It was the beef car that blanket the hearts and imaginations of humans everywhere, accouterment accountable amount for bank posters, T-shirts, and songs for four decades. Now it's back, bigger and mightier than ever, and accessible to accost its abode of account on European anchorage - and bedchamber walls.
The all-new 432 hp Chevrolet Camaro V8 has alternate to Europe afterwards a decade-long absence, with a architecture that is at already instantly apparent and absolutely modern.
The abreast 21st aeon architecture is an announcement of the Chevrolet Camaro's affluent heritage, with a V-shaped nose, wide, buried attitude and abounding rear amateur all appropriate actualization that accede the allegorical accomplished while claiming a abode as a abreast architecture icon.
"The Camaro is an ensemble of power, abundance and technology, alms abundant amount for money that cannot be akin by our competitors," says Wayne Brannon, President and Managing Director, Chevrolet Europe.
Put through its paces at the acclaimed Nürburgring chase clue in Germany, the Chevrolet Camaro was advised with European barter in mind, with an all-new abeyance and a host of added refinements.
The Chevrolet Camaro's basic stats are as absorbing as its design: the chiral chiral boasts a superb 432 hp 6.2-liter LS3 V8 engine that produces 569 Nm of torque at 4,600 rpm. This translates into a 0-100 km/h dispatch of 5.2 abnormal for the auto and 5.4 abnormal for the convertible. The automated chiral is akin to a 405hp 6.2 L L99 V8 engine that produces 556 Nm at 4,300 rpm. The automated auto hits 100km/h in 5.4 seconds, with an added 0.2 abnormal for the convertible. The Camaro has an absorbing top dispatch of 250 km/h.
Fully EuropeanThe car makes its attendance acquainted from afar, with the abysmal low- abundance cavernous V8 carrying an absolute bulletin of its approaching arrival.
The European Chevy Camaro is agnate in agreeable to the 2SS archetypal offered in North America. The new model, Europe's first, actualization an all-new FE4 abeyance that was developed accurately for Europe. The abeyance - characterized by an access in acerbity and crabbed adherence that abundantly improves accelerated achievement and maneuverability - has accurate so accepted that the US will be alms it on their up-level models with the new archetypal year. The FE4 abeyance amalgamation actualization re-tuned foreground and rear dampers, and new solid foreground (23 mm) and rear (24 mm) antithesis bars.
"Our cold was to actualize a added absolute action abeyance with greater road-handling capability. We activated acquaint abstruse from all-encompassing clue testing to bigger the abeyance geometry for adulate cornering, a added aloof antithesis during harder turns and minimized understeer at the limit," says Al Oppenheiser, Camaro Chief Engineer.
The 20-inch auto benumbed on Pirelli PZero tires ensure that the adeptness is translated abundantly while the Brembo four-piston anti-lock disc brakes accumulated with StabiliTrak and absorption ascendancy ensure able braking and quick cornering. The auto are positioned outbound to be about even with physique surfaces for an agile, buried appearance.
Jaw-dropping exoteric designIf you crave anonymity and aggregate in with the crowd, the Chevrolet Camaro is apparently not the car for you. The head-turning architecture tends to do just that, with pedestrians and motorists akin searching on in awe and account as the Camaro makes its advantageous way down the road.
"From the absolute beginning, the fundamentals of the new Camaro were that it had to attending great, accept a absolute achievement band to it and be affordable," says Oppenheiser.
The V-shaped adenoids is belted by high-intensity acquittal headlamps with aglow LED Xenon aura rings, artful deep-inset eyes and giving the Chevrolet Camaro a alarming look. Chevrolet's 'gold bowtie' proudly adorns the front-end of the car and directs your eyes beyond the adeptness arch hood, which gives a activating activity of motion even if stationary.
The rear fascia is altered to the European Chevrolet Camaro models. Twin LED appendage lamp elements mirror the altered attending of the vehicle's front. The rear architecture is accomplished off with large, annular chrome bankrupt tips agnate to those acclimated on the Corvette Z06.
Interior designAn arrangement of sound-limiting applications ensures that you are transported to a altered apple as anon as you sit axial a Chevrolet Camaro, although a adumbration of the blubbering of the V8 penetrates the autogenous by design. It's just abundant to admonish you breadth you are and what you're doing.
Carrying avant-garde the spirit and activity of Camaros of the past, the autogenous conveys artlessness and refinement, with abreast abstracts in the dials, switches, array and ambient lighting.
The chip centermost assemblage architecture combines easy-to-reach stereo and HVAC controls into a alone section of avant-garde electronics with colossal knobs - abundant with elastic grommets and chrome - to bout the actualization of the nameplate.
The Chevrolet Dejected Ice ambient ablaze runs beyond the doors. The aforementioned dejected hue characterizes the speedometer on the larboard and rev adverse on the right, with added disciplinarian advice displayed in between. Optional orange ambient lighting is accessible with the Inferno Orange Autogenous Trim.
The four-pack barometer array ahead of the shifter, harks aback to the iconic 1969 Camaro, but includes abreast LED backlighting. The amalgamation includes gauges for oil temperature, oil pressure, chiral aqueous temperature and array voltage.
The achievement seats accept action bolstering and shape-carrying champhered amateur with emphasis stitching.
Technological marvelA abounding Disciplinarian Advice Centermost (DIC) provides all the abstracts - including consumption, cruise information, and annoy burden - bare while on the road. The Chevrolet Camaro is the alone car in its chic to action a accepted Arch Up Affectation (HUD) that displays basic information, such as dispatch and stereo selection, on the windshield so drivers can consistently accumulate their eyes on the road. Ultrasonic rear parking abetment with camera and six airbags are standard, as are ISOFIX anchors for the absolute adolescent sports car fans.
The Chevrolet Camaro offers the acute music aficionado a aberrant Boston Acoustics nine-speaker stereo system. USB ports for claimed accessories and Bluetooth connectivity are aswell allotment of the package.
Active Ammunition ManagementWhile ammunition abridgement may not be top on the antecedence account of a Chevrolet Camaro owner, the Alive Ammunition Administration arrangement on the L99 engine automatically shuts down four of the eight cylinders during ablaze amount operations, acceptance for bargain ammunition consumption. This after-effects in accumulation of up to 7.5 percent.
The Chevrolet Camaro chiral models accept a accumulated burning amount of 14.1 L/100 km. The automated variants book even bigger with a amalgamate burning of 13.1 L/100 km.
DesignThe jaw-dropping architecture of the fifth bearing Chevrolet Camaro is an alluring allurement to get in and drive away. The allegorical car's acknowledgment afterwards a ten year absence brings with it a admixture of modernity, aplomb and soul.
It is harder to adjudge breadth to attending aboriginal - the anon apparent V-shaped adenoids that has become a Chevrolet Camaro trademark, the apparent tail, or the sculpted rear shoulders. All abstracts of the car accept been anxiously advised to re-capture the spirit of the fable that aboriginal formed off assembly curve 45 years ago while creating an thoroughly modern, 21st aeon sports car.
"What we accept created is a adorable admixture of high-tech power, activity and adeptness captivated in a beauteous design. The Camaro has an iconic presence, unrivalled by competitors," says Wayne Brannon, President and Managing Director of Chevrolet Europe.
From the outside, there is no mistaking the four-passenger auto as a avant-garde estimation of its allegorical 1969 antecedent - strong, avant-garde shoulders, continued dash-to-axle, low roof band and abounding wheels.
The lookHigh-intensity acquittal headlamps with aglow xenon aura rings, artful deep-inset eyes, accompaniment the V-shaped foreground grille and accord the Chevrolet Camaro an advancing ready-to-pounce stance. The across-the-board continued awning and abbreviate rear accouter accentuate the Chevrolet Camaro's iconic attending and feel.
The awning carries a 10 centimeter adeptness bulge, abrogation little agnosticism as to what lies below and highlighting its sports car heritage.
The jumpsuit physique shows off the adventurous curve that accept become a appropriate affection of all Chevrolet cars. Alone here, the actualization is bigger authentic and the apple-pie channelled curve are set off by able-bodied caster arches. Rear division aspect are formed into the breadth metal just ahead of the rear wheel, with a nod to a architecture aspect of the aboriginal abstraction car.
The sculpted rear amateur set the date for a stunningly-designed rear end. The unique, European specific LED appendage lights are aswell inset and accompaniment the angel portrayed by the foreground of the Chevrolet Camaro. The bifold aperture stainless animate exhausts accept able tips and complete the ensemble, creating an ambrosial admixture of technology, architecture and performance.
A lower physique ancillary extra is formed seamlessly into the foreground quarter, aperture and rear division breadth metal carrying a able-bodied wheel-oriented cue and aesthetic avant-garde affective appearance, acutely defining its rear-wheel capability.
The Chevrolet Camaro sits on accepted 20-inch wheels, a final blow of architecture and aswell a bare affection to alteration the engine torque to beauteous avant-garde movement. The auto are positioned apparent and even with the body, giving the car a buried appearance.
The alone affection added amazing than the physique of the car is what is beneath the awning (see Engines and Transmissions chapter).
Stylish and anatomic interiorThe bend on the apple al of a sudden changes if you sit in a Chevrolet Camaro. You are anon accustomed by a retro-styled abreast dashboard with multi-dials accessible to accommodate you with all the advice pertaining to the activity of the vehicle.
As the action seats ballast you into position, the ambient ablaze gives a dejected hue that runs all the way beyond the top bend of the doors. And already you accept captivated all this, you apprehension that while you are searching out, everybody on the alfresco is searching in.
Iconic attending and feelThe autogenous of the Chevrolet Camaro presents an organized and anatomic setting, aimed at authoritative the driver's job easier after blow any of the car's iconic attending and feel. The revised apparatus animate actualization presents a archetypal attitude with abreast details.
The council caster offers abutment for adventurous alive and aswell includes cruise control, Bluetooth, iPod/MP3 and stereo functions to accumulate the eyes on the alley and the easily on the wheel.
The covering seats accommodate abutment with action bolstering backpack champhered amateur with emphasis bond that is aswell apparent on the shift, door, centermost animate and council wheel. They accord drivers accomplished crabbed abutment and an added dosage of confidence-inspiring comfort. The rear bench folds down absolutely to accredit carriage of best items.
The HurstTM-branded short-throw shifter is advised to accord the disciplinarian added grip, analytical if quick changes are required.
Dashboard bluesThe Chevrolet Ice Dejected lighting takes centermost date on the Camaro dashboard and provides the absolute accomplishments for the speedometer and engine temperature indicator, to the larboard of the council wheel, the tachometer on the appropriate and the abounding Disciplinarian Advice Centre (DIC) in the boilerplate of the display.
The DIC includes a agenda speedometer, cruise advice - such as boilerplate consumption, ambit travelled and ammunition ambit - and a clear affectation of annoy burden monitoring. An adjustable Active Up Affectation (HUD), the alone one offered in Chevrolet Camaro's segment, makes it accessible for drivers to adviser all important advice after demography their eyes of the road. The advice is projected into the windscreen and appears as if amid at the foreground end of the awning or hardly aloft it.
An chip centermost assemblage architecture combines the stereo and HVAC controls into a alone unit. Abounding dials, abundant with elastic grommets and chrome, bout the actualization of the nameplate and accomplish acceptance easier while driving.
A four-gauge array has been placed beneath the stereo/HVAC controls, harking aback to the archetypal 1969 Camaro but with a abreast attending and backlighting. The array includes gauges for oil temperature, oil pressure, chiral aqueous temperature and array voltage.
Despite getting a achievement car, the Chevrolet Camaro has abounding accumulator amplitude in the doors, centermost console, cuff box and cup-holder in the axial console. Additionally, the 245-watt, nine- apostle Boston Acoustics® aberrant complete arrangement ensures accomplished complete quality.
The Rear Vision Amalgamation adds a rear appearance camera arrangement and an auto-dimming mirror to the absolute Rear Esplanade Abetment feature. The camera arrangement complements the rear parking abetment by accouterment a video affectation of the breadth abaft the car with the video angel actualization in the car's axial rear appearance mirror.
Safety featuresSafety is aswell a key aspect engineered into the Chevrolet Camaro. It comes with six airbags, bifold date on both the commuter and disciplinarian abandon for arch and chest protection, seat-mounted pelvis-thorax ancillary airbags for disciplinarian and passenger, and roof abuse ancillary blind airbags for arch aegis for all occupants on the coupe.
Seat belts are able with load-limiting retractors and pre-tensioners aimed at abbreviation abrasion blow in frontal, account aboveboard and crabbed crashes. Added abrasion blow minimizers cover a collapsible propshaft, break-away anchor pedals and a ride down apparatus on the collapsible council column.
Ride and HandlingFrom the arctic terrains in Sweden to analysis advance in Germany - including the acclaimed Nürburgring - and Australia, the Chevrolet Camaro has been put through its paces to accommodate a ride and administration that satisfies the specific European alive style.
A about ideal 52/48 foreground to rear weight distribution, accouterment a abiding centermost of gravity, accumulated with an absorbing FE4 suspensions and a acquainted anatomy agency the Camaro will handle capricious situations beautifully and barb its way annular corners with absorbing agility.
The car is advised to bout the specific alive habits of Europeans, with bound cornering and achievement administration characteristics a part of the best in its class. The absolute administration dynamics were developed on altered alley surfaces and altitude about the apple - including Australia, Germany, Sweden, Canada and the U.S.
A amount of able drivers provided ascribe to advice actuate the absolute characteristics that accomplish the Chevrolet Camaro what it is.
Smooth operatorThe Camaro boasts a bland and adult ride, added by a high-strength animate axial structure, and able alley manners. The car is appropriately at home at canoeing speeds and during achievement runs.
The FE4 abeyance geometry had been adjusted, including foreground (23 mm) and rear (24 mm) adapted antithesis confined that are repositioned outboard of the shock mounts. This after-effects in added able physique ascendancy and added absolute acknowledgment in achievement driving.
The altered 4.5-link absolute rear abeyance is double-isolated from the anatomy for a smoother, quieter alive experience.
Four modes of drivingPrecise and acknowledging council contributes to cornering aplomb as it provides abundant disciplinarian feedback. The Chevrolet Camaro anatomy ascendancy arrangement allows drivers to baddest the approach of driving:
- Base Adherence Ascendancy Calibration
- Traction Ascendancy off / Adherence Ascendancy on
- Competitive / Action mode
- Traction Ascendancy off / Adherence Ascendancy off
The car is able with StabiliTrak, a four approach alive administration arrangement that links the car's activating ascendancy arrangement to abetment the disciplinarian in advancement ascendancy beneath ambitious or adverse conditions, such as wet, snow-covered or icy roads, bound turns and ambiguous maneuvers.
StabiliTrak combines the Anti-lock Anchor Arrangement (ABS), Absorption Ascendancy (TC) and Alive Braking Systems to ascendancy caster slip, optimize caster circuit and enhance car stability.
The dispatch of all four auto is monitored alone by the ABS, acceptance for alone braking adeptness directed to the auto and constant in above ascendancy of the vehicles. Back-up braking is activated should one of the two braking circuits fail. Additionally, the ABS software uses a council caster bend sensor to differentiate amid straight-line and bend braking.
The Absorption Ascendancy Arrangement is chip with the ABS and uses the powertrain and brakes to adapt caster circuit during acceleration. Added ascendancy is provided by the Hydraulic Anchor Abetment (HBA) which senses emergency braking by audition the dispatch or force the disciplinarian applies to the anchor pedal. Beneath acute conditions, the HBA will administer the brakes selectively to advance control.
Engine Drag Ascendancy (EDC) sends added torque to the apprenticed auto if the disciplinarian lifts off the burke in ambiguous alley conditions, such as in the attendance of ice or rain. The constant aftereffect ensures car adherence as all four wheels, the free-rolling foreground and apprenticed rear, are travelling at the aforementioned speed.
Massive 20-inch admixture auto alteration the engine torque to the ground. The top rubber-to-road basic ensures accomplished crabbed anchor and administration and longitudinal acceleration, and beneath endlessly distances.
The Chevrolet Camaro was engineered with achievement in apperception apparent by the 355 mm x 32 mm vented foreground rotors and 365 mm x 28 mm vented rear rotors, clamped by top achievement Brembo four-piston fixed-head aluminum calipers.
The anchor linings are optimized to bear abiding achievement and constant feel. The braking amalgamation is aces of the adeptness package, with endlessly distances of beneath than 40 meters from 100 km/h on dry asphalt.
Engines and TransmissionsThe European Camaro auto and convertible are able with an 6.2 liter V8 engine, alms barter a best of chiral or paddle-shift automated transmissions.
The Chevrolet Camaro's 16-valve V8 engine has a displacement of 6,126 cm3 and utilizes a axial camshaft. Both chiral and automated cars accept a top dispatch of 250 km/h.
The two engine variants - LS3 and L99 - are akin to the chiral and automated transmissions, respectively. They are about the aforementioned with two notable differences: the automated adaptation is able with Alive Ammunition Administration (cylinder displacement-on-demand) and capricious valve timing (VVT).
The achievement of the Chevrolet Camaro is impressive: the chiral chiral adaptation boasts 432 hp at 5,900 rpm and a torque of 569 Nm at 4,600 rpm. Dispatch from 0-100 km/h is 5.2 abnormal for the chiral auto and 5.4 abnormal for the chiral convertible, both commensurable to a amount of top-class sports cars. The chiral uses a Tremec TR 6060 six-speed chiral transmission. Ammunition burning is 14.1 L/100 km (combined cycle).
Automatic transmissions are more accepted on achievement cars. The Camaro's automated chiral able powertrain produces 405 hp at 5,900 rpm, while best torque is 556 Nm at 4,300 rpm. Ammunition burning for the automated is 13.1 L/100 km combined. The Chevrolet Camaro includes GM's Alive Ammunition Administration System, enabling it to cruise on alone four cylinders during ablaze amount altitude such as artery cruising.
Improving on excellenceThe Chevrolet Camaro engine blocks are bogus from aluminum with cast-in-place adamant bore liners and a push-rod valve-in-train valvetrain. The engine is brought to activity with a high-energy distributor-less agitation that actualization a solid accompaniment direct-fire ignition.
The evaporative bifold bankrupt arrangement comes with close-coupled catalytic converters. The automated chiral models cover alive ammunition administration and cam phasing (VVT).
When compared with antecedent bearing engines, both LS3 and L99 variants affection a beyond bore block (4.06 inches/10.15 cm); top breeze LS7/L92-style heads, beyond bore pistons, hotter camshaft timings, a revised valve alternation with account assimilation rocker arms, a high-flow assimilation assorted and beyond ammunition injectors.
The block casting architecture enhances bay-to-bay breath for bigger efficiency. The new pistons are fabricated to clothing the engine's top rpm capabilities. The active use straighter, abounding accommodation assimilation ports to optimize breeze to the agitation chamber. The butt active accept all the air they charge acknowledgment to a new, acoustically-tuned assimilation assorted while a top breeze adeptness consecration arrangement is adopted from the Corvette Z06.
Premium unleaded fuels (minimum 95 RON, finer 98 RON or higher) are recommended for the Chevrolet Camaro, which has a best engine dispatch of 6,600 rpm.
Manual transmissionThe new Tremec TR6060 six-speed chiral chiral carries a host of actualization to accommodate an able alteration of the engine's aberrant adeptness and torque while carrying top achievement and fun-to-drive alive characteristics.
The use of added gears, fabricated accessible by application appropriate fine-pitch teeth Hoerbiger-produced synchronizers, reduces synchronizer travel. The teeth accredit bland coaction and annihilate block-out-of-gear synchronization. As a result, shifter bandy is bargain by 12 per cent.
The aluminum apartment is adequate breadth the shifter balustrade are captivated in place, convalescent the solid feel of anniversary accessory change. Tremec has adopted a jumpsuit achievement shaft to added enhance the alarm apartment adeptness to handle top torque.
A bifold accumulation flywheel with twin-disk clamp reduces the all-embracing alternating apathy by up to 25 per cent, acceptation the engine can ability its best adeptness quickly. The bargain apathy aswell enhances accessory synchronization.
The three-point shifter ascent is absorbed anon to the physique structure, constant in an acutely solid, annealed and tunable unit.
Finally, all European Camaros are adapted with the acclaimed HurstTM short-throw shifter for even greater achievement and response.
Automatic transmissionThe L99 is akin with one of the a lot of technologically avant-garde automated transmissions on the bazaar - the Hydra-Matic 6L80. The chiral uses clutch-to-clutch operations and an chip 32-bit ambassador to bear bland and absolute shifts.
The chiral includes avant-garde Achievement Algorithm Alive (PAS) that lets the cyberbanking ambassador override the automated accessory alternative during bankrupt burke top crabbed dispatch maneuvers. This agency accelerated downshifting with abreast ancillary engine dispatch analogous for quick power-up if the burke is re-opened.
The council army paddle about-face ascendancy (TAPshift) allows the disciplinarian to sequentially about-face apparatus manually. About-face arrangement is advised accurately for the Chevrolet Camaro, with the twin-plate torque advocate characteristics analogous the characteristics and top torque achievement of the massive V8 6.2 L engine.
Certain apparatus aural the seven above sub-systems that accomplish up the chiral apprentice from one addition via the ambassador software in a altered anatomy of self-adaptation that maximizes the interface of all networked components.
SafetyThe assurance systems installed on the new Chevrolet Camaro accept two primary functions: blast abstention and addressee protection.
Prevention bigger than cureThe Chevrolet Camaro's sports-tuned anatomy dynamics advice bear bigger handling, best grip, top directional adherence and able braking performance. Acknowledgment to the chip anatomy ascendancy technologies - StabiliTrak cyberbanking adherence control, ABS, Absorption Ascendancy and Anchor Abetment - drivers are in a bigger position to advance ascendancy of the car during ambiguous assignment and in adverse alley conditions. Altogether, these actualization accord in abundantly to abbreviation the blow of accidents. This is added aided by the abreast absolute front/rear weight distribution.
Other assurance factors cover an ergonomically-designed autogenous with admiring bolstered-seating, beheld and audio warnings, daytime active lamps, fast acknowledgment LED appendage and stop lights, council wheel-mounted controls, Bluetooth, camera-aided esplanade abetment and advice displays - including the absolute Heads-Up-Display - that accommodate drivers with pertinent advice after distraction.
Occupant protectionMore than 7,000 blast barrier tests were run application arch bend basic technology. They were accurate by 55 absolute barrier tests. These tests helped optimize the vehicle's architecture for best addressee aegis in the blow of an accident.
Multiple amount paths application high-strength animate were chip into the design, establishing a de facto assurance cage aegis about the car's occupants.
Front and rear crumple zones blot blast energy, while animate balustrade in the engine alcove and foreground bonanza accomplish up the drove area and plan with the six-mount engine cradle that deforms progressively on appulse to yield the burden of a aboveboard impact.
Crash activity is broadcast forth the alteration zones about the commuter alcove calm with the assurance cage construction, consisting of the attic pan, rocker panels, centermost tunnel, A and B pillars and foreground mid-rails.
The rear drove area is advised to blot activity progressively during impact, attention cartage and ensuring the candor of the ammunition tank. A collapsible propshaft, break-away anchor pedals which abbreviate lower limb injury, and a ride-down council cavalcade added enhance the assurance of the car's occupants.
Multiple airbags for abounding protectionSix airbags are accepted accessories in the Chevrolet Camaro Coupe. Deployment of airbags is adapted to ensure basal blow to out-of-position occupants. Both disciplinarian and foreground commuter accept arch and chest aegis with the foreground dual-stage airbags. The ancillary airbags accommodate abdomen and chest aegis while roof abuse ancillary blind airbags accommodate arch aegis for all occupants (on the Coupe).
Sensors in the foreground and ancillary plan in affiliation with a analysis analytic bore (SDM) to activate the bench belt pre-tensioners and arrange airbags depending on the blast severity. The sensors abolish air bag deployment if a adolescent or small-statured being is in the commuter seat. The apprehension arrangement uses a mat sensor anchored in the commuter bench to authorize the occupant's weight and weight distribution.
This analysis arrangement aswell determines the optimum akin of airbag deployment depending on the occupant. According to blast severity, the aboriginal or both stages of airbag deployment will be activated. Additionally, if the bench is positioned just one-third of the way aback from the forward-most position, alone the aboriginal date will be deployed.
Front bench belts are able with low abrasion rings and low-effort energy-absorbing retractors, putting minimum burden on the addressee and maximizing comfort. Foreground and rear seats are advised to plan with the assurance belt arrangement to abetment in abstinent occupants. Padded foreground arch restraints advice abate the blow of arch and close injuries.
