Chevrolet’s track-focused Camaro ZL1 1LE is slated to make an appearance on the small screen, with a cameo on this season of NBC Sports’ /DRIVE program. The aggressive-looking sports coupe can be seen briefly in the trailer above, around the 0:15 mark, drifting around a corner at the racetrack.
/DRIVE on NBC Sports is the television adaptation of the well-known YouTube series, featuring Chris Harris, Matt Farah, and Mike Spinelli as regular hosts. It’s now entering its fourth season, having premiered in 2014. Episodes 1 and 2 of the new season aired last night at 10:00 and 10:30 pm ET.
The 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE is the quickest, most capable version of Chevy’s celebrated pony car ever – at least until the next Z/28 arrives. It beat the previous-gen Camaro Z/28 around the Nürburgring Nordschleife by an agonizing 21 seconds, and the previous-gen ZL1 by 25 seconds, thanks to Multimatic spool-valve dampers, a 60-pound weight reduction, Goodyear Eagle F1 Supercar tires, and downforce-generating aerodynamic aides out the wazoo.
We can’t wait to see what the /DRIVE guys think of Chevrolet’s best, highest-achieving Camaro ever.
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As someone who came of age during the Muscle Car era, I find today’s performance cars staggering performance capabilities mind bending, and this from someone who owned in the day several 442’s, a Charger R/T 440, and later, a 365-GTB with many new performance Muscle and sports cars in between.
While the escalation of performance capabilities during the 60’s was significant for the times, it pales in comparison to the capabilities of today’s offerings. It is just amazing that we have this new performance era, as we thought it was dead in 1973.
We have to enjoy it while we can, cuzz it will end for new ICE vehicles and hopefully there will be a new performance era, as evidenced by several of today’s EV’s, that will bring even greater performance while being kinder to the environment and us. They won’t have the aura of a Columbo V-12 on the cams or a small block Chevy at the limit, or the magnificent sound of a 150-cc 4-cyl. Honda RC-160 GP at 19,000 RPM, but they will still be fun and available.