Jump in, buckle up and hang on tight because you’re about to have a driver’s point-of-view perspective of the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro on a track. Where? The 2.36-mile (3.80 km) long Detroit Belle Isle and its 14 turns. However, don’t expect a fast lap time.
First of all, the slabs of concrete and battered asphalt that make up the circuit’s straights and 14 turns aren’t the best ingredients to go hell-bent for leather in a 2016 Camaro. Patrick George of Jalopnik experienced the track’s wrath and how hard a Camaro bites when he “gingerly facelifted” a prototype in a tire wall.
It gets even funnier though. The test mules offered to journalists to drive at Belle Isle were all V6 models. Yeah, the Corvette LT1 V8-powered 2016 Camaro SS would’ve been a better proposition to feel the weight balance under braking and in the twisties. However, the bunch commonly known as automotive journalists isn’t without fault when it comes to driving a test car, especially on the raggedy edge of grip.
Scrapes and minor crashes are a hush-hush reality in the world of auto reviews and don’t let other people tell you otherwise. So what can we learn from the adjacent video, portraying a 2016 Chevrolet Camaro V6 going moderately fast on the Detroit-based race track? It goes without saying that the induction and exhaust sounds of the 355 HP and 284 lb-ft (385 Nm) 3.6-liter LGX V6 are hair-rising to say the least.
I am having trouble trying to find a better sounding V6 that’s still in production, other than the supercharged 3-liter V6 engine in the bewitching Jaguar F-Type. Similarly impressive is the fact that first gear get-up-and-go is well provided by the naturally aspirated six-cylinder LGX.
From the looks of it, the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro also seems light on its feet when cornering. The Corvette-like flat-bottom steering wheel is another tell-tale sign the #CamaroSix is a more focused machine in terms of handling. The 200 lbs (90.7 kg) diet wasn’t a mere bluff and the adjacent video stands as proof to that.
After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well. Full profile
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