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Originally Posted by 1QwikZ28
Not they can't, otherwise the ZL1 would have matched the GT500's power output. GM still can't top the Trinity levels, but the Corvette will have a better chance of doing it long before the Camaro does....and we all know the Camaro will never top the Corvette's hp rating. Carry on...
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It EXCEEDED the GT500 output, when engineering finalization on THAT program was signed off. 580 to 540, remember? And THEN Camaro spent their development dollars on something that SHOCKED the world, positively: something called
Z/28.
Since then, Gen-6 is being FULLY attended to.
Chrysler, meanwhile, has NO NEW CHASSIS in sight, and they're stuck with a 2-Ton+ Tony, and plunging car sales, generally. How to generate headlines...and traffic?
707HP! Which will ultimately move Charger-Challenger sales enough to only wither SLIGHTLY when the new-Gen Mustang and Camaro come to market, instead of fully decimating Sergio's tanks.
Ford? Ford read the not-too-difficult-to-read-tea-leaves, saw a warmed-over LSA producing a very close weight-to-power rating imminent in the Camaro (their most-feared and sales-leading competitor), spent some dough on a hopped-up bullet, hobbled with 6-Speed-only and Pep Boys tires (after all, when you spend all the shekels under the HOOD, there's not much left to go elsewhere for "under-$60K", the ZL1 price), and, unknowingly created an easily-duplicated playbook for DODGE!
As to Camaro playing "second fiddle" to Corvette, TWO points:
1) Can you buy, now, a COPO Corvette?
2) Do you think Chrysler did the Viper any GOOD when they equip their taxi cab with MORE straight line capability, for HALF the price, than their "true" halo?