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$105,000..........then you show up for a grudge night and the Nelsons are there with a $5,000 car......Awwwwwww....
What's more wild than Chevrolet's new 2022 COPO Camaro? It's V8 engine–all 572 cubic inches of it.
For the metrically inclined, that comes in at around 9.3-liters, almost 3 liters larger than the Dodge Demon’s V8 and still 2 whole liters larger than Ford’s 7.3-liter “Godzilla” V8.
The new car harkens back to the original ‘69 COPO Camaro, a purpose-built drag racing car built by dealerships using Chevy’s Central Office Production Order system (hence the COPO name), allowing them to special order a Camaro with the car maker’s largest V8 engine at the time.
If for some reason 9.3 liters is too much for you, Chevy will gladly sell you a COPO Camaro with a supercharged, 5.7-liter V8 or a naturally aspirated, 7.0-liter V8, NHRA rated for 580 horsepower and 470 horsepower, respectively.
It’s worth mentioning that the COPO Camaro is (unfortunately) not street legal, though Chevrolet notes that, unlike previous versions of the car, it “will not limit production for 2022.”
Oddly enough, Chevrolet doesn’t mention any power figures in the release, but does give us a price: $105,500.
Interested? You can find the order form here.
$105,000..........then you show up for a grudge night and the Nelsons are there with a $5,000 car......Awwwwwww....
In reply to DeadSkunk (Warren) :
With minimal prep, I hope they can run 7's@180....
Man, the back 3/4s of modern Camaros look slick, but man, Chevy can't get the front end sorted out. That's fugly. $100,000? Give them a cool bumper GM.
In reply to Appleseed :
What could be cooler than paying homage to Sir Ian McKellen?
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While it has zero applicability to me, I am looking forward to more details being released on this.
I'm not sure if this is a really late April Fool's joke or not. Part of the point of the COPO program was homologation. That Camaro will never be registered for the street in any state. It's just flex.
As a classic car guy, this is just a massive question mark.
In reply to Ranger50 :
Well...given that they're extracting well over 1000 crank horsepower from a 5.4 LS, I wouldn't bet against them.
The order form for the car supposedly lists prices and specs for each engine option:
I'm not sure if GM is sandbagging or if there's some weird issue with how the NHRA determines power, but 430hp from the 572 seems drastically lower than one might expect. A carb'd 572 crate engine from GM performance makes 727hp/680ft-lbs
Interesting that the 572 engine is the cheapest one and the cars are being built with TH400 reworked transmissions.
In reply to STM317 :
Pretty sure the 9.4 430 HP one is limited so it runs in a certain NHRA class.
In reply to NOT A TA :
It's aimed at NHRA stock and super stock classing, so you're likely right. Another article I read suggested that GM and NHRA had yet to agree on the power rating.
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