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Originally Posted by why?
They are doing some amazing things with the Camaro. It is like they finally realized no one gave a crap if a Camaro was almost as good or even better than a Vette and just made it awesome.
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Honestly the new ZL1 1LE is really damn good. Almost too good.
I've got an acquaintance that buys a car, tracks it for awhile, trades it in and gets another. I think he's been through ~25 cars for every one car I buy (since I keep mine for at least 10 years at a time). Anyway, he's currently got a ZL1 1LE, and while he was a bit elbows and assholes on the local track, he set a 20 second faster laptime than I did mainly because being on power constantly in a much more powerful vehicle meant he had on average 15-20mph faster times in every track sector than I did in my BRZ. The BRZ had higher speed through the corners, but I just couldn't accelerate fast enough when not on a corner to match his speeds. Where I was doing 81, he was doing 112, where I was doing 73, he was doing 95, etc.
Granted, I'm also new to the track and he's a more experienced driver, so continued driver mod may change the situation, but I was blown away watching his replays. That Camaro wiped the floor with what I could do in a BRZ. Of course the Camaro also costs 3x what the BRZ costs as well, for the difference in cost I could go built motor, racing pulley supercharger, and complete carbon fiber body replacement + strip out, which would give the BRZ a better power/weight ratio than the Camaro ZL1. I don't have that sort of money or I might have bought a ZL1 myself after a fantastic test drive I had when I went looking.