We think that it is fair to say the 2014 Camaro Z/28 is a bad ass after seeing this video of it on the famed Nurburgring in Germany. The car turned a hot lap (at points in the rain) quicker than a Lamborghini and a Porsche 911 as well as a Carrera S. That is big time stuff for a car that will cost a fraction of the price. We’re not sure how many of them will actually be driven around the ‘Ring in heated competition with German and Italian super cars, but they certainly got the point across that the Camaro is a bad mother that will hold its own against the best in the world. The Z/28 is powered by a symphonic sounding 505hp engine and has a highly tuned suspension that you’ll see hard at work over the course of this action packed eight minute video. If the Boss 302 Mustang was still around, we think that the Z/28 would certainly have something for it. Hell, maybe the Boss went away because the Z/28 was coming and it wasn’t going to be a fair fight?
It is cool to us that we have both ends of the muscular handling American car genre on the site back to back today. The Dan Gurney ‘Cuda is loud and hairy and about as refined as a Sawzall when compared to the production line Z/28 featured in this video. We’d bet dollars to donuts that this Z/28 would absolutely lay waste to that ‘Cuda or any other legit 1970s era Trans-Am car that you wanted to throw up against it. From an active suspension system to a fully tuned 505hp fuel injected engine, there’s just no comparison.
Some things to pay attention to. From roughly 6:00 on, the driver is contending with a rain storm and wet asphalt. Call us weird if you want, but we were hella impressed that the wipers stayed planted to the windshield at super high speeds on the track. Also, the driver certainly had confidence in the car and himself because he didn’t miss much of a beat when racing through the rain storm and finishing the lap on wet asphalt. The man and the machine proved themselves very capable here.
We’re not sure what else to say other than this video rules and it will probably help Chevy move a few Z/28s, not that we think they’d need a ton of help. The price on these babies will be steep, but there will be a line (at least initially) waiting to snatch them up once production and dealer deliveries begin. After hearing how it sounds and seeing how it works, we want one!
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Man, talk about one beautiful exhaust note!
In the wet no less! What tires was it sporting?
I thought of the modern Mercedes when hearing the exhaust.. fitting opinion, as overseas and v8, Mercedes is the one that closest resembled American large.
160 in the rain! Now that takes balls!
I think Ford just shat their collective pants….THAT is one badass machine!
It was a beautiful thing!
airborne at 1:19 and 6:05! Wow.
Who ever is behind the wheel can flat out drive !
Wow ….. just wow . 160 mph in the rain. Just amazing.
Impressive. Especially for a driver whose day job is almost certainly that of an engineer or road test guy at GM.
That said, I would be willing to bet that on a mild, sunny day with a guy that knows the ‘Ring a little better, that car has 5-8 more seconds to give, which would be awesome. This car is challenging that part of me that really wants a C6 Z06 in a year or two.
All I can say is WOW! Thanks for the experience! Now I can say I have been there.
It always rains in the Schnee Eifel. That was one hell of a drive and a great car.
Just got my adrinalin shot for the day, at 60 yrs. this video gave me the need, the need for speed!!!
Funny how gullible people are and bite into the Government Motors B/S without even researching the “real story”. The “Lamborgini Record” they beat was over 7 years old, and the Lexus LFA actually BEAT it by over 23 seconds. The Camaro was so far down on the list of Nurburgring lap times I almost missed it.
Has anyone figured out how to extract the audio into a mp3?