Car manufacturers talk a good game when it comes to their “performance divisions,” but few can back it up with the actual hard parts and racing knowledge. Chevy Performance, however, talks the talk and walks the walk: They can actually provide the parts to turn your Camaro into a machine that can attack the track as well as the street.
Hot on the heels of the reintroduction of the Z/28 as a road-course-destroying monster, Chevy Performance has announced that they will happily sell you all the go-fast goodies that make this car a world-class track machine. They even brought a couple of demo cars—Z/28 clones built from Camaro SS models—to show their stuff to journalists on track after the SEMA show in Las Vegas last November.
Chevy has decided their Z/28 imposters were just too good not to share, so they left one in our care for the upcoming race season. We plan to wring it out at the track competing in NASA Time Trials and whatever else we can find.
Want to see exactly what this car consists of? Click here and scroll down to “Stage 3.”
The icing on the cake? Chevy was also kind enough to provide a matching Colorado pickup to tow their beast to and from the track. The bed is big enough to hold all the trophies we’ll be collecting.
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3908 lbs according to Chevy's website for an SS1 package normal base car. It might be heavier than the Colorado. They are damn impressive... like watching a 250lb stripper work the pole but I wish they would cut out about 750lbs before they spend anymore money on power or bigger anything. Bring lots of tires and brakes with you when you go. It's going to gobble them faster than an M5.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: ...I wish they would cut out about 750lbs...
I wish they would cut 2000 lbs. I really miss light cars.
How much longer you think it will take for manufacturers to realize a 4000lb car is slower than a 3500lb (or less!) car?
Edit someone else is thinking the same.
I can hear them now "you know what would make our sports car even better? Heated leather 37 way adjustable seats, satnav, back up beepers and even more traction/stability control nannies!"
You can not have the Camaro whooping it up on the Corvettes and thus it will never be made faster then it. Also I bet that 90 percent of the Camaros that are actually sold are going to be V6 cars with bloated option packages.
That said the first thing that they should work on reducing is the price. I was at a local Chevy dealer and they 15 or so of them on the lot with 4-5 V8 cars. All the V8 cars were listed over $50K and several well over $70k. Chevy needs to figure out how to make performance affordable again. Chevy always was the working mans car that when asked could still lay down the wood. The new Camaro can probably run with some of the best cars on the market but it has got far away from being affordable by the everyday driver.
In reply to JohnyHachi6:
Well, me too... but I was trying to be practical. A 3200lb car can have a lovely interior with all the bells/whistles, safety and all that stuff... and go a berkeleyload faster with the same engine. A 1900lb car really needs to be bare bones beyond what most people (except you and I ;)) consider reasonable.
I quite honestly can't figure out where all that weight could be coming from. What luxo crap did they add that a 2005 BMW E46 M3 didn't have? THey must have had to work to make it that heavy.
For perspective, my 1970 ford 4x4 weighs 3950. That's a really porky sports car.
My 1966 Galaxie convertible is 3800 lbs! That thing is 18 ft long.
chiodos wrote: I can hear them now "you know what would make our sports car sell even better? Heated leather 37 way adjustable seats, satnav, back up beepers and even more traction/stability control nannies!"
Fixed that for you. 
I have a 2011 SS Camaro. For a 3900 lb car it is ridiculously fast and corners on rails. If it only weighed 3000 lbs it would be scary fast. Why does it weigh so much? Frankly its a big car. IF it is sitting next to my 67, which weighs 3100, it is longer, wider and taller. And the inside seems smaller because of all the crap they stuff in there. The next generation is supposed to be built on a smaller platform so lets hope it weighs under 3400.
P.S. It will eat the 400 Hp 67's lunch all day long, and will easily get 24 mpg cruising at 75.
Ian F wrote:chiodos wrote: I can hear them now "you know what would make our sports car sell even better? Heated leather 37 way adjustable seats, satnav, back up beepers and even more traction/stability control nannies!"Fixed that for you.
Unfortunately that is the truth
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