The Chevy Camaro is no longer in production

General Motorswhich sells the brawny muscle car, said Wednesday it will stop making the current generation early next year.

The future of the car, which is raced in NASCAR and other circuits, a bit murky. GM says another generation may be in the works.

“While we are not announcing an immediate successor today, rest assured, this is not the end of Camaro’s story,” said Scott Bell, vice president of Chevrolet, in a statement.

The current sixth-generation Camaro, introduced in 2016, has done well on the racetrack, but sales have slowed in recent years. When the current generation Camaro came out in 2016, Chevrolet sold 72,705 of them. But by the end of 2021 that number had fallen almost 70% to 21,893. It was slightly back last year to 24,652.

GM said the last of its 2024 model year cars will roll off the assembly line in Lansing, Michigan, in January.

Spokesman Trevor Thompkins said he had nothing more to say about the upcoming Camaro. “We’re not saying anything specific right now,” he said.

The company, he said, had an understanding with auto-racing sanctioning bodies that the sixth-generation car could continue racing. GM has parts available and the Camaro body will stay on the race track, he said.

NASCAR says that because the Generation 6 Camaro was in production when GM originally received permission to race, it remains eligible to race in the NASCAR Cup and NASCAR Xfinity Series races.

GM will offer a collector’s edition package on the 2024 Camaro RS and SS in North America, and a limited number of high-performance ZL-1 Camaros. The collector’s edition cars are related to the first-generation Camaro from the 1960s and its GM code name “Panther,” the company said without providing details.

GM’s move comes as Traditional gas-powered muscle cars are starting to be phased out due to strict government fuel economy regulations, concerns about climate change and a rapid shift towards electric vehicles.

Stellar, will stop making gas versions of the Dodge Challenger and Charger and the Chrysler 300 large sedan at the end of this year. But the company has plans to launch a battery-powered Charger car in 2024.

Electric cars, with instant torque and a low center of gravity, are often faster and better handled than internal combustion cars.

Stellantis, formed in 2021 by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and PSA of France Peugeotannounced earlier this week the ultimate in special edition muscle cars, the 1,025 horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170. The company says the car can go from zero to 60 mph (97 kilometers per hour) in 1.66 seconds, making it the fastest production car on the market .