Mustang Vs. Camaro

Paige Walters

English Composition 1113

Instructor Coney

20 November 2014

Mustang vs. Camaro

Forty years ago, Parnell Jones and Mark Donohue raced two of America’s favorite cars against each other. In motor sports history there is a contentious rivalry between the two cars. The rivalry still has lives today. Mustang versus Camaro has been the same as in Ford- versus- Chevy war. It defines the American automotive landscapes for much of past century. In 1964 was when the first ford Mustang came along. It took two and a half years for the General Motors to respond, the Mustang staked out the other cars and made a tremendous amounts of money. The growing sales shocked the Chevrolet and led them to create the Camaro.

At first, Chevrolet thought that its Corvair and Nova would hold out above the newcomer. The plan did not hold as they thought. Their car was no match for the V-8 performance of the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet knew something had to be done for them to boost their own sales.

Chevrolet answered in 1976 with the Camaro. The Camaro was fierce as if ready to fight. It had 396 cubic inches of V-8 power under the hood. The new competitor could definitely hold its own. The most distinguished part of the rivalry is that even through the oil shortages of the 1970s, both cars along with the rivalry itself survived.

After years of fighting, the war ended in 2002 when General Motors stopped making the Chevrolet Camaro. Three years passed without the Camaro but things changed in 2005 when Ford