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Originally Posted by DGthe3
So? An anniversary is the celebration of the yearly recurrence of a past date. I think its latin roots roughly translate as 'years turned'.
If a car is required to still be in production to celebrate its anniversary, then there wouldn't be any anniversary edition Camaros -unless GM decided to do a 1st & 2nd anniversary edition for 1968 & 1969 respectively. The 1st gen ended production in 1969, ever since its been a new car with each successive generation.
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The only other point to consider it that the General Motors Company isn't the same entity that built the 1st through 4th generations.
They were the work of the General Motors Corporation. An entity that by all documentation ceased to exist in 2009.
So, while I have no issue with completely different cars, read generations, being the "same" car. I do somewhat take issue with an entirely different Company building their own product, that just happens to have the same name, and using a now dead company's inception date for that product as a "anniversary" date.
Logically the "5th gen" is the General Motors Company's 1st gen of
their Camaro product. And the "6th gen" is actually their 2nd gen. They are in fact spiritual successors to General Motors Corporation's 1st-4th gen Camaros. That's of course if your looking at it factually and not sentimentally.
So yes, the 50th anniversary of the General Motors Corporation's Camaro is 2017. General Motors Company's Camaro will not see a 50th until 2060.