📰 Auto News SEMA Preview: Chevrolet Camaro Z28, is that you?

[Mook]

How 2009 is this? Not only are you looking at what we're 99.99% sure is the brand spankin' new Chevrolet Camaro Z28, but we got sent the picture via Facebook. Pretty viral (or whatever), right? Also, that Z28 is sitting on the floor at SEMA, and there's an entire posse of us Autoblog types heading out to Sin City so we will be up close and way too personal with this bad-mutha Chevy shortly.

While no one actually has details yet, we're 99.99% sure again that if this is the Z28, then there's an LSA under yonder hood. To refresh your memory, an LSA is the same engine that powers the very, very mighty Cadillac CTS-V. How mighty? 556 hp and 551 lb-ft of torquage. Not quite as brute as the ZR1's LS9 (638 hp, 604 lb-ft of torque), but then what is? Will the Chevy get every one of the Caddy's ponies? Most likely not quite. The Z28 will probably be slightly detuned so as to preserve some sort of outdated, century-old General Motors pecking order that no one outside of Detroit boardrooms has cared about in fifty years. We keep hearing "just" 550 hp. But again, maybe not.

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[Riski]

maybe....

 

[Riski]

for 60k!

 

[Turk]

$60,000 Camaro? Jason05GT might want it.

 

[Riski]

the SS isover 40k so it would not be hard it believe

 

[jason05gt]

$60,000 Camaro? Jason05GT might want it.

Not for 60K. It looks really nice though.

 

[Bru]

the SS isover 40k so it would not be hard it believe

MSRP for the SS starts just under $31k.

 

[Riski]

so somewhere in 50k range for the Z28 then?

 

[Bru]

Probably. CTS-V is $60k and it has a lot more quality and gadgets than the Camaro likely will. They priced the SS surprisingly low, so we'll see how this stacks up.

 

[Riski]

dealer mark up will crest the 60k mark

 

[Yaj Yak]

lol @ thinking this will be 60k... cts-vs are 60k

edit... lotsa beatin me to it.

 

[Runtz52]

dealer mark up will crest the 60k mark

dealers can be talked down, especially now

 

[Rebel]

In for more pics.

 

[Mook]

foiled again

Sorry folks, I am not the on-again, off-again Camaro Z28, but if you want a hint on who made me, my dad gets no ratings and he'll be towing me to Cars and Coffee with an EcoJet.

 

[KaMaSuTrA]

LENOWNED!

 

[Bru]

LENOWNED!

 

[Mook]

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What do you get the guy who has everything? For SEMA 2009, GM decided to go with the less-is-more approach and built Jay Leno his own special Camaro... with less. Less cylinders at any rate, as this V6 special more than makes up for its lack of firing pots by adding a pair of turbochargers.

The 3.6-liter direct-injected V6 is otherwise similar to the unit that resides in run-of-the-mill Camaro LS and LT models, but with the dual huffers helping it, it produces the same 425 horsepower as its V8-propelled SS brother. And in a playful EcoBoasting slap, Chevy points out that they get the extra performance with virtually no penalty in fuel economy. Take that, rumored EcoBoost Mustang!

Besides the power upgrades, the Leno Camaro also gets a beefed up clutch for its six-speed transmission, an upgraded radiator, Brembo brakes, a Pedders coil-over kit, and a bodykit that includes a new rear diffuser as well as a revised front fascia and hood with additional venting for brakes and engine. It's one of a handful of Camaros in the GM booth, but it's the only one sticking its chin out, egging on the Ford boys.

 

[Yaj Yak]

thaaaaaaaaats what i want. fuck yeah.