2018 Chevrolet Camaro SS 1LEBrian Harper / Driving As Europe continues to tighten emissions regulations, the handful of EU or U.K. citizens that appreciate the subtleties of the big-block Chevrolet V8 and have been hoping to get into the latest performance offering from the brand are finding themselves in a pinch. A ban on sales of any Chevy vehicle with a 6.2-litre LT1 V8 engine will take effect August 31, 2019, making the C7 Corvette and sixth-gen Camaro SS impossible to purchase new in the United Kingdom and European Union as of September 1, though used models can still be moved. The over-460-horsepower V8 engine just doesn’t fit with Europe’s vision of a pollution-free future. To be fair, the modern American muscle cars have hardly been selling like crumpets across the pond. According to British outlet Motoring Research, which recently published a “last chance to buy a muscle car” warning, the last wave of English Vettes and Camaros are being sold from a single authorized dealer in the U.K. Not exactly crushing demand, despite the fact the Camaro tops Motoring Research’s list of Britain’s favourite specialist used cars. The Corvette didn’t make the top ten. Makes you wonder if GM will even push for European distribution for the upcoming C8 Corvette, right?
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The curious case of the crumpled Camaro and two dead buffalo
It’s not uncommon to find bison near or on the road in Wood Buffalo National Park in the Northwest Territories. It’s right there in the name. Locals know that and drive appropriately. And according to one local gas station attendant who says he gassed up a Chevrolet Camaro with New Jersey license plates on a Saturday night in May, the young, male out-of-towner was notified of the potential mammalian road blocks. I asked him where he was going, and he said he was heading out of town, the Petro-Canada attendant, Brian Dragon, told the CBC. I told him there were a lot of buffalo on the road, and I told him to be careful. Unfortunately, it seems the unknown driver of the Camaro with tinted windows throughout and black American air force-inspired decals on the side was not cautious enough. Kathy Lepine and her mother drove up on the scene early the next morning, seeing the two dead buffalo a short distance from the smashed vehicle with its body badly damaged, the windshield collapsed and a blanket draped eerily over the driver’s seat. But perhaps the most bizarre and grisly detail was that the driver was nowhere in sight. We saw the buffalo upside down and kind of mangled, followed by the red car with the star on it, Lepine said. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a vehicle accident so fresh and that bad the whole front end of that vehicle was toast, like, it was crushed. Local authorities from the nearby town of Fort Smith have yet to release any details about the accident, including whether or not they know where the driver is, saying only that there was no ambulance called to the location.
Origin: The curious case of the crumpled Camaro and two dead buffalo
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