While it may be Thanksgiving, retailers and businesses have been quietly stocking up for America’s brute-force shopping day: Black Friday. Or, Black Thursday, seeing many shops open as soon as your uncle finishes the last slice of pie.
While we’re sure the deals are good on consumer electronics, Jalopnik has likely found the greatest deal of them all for Black Friday: the 2015 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28.
Why? Because there are currently 60 of them listed across the U.S. with $25,000 slashed from their original $75,000 MSRPs. Talk about savings.
Chevrolet may have overestimated what some will pay for a true track machine, but that’s only good news for shoppers, because for around $55,000, you’re receiving a Camaro that will trump a Nissan GT-R at the track nearly any day, and put those Hellcat boys to shame.
So, forget Season’s Greetings from some automakers. Slap a bow on a Z/28 and really make someone happy this holiday season.
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Just checked the Chevy website and it shows no reduction in msrp nor does it allow an inventory check for a 2015 camaro, of any build. Maybe they sold them all or this alleged reduction is a BS farce…….
The savings are at certain dealers. Go to jalopnik for the info on some of them.
Come and get one from Calgary Canada Just under $50k USD with the current exchange rates
http://www.cmpauto.com/New-2015-Chevrolet-Camaro-Z28-Calgary-Alberta/vd/29358419
With the effort, that’s about the same as the dealer-reduced $55k.
Chevy isn’t advertising this because it’s dealer/GM incentives that are promoted via the dealers. There’s no way GM would tout a Z/28 for $25k off directly.
The big question mark though is what will GM do with the next Z/28. I suspect there’s more than 50 horsepower left on the table in today’s LT4. A 2017 Camaro ZL1 could possibly best Hellcat at 707 horsepower, and with a weight shedding Z/28 variant (perhaps with some carbon added in)… GM could even beat Tesla in 0 to 60.
I don’t see GM ever letting the Camaro leave the factory with more hp than the Corvette unless a more powerful Corvette is due soon after.
That being said if they do crank out a new ZL1 with Hellcat besting power, I’d like to think the engine would be a new design with a new designation maybe “LT5” something of that nature and have none of the LT4’s issues, just to give it its own personality so nobody is saying “it’s got a Z06 motor.”
As for the next Z/28 I’d like to see the LS7 stay in it, I feel it’s such an underutilized gem, fix any issues and give it more power, it’s more than capable as an engine. What I’d really like to see is it be marketed as the 427 more too. The Z/28 with a 427. The thought of that ad gives me chills.
The LT engine as much more left in HP. Reports have been the Corvette team has played with over 1,000 but can not get it to the ground.
The old ZR1 could do 725 HP and still pass warranty and emissions testing. This came direct from an Engineer working on the program.
They will play with numbers and we have yet to see all the LT engine yet. We will see more power less weight and faster cars.
Note the LT4 is just a stepping stone.
The key to GM is to use as much power as they can put to the ground. The Hell Cat has some good numbers but the engine management takes so much of it out as they can not use it all. Power not going to the ground is useless.
Anyone can make a lot of power but few can put it to the ground.
The next Z/28 will not have Hellcat besting power. That would go to the ZL1. The Z/28 will have everything in it to make it one of the best track cars, which pretty much guarantees it will not have ridiculous amounts of power.
http://youtu.be/gAvMSvaLzHY
Looks like the outstanding 2016 Shelby GT 350 which is priced at only $49,995 put the hurt on the overpriced Z/28.