Good Guy GM Won't Junk Your Warranty If You Break Your Chevrolet Camaro On Track

If the only thing holding you back from a track outing in the new Camaro is a concern over something going wrong and landing you with a big bill, there’s no need to worry. Camaro Chief Engineer Al Oppenheiser has said that if you experience an issue on track while driving one of the new sixth-gen Camaros, General Motors will still honour the warranty.

There are things to bear in mind such as modifications, but if you play by the rules, your car is covered. Speaking to Motor Authority, Oppenheiser said: “if you’re not modifying your car and you take your production car to a track day and you have an issue with one of your parts, it’s covered under warranty….We know when somebody changes their ECM calibration and we know if they changed to a cold-air intake, we can tell all that. But driving it as you break it in from the dealership, if you have a half-shaft or whatever, it’s covered.” Another caveat is that it depends what Camaro you’re driving: you’ll need to be in an SS model or higher to be covered.

As a reminder, thanks to a lower weight figure and an increase in power, the new SS is actually as fast as the old Z/28, with its 6.2-litre V8 hauling it from 0-60mph in four seconds dead.