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The camaro should fallow what most manufacturers do.
Temp gauge starts at the bottom. 80F is the first line usually.
180F is operating temp. They always show 10% less than half the gauge to psicologically make you think the engine is cold (people think about cold and hot as their body temp / feeling, nobody has automotive knowledge anymore).
After 235/240F the gauge starts to creep at a different ratio that is does from 32 to 180.
250f might be 3/4 and 260 100%.
then the gauge is dead from 180 to 240.
I understand the engineers. Back in the time and analog gauges were hard to trick like this. That's why we hear "that model used to run hot" and nobody says that anymore.
Last time OEM's made that mistake was with the C4 corvette. The coolant temp gauge goes to 3/4 all the time and the car is know for "overheating" when in reality is supposed to work at that temp.
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