthand the difference between a great restoration job and a half-baked one. So the driver’s side was restored to factory specs while the passenger side was done up shoddy. Training apart, State Farm parades this two-face car around for some gimmicky marketing as well.

10 Red Hot, Inside Out Camaro

So this one is the fifth generation Camaro that was introduced in 2009 as a 2010 model. Basically, this was the revival of the Camaro after an eight-year hiatus.

Production for the fourth generation finally ceased in 2002, mostly due to dismal sales figures in the years leading up to the break.

The 2010 model was received warmly, but somehow, sales haven’t really reached a peak. This Camaro here has been lit up from the inside out with far too many lights that we can count, or are needed. The Camaro is a car that will get plenty eyeballs on its own, why add to too much of flashiness to it?

9 A Camaro In Drag

For the 2013 Drag Week, someone decked up this Camaro with so much supercharge, it had no problem dragging the caravan behind. So what if it didn’t have a hood and basically deafened whole towns as it roared by? This 1969 SuperSport Camaro’s hood had to be ripped off to install a 10.0-litre Steve Morris big block engine with Brodix 14-degree heads, a Holley fuel-injection and two mongo turbos to top it all. So it sounded more like a jet deciding to cruise on the road instead of a car going by. All this sat atop 35-inch tires and with plenty other adjustments to the gears, this beauty could easily cross 200mph with a fuel efficiency of 12mpg.

8 Black Velvet

We don’t know about you, but the Black Beauty classic book left a mark on just about everyone who read it. And since the world has changed from horses into horsepower, today's Black Beauty has to be a car and not a racehorse. Enter the black velvet wrapped Camaro that belongs to rapper and musician Slim Thug – aka Stayve Jerome Thomas. We don’t know if this is velvet automotive paint or just a velvety vinyl wrap, but why would you do this to the sleek and glossy lines of a Camaro? The factory spec paint you chose is what the Camaro looks best in – the gleam works, the matte doesn’t.

7 Gold-Wrapped Vinyl Does Not Make A King

So, this monstrosity was done to a Camaro ZL1 by 813 Customs who literally had to tear the car down and rebuild it from scratch to hold in all that sound, all that power, and all that gold chrome.

This particular car irked Camaro fans so much that they spewed their disapproval all over the social media page of the custom maker, who ultimately had to respond in a bid to stop all the criticism.

One commenter dubbed the “King ZL1” as the end of the American muscle car and while he or she may be right, to each his own is a better tolerance policy.

6 Too Confusing

We are back to the we-don’t-get-it realm. What is going on with this poor Camaro? For one, far too many things. There is that Chrysler 300 mesh that has replaced the Camaro’s front grill for reasons unbeknownst to us. Then there is some weird crap going on with the doors – the one on the driver's side seem sedate and normal but there is a butterfly wing door on the passenger side. And what’s with the trunk flap – why does it open in so strange an angle. What do you have to put in there? Let’s not even get us started with the body kit and the paint and those brash interiors to match. The last straw has to be the chrome accents here, there and everywhere. Too much for one car to handle!

5 The Rainbow-Coloured Chrome Camaro

What happens when you decide on getting a chrome wrap for the Camaro, but can’t quite figure out which metallic infringement to choose? If at the same time you happen to spot a rainbow in the sky, you just got your pot of the gold in the form of one very bright (but bad) idea. So this is what you do to your Camaro – though you really, really shouldn’t. The Camaro is a beautiful car in its own right, wrapping it up in reflective chrome does not make it better looking – and anointing it with Forgiato tires does not help either.

4 When The Camaro Tries To Be A Batmobile

So yes, you can put 22-inch wheels on just about anything, but do you have to? The Camaro here looks like the early 70s one but has been “enhanced” with one terrible body kit. It just looked uselessly loaded and beefed up – with no sense of styling whatsoever.

Apparently, the makers just wanted this car to look like one big shadow.

It has also been lowered to the ground so unless you are driving this on roads as smooth as silk, it ain’t going to take you far or fast anywhere. Senseless rookie styling makes it look more like a vacuum cleaner than a car – an utter waste of the Camaro.

3 The Car Superman Will Never Ride

Sometime back, when the Batman Vs. Superman movie was being made – there were reports that GM had trademarked the names “Krypton” and Camaro “Krypton”. It sounded like the car Batman would use to trap Superman in to drain him of all his powers.

The movie came and went and nothing cool happened other than seeing Henry Cavill in action.

Chevy still held on to the name and made a concept car based on the luminescent qualities of the noble gas (as in unreactive, not highly born!) krypton – the kind that is used in fluorescent lights. Without Superman though, this one is just another green-dunked car and not very impressive at that.

2 The 1966 Chevy Camaro SuperSport

Fairly cool, this 66 Chevy Camaro SS used to come in stripes of all kind, and while they seemed like a common sight then – we are slightly bemused at the “racing stripes” this particular car seems to possess. Honestly, this Camaro looks like a blue cat who just lapped up a bowl of cream but lacks any manners to wipe its mouth off. We don’t really get that front bumper flap either though we love those simple rims adorned with Goodrich tires. With a 4.9-litre V8 engine, this car could pull its weight well and look good on the roads too. Except for that ridiculous paint job.

1 The One Camaro We Never Got

So this is not a modded Camaro – it is a 1979 Z28 model languishing at a lot somewhere with plenty of dings, dents, nicks and scrapes to show the rough life it had. This was the year with the highest Camaro sales ever, topping 280,000 plus. The 1973 oil crisis had passed and the earlier ponies were turning back to their original muscle sizes, so there was a body size change in the Camaro as well – a jump from the 1976 model to 1978. In 1979, they also brought out the Berlinetta luxury model which may have sold like hot cakes then but does not have any classic value now. The 66 Impala sells for nearly 10 times the price than does a 1979 Z28 Camaro.

Sources: AutoEvolution.com, DUBMagazine.com, Motor1.com