When the guys from GM called and said that a new ZL1 Camaro was on it’s way to my house last week, it was a surprise. We didn’t have anything planned, and we didn’t know what the hell we were going to do for a road test on this thing. What we did know was that we wanted to race this car as much as possible during our 7 day test period. Within 90 minutes of getting the car we were doing burnouts and making passes on the dragstrip with it. Two days later we spent an entire day Autocrossing the holy piss out of the thing and proving just how good this car can handle. Sunday we gave it a break from anything other than daily driver duties, and yesterday it rained all day. We did go out and do some traction control testing in the wet, and ran for some groceries, but nothing overly exciting. If the weather cooperates we’ll be out at Adams Motorsports Park in Riverside this evening racing the car again, on their cool road course.
As of midnight tonight we’ll have about 36 hours left to drive this bad boy, so time is getting short.
With that said, is there anything in particular that you guys want us to do with this ZL1 Camaro?
If anyone was going to say “Get a photo of it with a helicopter”, don’t bother. We already did that.
Jump it over the helicopter in the photo
How many full sized coolers can you fit in the trunk?
Oh or turbonique drag axle
Turbonique? . . . IRS reduced to shrapnel in 3-2-1 . . . BOOM!
Whats it run(1/4 mile) right off the highway. No blower cooling nothing just getting off the road and making a pass. Thats a more realistic “what does it run” situation. Hows it compare to an NA 5.0 mustang at a stoplight on an august day? Just curious.
Clark
We don’t have the ability to run it at a 1/4 mile dragstrip because the nearest one is 3 hours away and not open during the week. With that said, we did take it straight from the highway to the 1/8th mile dragstrip and ran 8.268 at 90 mph.
Did they time it with a calendar or an hour glass?
Cool, thanks for the response Chad!
Road course track day!
If SOMEONE would have told me that the roadcourse track day was happening last Friday I would have been there! LOL
burn it its a camaro
Get totally stomped by a 662-hp Shelby GT500 in the quarter mile . . . . (actually, get wasted by a much cheaper, mildly-tuned Coyote Mustang in the quarter mile) . . . .
Test out the visor vanity mirrors by shaving off the Mini-ZZ beard.
Park at a C-store in Compton with the motor running . . . .
Deliver that cartoonish taxpayer’s car back to “Government Motors” HQ at the “Ren Cen” in bankrupt DEADtroit and put on a Cali-style “syde show.”
Give it to Elana Scherr so she can see how “tuff” it is in the CRUSHER!
+ 1 from top to bottom . Couldn’t of said it better . Can’t add a thing to it . Especially considering it was revealed today that the American tax payer will lose some $10 billion on GM’s bailout when alls said and done . OK .. I can add one thing … burn it to the ground !
Duh, borrow it to me for a day or two!!
Burnouts in front of city hall!!!
Jump Snake River Canyon!
take it into the LA Riverbed and do what they did in Grease and Gumball Rally
take it out and see how many good looking women you can pick up in it that sounds better then burning it like the other guys said i am glad its not a jap car toyota taking over your old time America
UM, we are talking about CHAD here . . . .
And even if it were possible, Ms. Chad might not be too fond of the CHADMEISTER snagging the sort of meth queens, SNAP baby mamas, and “ladies” of the evening that might actually be attracted by a Camaro . . . .
Road trip to Pismo and get that bitch going in circles on the sand!
Stop by the Source-Interlink offices and do burnouts in their parking lot. Heck, you don’t work there.
Recreate some famous movie or TV stunts, like in Smokey And The Bandit, Bullitt or Dukes Of Hazzard.
…. or even better ( as well as more appropriate to the car ) … that iconic scene from ” Thelma & Louise ” … using stunt doubles of course seeing as we likes our Chad
Take it to Westech and put it on the dyno
The CNBC “Car Chasers” want to see some “NAWZ” on it . . . 🙂
Find out how long it will run on the rev limiter like those rental shit boxes you get.
Go to Finnegan or Frieburgers house and do a lawn job!
see how fast it goes in a mile
Wheelies.
LOL! What rat patrol said! Crash a Roadkill episode!