Supposedly, if 100,000 people want one, Chevy will bring back the El Camino

Even though the last Chevy El Camino rolled off the line in 1987, there’s still a huge El Camino following. So when Joel Ewanick, GM Chief Marketing Officer tweeted yesterday that the company might consider bringing back the iconic truck/car hybrid if 100,000 people wanted it, that became a challenge for El Camino fans.
Since Jalopnik put up this story this morning, there’s already been nearly 2000 people commenting that they would get an El Camino, and they’re hoping for the magical number of 10,000 or more to show to Chevy that there’s still a following.

 

fail......

 

ok, 2,000 people say they want one..12 will buy it if it comes back..what a waste.

 

Had a 1980 ElCo as my first car. Thing handled like a tank, got 12mpg and had a huge 350 motor in it.

Then I turned 17 and got rid of it.

 

LOL! idk why but still made me laugh

 

I remember a couple of years ago GM had a Pontiac concept similar to the El Camino. It was called the G8 Sport Truck.


There is also a video and more information about this vehicle at: http://jalopnik.com/366699/2010-Pontiac-G8-Sport-Truck-The-El-Camino-Is-Back

 

Looks like something out of a Batman movie.

 

And look how pontiac is doin today

 

Hey! your signature is my quote from the marijuana thread. lol Part of the end of the quote got moderated however...

 

Shouldn't this be in the WTF thread?

 

yeah rep'd ya for it check your control panel

 

If they can find 100,000 people that want to bring back the El Camino, then they've also found 100,000 people that want to bring back the mullet.

 

Why not the Chevelle instead? Kinda dumb.

 

I would still have loved to have seen the a real version of the Trans Am concept that was floating around last year. It looked great.

 

Trans Am Depot. There is another company too but I can't remember the name.

http://www.transamdepot.com/


I miss the ElCo. It might be fairly easy for GM to do by bringing in a Holden ute and rebadging it.

 

they did not ruin the camaro,well maybe the stupid v6 motor

Some of the big motor models are so nasty.I want one

 

Ok, So.... what this means to say is they will bring it back in the USA. The El Camino never completely died and has been living strong in Australia under the GM owned Holden brand name. They would simply be bringing it back to the US. I believe even Ford still sells a similar design in Australia. In Australia they call it a Ute. This is not unusual thing to do as the last generation Pontiac GTO was simply a rebranded Holden.



The Ford version.





Holden Monaro aka Pontiac GTO

 

Yeah, both Holden and Ford put some awesome motors in their cars in Australia. The new Ford Taurus Sho is another Australia rebrand, i believe. The twin turbo V6's are very popular over there.

 

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gm products are on my do not buy list until their quality improves and is demonstrated.

 

This is the dumbest marketing stunt I've seen in a long time. If 100,000 people "like" it on facebook they will consider putting it into production in the US? I saw this on facebook too and figured it was some spam bull shit.

How about getting actual deposits on them GM? How would that work for you?