2016 Camaro Official Specs!!!

[Jon|3.7]

Nice nice hopefully ford has a faster car when I decide to go for a bigger engine in a few years or it seems like I'll have to go to the dark side lol BUT looks and price does play a big role for me

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[Norm Peterson]

Well, the Camaro managed to utterly pwn the Mustang. According to car and driver, 0-60 in 3.9 secs.. Lol, it's funny how it matches the 0-60 in the gt350.

Ford really dropped the ball and everybody knows it unless you're a blind fanboi.

Maybe Ford just walked away from the mistaken notion that 0-60 was the be-all, end-all yardstick for car performance and enjoyment. They did step back a bit from the drag racing scene.


FWIW, you're comparing an 8A car against an M6 car for a test that the 8A is naturally going to be better at if its developers have even half a clue. Apples to pineapples, and what's funny is that you're trying to equate them.

Me, 0-60 times don't mean much at all, and even less when they were accomplished using the kind of transmission that neither my wife nor I ever want to have in any of our cars.


Norm

 

[Evolvd]

LOL...a fanboy of Mustangs...is that supposed to be insulting? Some people never grew up I guess.

 

[Norm Peterson]

Actually I'm among the least brand-loyal or model-loyal people you'll ever run across.

It's just that 0-60 really is that low on my list of priorities, and half a second difference there has no relevance in any of my driving. Even a full second isn't all that important. My street driving isn't hard enough for it to matter, and my hard driving isn't that slow.


Norm

 

[Doinworqson]

I'd take performance over looks any day... If i had the funds id so trade my GT PP for a new Camaro.. so wish I had waited. :/

 

[Fox5.0]

I'd take performance over looks any day... If i had the funds id so trade my GT PP for a new Camaro.. so wish I had waited. :/

Lol

Go trade it in then, one less mustang on the road. :cheers:

 

[steven]

i wonder what the real world 0 to 60 times will be? i bet for the most part they will all be mid to hi 4's? i dont know the price for the loaded v8 but im willing to bet its more expensive then fords, and honestly? how much would one have to spend to get that 0 to 60 time more or less the same on thier pony?

 

[Asharus]

i wouldnt trade mine in for one. but if i didnt already have my GTPP, i would be ordering a 1SS right now.

 

[Norm Peterson]

I think I'd wait for a 1LE kind of package a little further out . . . no way is there nothing left in reserve in that direction.


Agreed on the average driver on average pavement not seeing sub-4's. Maybe not even low 4's.


Norm

 

[Nataphen]

I think I'd wait for a 1LE kind of package a little further out . . . no way is there nothing left in reserve in that direction.


Norm

I'm betting that the magnetic ride option is going to be replacing the 1LE. They already have brakes, all that's left is a tire package of some sort. I could be wrong. I think you'd be knocking on the door of a $50K car at that point though. My local Chevy dealer has a 2015 1SS 1LE that is $42K before rebates.

 

[Norm Peterson]

Tires would (or at least should) drive quite a few downstream tweaks. Wheels, dampers, all sorts of chassis and suspension bushings even if you leave the springs and sta-bars alone. Not that a little more elastic stiffness over the "regular" SS and distributed a bit differently would be a bad thing for a 1LE.

On the magnetic ride - I'm waiting to hear what happens in real life . . . just how is their (presumably non-accessible) programming set up to affect transient handling, and what do the dampers default to if the software takes an unexpected vacation for any reason? I asked these questions some time ago over on Camaro5 because I get curious about things like this, and I never did get an answer.

The Z/28 did not get mag-ride . . . just saying.


Norm

 

[Nataphen]

I know, it got DSSV dampers. I don't expect them to go that route again because it's expensive and I honestly don't expect them to come out with another Z28.

MRC could be reprogrammed for tires, so that wouldn't be a big deal. Maybe the tire package would come with a few other suspension tweaks. I'm just guessing by the way. This is the direction I expect it to go.

 

[Norm Peterson]

I'm sure that the MRC would be tweaked for different wheel & tire packages and anything else. Doesn't make sense for it not to be.

I wonder about such things as transient handling for autocross and track lapping, where you might not want the same conservative shock tuning (read: understeerish) that would be appropriate for the average street driver. I suppose it could be dealt with to some extent via the 'modes', though that still means you're stuck with somebody else's preferences.


Norm

 

[evo8904]

Lol, wow, there is a lot of worry about the camaro. I can't wait to race one a make that camaro own trade his in for a mustang.

 

[Asharus]

if i got smoked by a whippled GTPP in my 1SS, i wouldn't sweat it.

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