Chevy Camaro ZL1 vs C7 Corvette ZR1 vs C8 Z06 On The Track: Video
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If you love watching Bow-Tie-branded sports cars like the Chevy Camaro ZL1, C7 Corvette ZR1, or C8 Corvette Z06 running flat out on the racetrack, this video is for you.
Clocking in at about 8 minutes, 45 seconds, the video is pretty straightforward, giving us a behind-the-wheel view of a Chevy Camaro ZL1 at a track day event at Virginia International Raceway (VIR). It appears as though the camera was mounted directly to the driver’s helmet, showing us what it’s like to be in the hot seat as the Chevy Camaro ZL1 gets put through its paces.
Luckily, there’s no voiceover narration or overlaid music – all we hear is the sound of the Chevy Camaro ZL1’s supercharged V8 engine, plus the combustion noise of whatever happens to be nearby, including a C7 Corvette ZR1 and C8 Corvette Z06.
Indeed, the driver has no issue testing the Chevy Camaro ZL1’s status as a track-ready sports car, diving deep into the corners and attacking the apexes with control and poise. Although the driver does come up on some slower-moving traffic, it’s usually quickly dispatched on the next straight with a point-by.
For those readers who may be unaware, the Chevy Camaro ZL1 is equipped with the supercharged 6.2L V8 LT4 gasoline engine, which is rated at 650 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque. Output reaches the rear tires by way of either GM’s six-speed manual transmission, or the GM 10-speed automatic transmission, with this particular example fitted with the former.
Meanwhile, the C7 Corvette ZR1 cradles the supercharged 6.2L V8 LT5 gasoline engine, rated at 755 horsepower and 715 pound-feet of torque, with either the GM 7-speed manual or GM 8-speed automatic transmission onboard for the cog swaps. Finally, the new C8 Corvette Z06 runs the naturally aspirated 5.5L V8 LT6 gasoline engine, which is rated at 670 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque, all of which is harnessed by the same eight-speed, dual-clutch transmission as the C8 Corvette Stingray.
Which would you rather have?
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Too bad the camaro is going away…. Not to smart GM. We don’t want electric garbage, not all the way.
GM does not want EV we either but all the companies have no real choice if they want to sell cars in many states and or countries in the future.
That’s because of bad policies coming from the left leaning governments. Global warming is a scam to charge us on our carbon. Wealth distribution. The earth goes through natural warming and cooling cycles like it has for millions of years.
Tell us you don’t know what you are talking about without actually telling us.
Lol ha your so uniformed. Do your own research global warming is a scam. Ok sheep
*You’re.
Explain the weather that has been happening. We never had soft ball hail. I grew up in tornado alley the panhandle of Texas hasn’t had a tornado since the nineties. Explain the massive destructions of hurricanes and now the east coast is getting tornadoes. Such a scam. BTW now they are telling us we have hail season.
Tell us you don’t know what you are talking about without actually telling us.
Funny copy cat. you’re that ignorant you can’t come up with your own response lol
He’s telling it like it is, atmospheric C02 is plant food… current 30-400 PPM is bottom level for plant survival, much lower atmospheric C02 then we have now and the entire planets agriculture collapses and we starve to death… so wanna tell us you don’t know what your talking about without actually telling us you don’t know what your talking about ?
Spot on. Just listen to them speak at the WEC and hear what they say.
They are not just after your ICE engine but what you eat, buy where you live how you live etc.
These are control freaks.
The WEF is a Nazi spawned organization, Klaus is by Bloodline himself Nazi spawn… The more powerful the WEF becomes the more the planet will suffer
I know a lot actually. Do any research at all and you all would see. Im not talking about the scam scientists that are bought and paid for by the globalist machine. Global warming is a myth. They got all you liberals scared. Anyone heard of new world order?
You really seem to know a lot about the global warming myth. I’d really be interested in seeing the sources you are using to back up your statements. Please post any links or journal citations for me to become better informed on this. Thanks.
Thanks to the moderator who took down my link. Now I know why they call it GM “Authority”. Keep the pro climate change comments and get rid of any other opinion. I know how GM is bought and paid for by the 1% elitists
You can always count on the gma moderator to censor you.
Cadillac moron: Your comment alone shows your ignorance !!, I don’t remember a million years ago cavemen, Aztecs, Mayans having 18 wheelers, Container Ships, lawn mowers, weed eaters, edgers, and blowers, cars, trucks, pollution spewing factories !! Of course the earth healed itself from all this crap that wasn’t around then your Fing moron !!
Wow man. You are the one who sounds like a moron. You dem snowflakes can’t tolerate nothing. Funny coming from the party of “tolerance”
CadillacMan,
You just said yourself that the earth goes through warming and cooling cycles, which implies that you acknowledge global warming as real. Safe to say that it has not happened in the last hundred or so years since the exponential population growth and toxic emissions from corresponding industry and automobiles. We are now in a warming cycle and companies are trying to be mindful of their carbon footprint.
Just because you don’t like the idea of the automobile industry moving toward electric models does not mean that there is some conspiracy to somehow find another way to grab your money. It’s just getting old listening to all the naysayers spreading doom and gloom and false truths about this just because it doesn’t align with their thinking.
I wonder how people reacted to the introduction of ICE cars in place of the horse and buggy. Gas stations were not plentiful. Gas was/is taxed. Maintenance was required to keep the cars going. Gas is an explosive. All valid arguments for then and now. Somehow people evolved. Somehow people adapted. Fuel stations began popping up. Fuel economy continued to improve, which gave the cars longer range. Cars continued to become safer. Does any of this sound familiar??
I can’t imagine what it would be like to travel in a horse and buggy, just like the future generations not being able to imagine putting gas in a car. Things change. We just happen to be in this most recent transition. It will be fine.
Not scared of Evs son, but if you don’t think the 1% richest people are conspiring to control us all, you are a fool.
Z71/4×4 = Z71/16 = 4.4375z, which is not Z = 4.4375 ! Same for ZL1 ZR1
Are you still trying to solve these Chevrolet equations MK? Try solving the String Theory when you have time.
I would like to see GM do a 7th Gen Camaro with a higher roof line with a minimum of 500hp. Just offer the V8 and offer an SS and ZL1 with minimal options. Let us be able to build the cars like they did back in the day. Now that would be cool. I bet they would sell like hot cakes especially with the Challenger and Charger going EV.
A proper driver. Nicely done!
Good Lord, can’t people just talk without ruining everything by introducing politics?! What a cool video. Great to see dude with cast iron balls maxim’ out the Camaro, and fun to see his excitement! The vetts would be annoyed to wave him past, but honesty good drivers make the car. All of these thing far outperform their owners.
Supercharged cars and supercharged politics. Much better to listen to the supercharged cars.
AngryCadillacMan is more appropriate for your name. Also, try not to use double negatives in your sentences. It does not help make your case.
Makes me proud that I myself have inspired so many of you to comment.