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SPECIFICATIONS: year: 2016 make: Chevrolet Model: Camaro price: $ 25000 (Est.) Engine: inline-4 Transmission: 6-speed manual Horsepower @ RPM: 275 MPG(Hwy): 30 Torque @ RPM: 295 @ 3000 Displacement: 2.0 L 0-60 time: 6 sec. (Est.) Top Speed: 155 mph (Est.) It’s been only five years since the Chevy Camaro returned to the market after an unfortunate eight-year hiatus, and GM has already came up with a redesigned version of its iconic pony car. With development likely pushed forward by the arrival of the sixth-gen Mustang, which Ford showcased in late 2013, the new Camaro is finally here to brag about its many improvements inside and out. After months of speculation it’s finally confirmed that the new Camaro is far from revolutionary design-wise. However, the pony car has adopted a fresher look and numerous enhancements under the skin, which should put it on par with the significantly revised Mustang. Lighter and more nimble than its predecessor, the new Camaro a...

GM sees the Corvette as a genuine Porsche 911 rival, so much so that it claims to have benchmarked this lightly revised version of the sixth-generation car directly against it. The 911. Yes, you read that right. It also claims that the Corvette is the word's best-selling sports car. Yes, you read that right too. But, then, it's a home player in the American market. The fact that Britain accounts for annual sales in double figures makes a tiny impact on that claim, but it is something that GM is keen to redress. Is Britain big enough for the Corvette? Yep, it's a big car, and surprisingly small inside too. But the biggest bit is under the hood, sorry, bonnet. The already gigantic 'smallblock' V8 has been stretched from 5967cc to 6162cc, with a corresponding hike in power from 404bhp to 424bhp. If you like the idea of a big noise and a big shove in the back when you floor the throttle, the Corvette is your kind of car. Open the taps and you're immediately assa...

The new Corvette ZR1 is the world’s quickest and rawest sports car – only mad supercars and insane track cars can best it. This is a bright yellow bullet, with 638bhp (making it the most powerful ‘Vette of all time), carbonfibre bodywork and Brembo’s biggest ceramic brakes. Just 1800 ZR1s will be built each year at GM’s plant in Kentucky, with production ending in 2012. I think a deep breath is needed… 638bhp? I guess you’d better give me the figures for the Corvette ZR1 first… The engine is derived from the new LS3 6.2-litre V8, but in the ZR1 it’s mated to an Eaton supercharger. Thus designated LS9, it produces 638bhp, 38 ponies up on GM's original target. Along with a lot of horsepower the LS9 engine also produces 604lb ft. Propelling a mere 1508kg – kept low thanks to that carbonfibre bonnet, roof and wings – the ZR1 will hit 60mph in 3.4 seconds, without the need to change out of first gear. About half a minute la...

Chevrolet’s Camaro muscle car arrived in 1966 to challenge the rampant Ford Mustang, but left US dealer forecourts to Ford’s popular ‘Pony Car’ in 2003. After stunning motorshow audiences with the 2006 Camaro concept car, General Motors relaunched the Chevrolet Camaro in 2009. Sharing GM’s ‘Zeta’ rear-wheel drive platform with the Vauxhall VXR8 and Holden Commodore, the new Camaro range starts with a modern 3.6-litre V6 putting out 304bhp. In an era of engine downsizing can a V6 Camaro tackle its rivals from Japan and Korea, while still providing muscle car thrills? Read on for CAR’s review of the Chevrolet Camaro V6 find out. Chevrolet Camaro: why not go for the V8? With even the US manufacturers talking about downsizing and turbocharging their muscle cars it certainly sounds like the V6’s time may well be now, even with petrol prices stabilising and the US economy edging back into growth. That’s why we’re here in Sa...

All new. All-American. Also ran? No way… There’s an empty left lane, and a white hatch with a smoky exhaust in the right. Arrogantly, we take the left: ‘Hell, I’m in a Corvette.’ That sums up the attitude of this stonking new C7, with it’s 6.2-litre V8 and bright red paintwork that stands out like the dog’s bollocks. This car is as subtle as US patriotism, Boris Johnson’s hair or paparazzi chasing a royal birth. It makes no apologies and there’s nothing demure about it: it’s the most full-on new car this side of a Lamborghini, and even in London, Gallardo owners look at you like you’ve gone just a bit too far… What’s new about this ’Vette? This is the all-new C7 Corvette: the entirely new generation that was first shown in Detroit, 2012. It’s the fastest, most powerful, and most fuel efficient Corvette ever. It’ll do 0-60 in 3.8sec. And it’s even better to drive, being an amazing 60 ...

The Chevrolet Camaro's Z/28 badge is as hallowed among US car fans as GT3 is to Porsche nuts, but this latest Zee, the first since 2002, is special because it’s the first for over four decades to really do the legendary name justice. The original ’66-’69 Camaro Z/28 existed for one reason alone: to win the then-new SCCA Trans Am Championship, a kind of US version of the BTCC. It wasn’t a standalone model, instead Z/28 was simply the option code for a package that brought heavy duty suspension, quicker steering, plus a unique 4949cc (302-cubic inch displacement) V8 that fitted neatly under Trans Am’s 305-cid capacity limit, screamed to a most un-V8 like 6000rpm, and was cheekily underrated at 290bhp. Chevy sold just 602 cars that first year, compared with 34,000 SS Camaros. Who’d have a 5.0 when you could have a 6.5 for less wedge? Racer Mark Donohue would. In the ’68 Trans Am season he won 10 out of 11 races to capture the championship, the fi...

Chevy’s seventh-generation Corvette was launched in the US in 2013 and went on sale in the UK in spring 2014. The convertible has been available here since October. For your £69,490 you get a beguilingly low-slung and distinctively styled soft-top sportscar packing a 466bhp 6.2-litre V8 in a chassis built primarily in aluminium, for a kerb weight of 1589kg. Choosing the soft-top over the coupe will cost you £4560 and incurs a 50kg weight penalty. 2015 Corvette Stingray convertible For much of the Corvette’s 60-year existence the car has majored on visual drama and sledgehammer power, with such fripperies as a nicely resolved chassis some way down the list of priorities. But this Stingray is a very different proposition. It still does things its own way, with transverse composite leafsprings featuring in the suspension (a compact solution that gives a low centre of gravity) and a big-capacity, two-valves-per-cylinder V8 in the nose, but given how well the car driv...

Z06 is to Corvette as CSL has been to BMW, a three-digit slug loaded with performance promise.
The first Z06 package was developed in the early 1960s at the behest of Corvette Godfather Zora Arkus-Duntov, to give his race drivers – men like Roger Penske – an edge in sports car racing. Effectively an $1818 factory race kit buried in the options list, wedged between the wood-grained plastic steering wheel ($16.15) and the power steering ($75.35), the Z06 code then passed into obscurity for nearly 40 years, with ZR-1 becoming the label of choice for high-performance variants of Bowling Green’s all-American sports car. Z06 returned on the C5 Corvette, and now the latest-generation C7 has been given the Z06 treatment, creating a kind of Corvette GT3 . Not an options package but a standalone model, the Z06 nevertheless comes in several guises. Choose between coupe and convertible body styles (the coupe’s carbonfibre roof is quick-release, so even the coupe offer...

Overview: The Corvette Stingray—the seventh generation, or C7—competes with the world’s greatest sports cars, and once again we’ve named it to our 10Best list. With a 6.2-liter V-8 making 460 hp and 465 lb-ft of torque, you can now choose an eight-speed automatic transmission in addition to the standard seven-speed manual. It sheds its unrefined reputation and has an interior befitting its stature. Offered as a targa or convertible, the Corvette is a performance bargain that you must drive to believe. Price: $61,995-$ 84,840