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Originally Posted by oortcloud

I'd take you up on that bet for any amount of money. If you'll watch the video again, you'll see that they test the cars for 2 days. Do you really think they only ran 2 laps consecutively? But I guess since you didn't see all 2 days of footage, you won't believe that either.

The boss was dominated there. And it was virtually all in the corners not the straights.

Even though the zl1 dominated in the corners, you're going to mumble something about heat soak. And even though the 302 has inferior brakes, you going to mention how important brake fade will become.

I have to disagree.

Originally Posted by 97SS

Its funny to see most ZL1 fans here, state that the ZL1 is such a good handling car, or its made for the road course.

I'll re-post this again. I was at the track (Buttonwillow), last week, and there was a brand new Black ZL1 (owner is a member here), who previously owned a modified Camaro SS and a Z06, that he regulary tracked and auto x'd.

In his OWN words, he was VERY dis-appointed with the ZL1's performance at Buttonwillow. Especially being passed by stock Boss 302's. The best times he had that day, was 1:59 and a 2:01. The car started to suffer from the Heat, by the end of the day. The stock Boss 302's were doing 1:54's, and an owner with a stock LS with slicks, was running 1:50's. He thought (and I did as well), that the ZL1 was going to be a Track owners dream with a warranty. However, it still has the same understeer issues, the Camaro SS has.

I talked to the owner of the 2013 Boss 302, in which is was his first time out on a track (ouch). I had my high hopes for the ZL1 as well, but it is what it is. Hopefully GM comes back with a vengeance.

Like some of Mopar's products, the ZL1 is cool car, but when compared to others (regarding performance) - There are much better examples.

From this site.