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I am impressed that of all cars, the Camaro ended up being the first. I am not too surprised that a GM car did so, but to be honest, the target buyers of Camaros are more interested in acceleration/power specs than safety. Kudos to GM for achieving this.

"The Chevy Camaro coupe is the first vehicle to earn a perfect score in National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's safety testing since the federal testing procedures were revised for 2011"

So it has a perfect score by 2011 standards. Model S will be the first (and has a shot of being the only one for a while) to have a perfect score by 2012 standards.

Nicu;
That doesn't follow. "Since" leaves open the 2012 standards as the ones followed.
From another Autoblog article:
"For the 2011 model year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has implemented tougher crash testing procedures that make it more difficult for vehicles to receive a five-star rating. The new test is known as the NCAP, or New Car Assessment Program, and the first batch of cars were evaluated earlier in the year. Ten more vehicles have been subjected to the NCAP, and the results are promising... for most"

A commenter on this article observed:
"Technically the Camaro did not ace all NHTSA tests. NHTSA has tests for the performance of Forward Collision Warning (FCW) and Lane Departure Warning (LDW) (two features NHTSA HIGHLY recommends you have). Since the Camaro does not offer these features yet, so they weren't test.

If you look at the safercar website you will notice that NHTSA has added three "Active Safety" checkboxes. One is for Electronic Stability Control (ESC), one for Forward Collision Warning (FCW) and one for Lane Departure Warning. All three checkboxes are checked for the new GMC Terrain, but not for the Camaro." So it doesn't have "Active Safety" stars, while (I presume) the 'S' would get tested for those.

Additionally, I note that their list of cars to be tested in 2012 does not include any Tesla models. http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/communications/pdf/nhtsa1711.pdf
So perhaps Elon has been referring to other testing agencies?

I like the sticker on the Camero that says "Post Test".

Just to keep the control group seperate from the test subjects, I assume.