2015 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28

You cannot catch the 2015 Z/28 through the curves in any production car under $100k. period! This is a very specialized car. not your typical daily driver. Read below for a complete review from Car and driver. Also check the videos on the website (ethyls garage dot com). Not everyone can buy a car like this and not just anyone should. Retail on the Z was $76k new and aside from the couple of thousand miles I have driven it. it is new. Also included in the sale is one set of blacked out tail lights new in the box.  Buyer's option to black out the tail lights or keep them stock. Don't miss out!

Will consider trades of a 1970 Chevelle with complete restoration or a 50's or 60's Corvette. Otherwise this will be a cash sale. I have clean CO title in hand. come get this nasty beast!

CAR and DRIVER wrote:
It's a serious track car--more than 300 pounds lighter than a ZL1--powered by a 505-hp 7. 0-liter V-8 mated to a six-speed manual. With a unique suspension and 19-inch wheels. it hugs the track like a lover. pulling more than 1. 0 g on the skidpad and lapping the Nurburgring faster than a new Porsche 911. It's not designed for the street--even A/C is optional--and availability is limited. This Z/28 has air!

With a 7. 0-liter V-8. carbon-ceramic brakes. damper technology borrowed from Formula 1. and the widest front tires on a production car. Chevy's Camaro Z/28 is a Boss 302 fighter raised on growth hormones and testosterone.

Plucked from GM's last track-day ­special. the 2013 Corvette Z06. the Z/28's port-injected LS7 V-8 is fortified with new pistons and titanium connecting rods whose bearing inserts are now spray-coated for improved durability. There are also a cold-air intake. revised exhaust headers. and a repackaged dry-sump oiling system. but there's more hardware that's carry-over than new under the hood. This Z produces 505 horsepower and 481 pound-feet of torque.

Just as it did back then. the LS7 oozes power whether the Z/28 is standing still or at speed. The car quakes under a loping idle as heat radiates from the carbon-fiber extractor and blurs the view through the windshield. Racing toward a 7000-rpm redline. the Z/28 smears Barber's manicured landscaping as if it were a still-wet watercolor. while the exhaust's raucous bawl ­rattles the cabin. Zero to 60 mph passes in 4. 4 seconds. and the quarter-mile clears in 12. 7. by which time you're doing 116 mph. True. the Z/28 isn't as quick as the ZL1 in a straight line. but that's not the point.

The six-speed manual transmission shared with the Camaro SS 1LE is geared for road-course duty. with closer ratios passed through a shorter 3. 91:1 final drive. Shifts are heavy and stiff. and the pedals are spaced a toe's-width too far apart for easy heel-and-toe action. The substantial displacement of the naturally aspirated V-8 compensates with a low end that's nearly as forceful as its top end is intense. We work over Barber using third and fourth gears and every rev between 3000 and 7000 rpm.

The Pirelli P Zero Trofeo Rs are essentially street-legal racing tires so tacky that. during development testing. they occasionally stuck to the pavement better than to the wheels they were mounted on. To keep the Pirellis from slipping around the rim. the wheels on production Z/28s are media-blasted to increase friction at the mating surface. a common practice in racing.

The massive front tires are the same size as the rears. a remedy first used on the 1LE to address the Camaro SS's penchant for understeer. Here. though. the rubber is sized up to 305/30 and mounted on smaller. lighter 19-inch forged aluminum wheels. When warm. the tires stick to the pavement like four wads of melted Wrigley's. In Barber's long. mid-speed corners we saw as much as 1. 06 g of lateral stick. despite a damp track and temperatures struggling to top 40 degrees. The Z/28 is neutral and responsive at the limits. and the Torsen-type limited-slip differential prudently doles out power on corner exit. The flat-bottom steering wheel has the same heft and on-center sharpness as the Camaro ZL1's. Unfortunately. it lacks the stimulating feedback experienced in the best sports cars.

The cross-drilled carbon-ceramic brake discs are clamped by six-piston front and four-piston rear calipers that bite just as hard after 50 minutes of lapping as they do on the first laps. From 70 mph. they haul the Z/28 to a stop in 155 feet.

There are. of course. stiffer springs and bushings. and the downsized wheels allowed engineers to drop the center of gravity by 1. 3 inches and use smaller and lighter anti-roll bars. The cornerstones of the suspension are four spool-valve dampers. a technology used by Red Bull Racing as it claimed four Formula 1 championships between 2010 and 2013. Until now. the closest these shocks have come to a production car is Aston Martin's $1. 8-million One-77.

Spool-valve dampers don't use electronic components or magnetic fluid. and they are neither driver-adjustable nor adaptable to road conditions. Instead. the spool valve's merit lies in tailor-shaped internal ports that improve the precision and effective range available to engineers as they tune the shocks. They work magnificently. The Z/28 transitions from left to right to braking and acceleration with nearly imperceptible load transfer. It is stoic and stable as it bounds over the curbing and hunkers into hard braking through the tight corkscrew of Barber's eighth and ninth turns. On the road. firm doesn't mean harsh. either. As we bomb over a bridge deck that is set two inches above the road that abuts it. I tense in anticipation of a jarring impact--it never materializes.

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