This V6 Chevrolet Camaro Came Stupidly Close To Beating A Hellcat On Track
There may be a massive power differential between the two muscle cars, but the Camaro gets close to a legendary giant-killing in this Car & Driver test
The Chevrolet Camaro may be powered by a seemingly minuscule 335bhp V6 with less than half the outright grunt of the manic 697bhp Dodge Charger Hellcat, but this track test shows the budget pony car is a force to be reckoned with. It managed a time just half a second off of the Charger’s effort, obliterating its similarly priced rivals.
Taking part in Car And Driver’s annual ‘Lightning Laps’ track battle, the Chevy Camaro set one hell of a time - a 3min 4sec lap that ended up in a class win for the muscle car. Trouncing the likes of the EcoBoost Mustang and the 350Z Track - a past record holder - the Camaro was quicker through certain sectors of the track than an F-Type SVR and the R8 V10. Not bad at all…
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The rivalry continues…
There’s no continues. The Camaro is now a league ahead of the Mustang.
There’s been a disturbance in the force 😳😳😳
Certain sectors.
What’s more impressive is that the V8 Camaro 1LE has a faster lap time than the 2017 R8 V10.
And yet there will still be kids who don’t like V6 muscle cars
Idk the gnx is pretty nasty.
To quote Car and Driver from it’s lightning lap piece:
“Let’s be honest; nobody looks at this thing and thinks “track car.” Okay, maybe parallel tracks with Christmas trees, but not track with curves.”
They’re American cars, so race ‘em at the dragstrip: The Charger would beat it by a whole second.
Some more of the article:
“That said, it’s fun. You run over everything in your way; curbs, trees, flag stations, and anything that threatens to make it turn any more than it really has to.”
It must be fun in the way that slow cars often are.
Twice the ponies and still would only beat it by a second
Dodge fanboys be like “but 707 hp, it would kill the camaro in straight line“
Not necessarily. Because I know Dodge cars aren’t good at tracks, (part from the Viper👀) but I abselutely adore the majority of Dodge/SRT vehicles. 😆
I am a Dodge fanboy (or was), and I fully admit that the more than a decade old S-Class chassis it rides on is terrible for a muscle car…
Choosing between a hellcat and a Camaro is like choosing between a disklok and a bar lock
Camaro tho…