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Originally Posted by Camaro2ss2013
I know I'm going to get flamed for this post but its my honest opinion. I found a good deal on a new 2013 Camaro ZL1 (30 miles on it) so i went to go look at it. When I pulled up a salesman came out and said yea we have it here its around back getting washed. Long story short he brought it around and threw the keys at me and said lets go for a ride. When I got in I said I'm going to put it through its paces. He looked at me laughed and said drive it how you want. I turned the traction control off and right out of the lot I had a quarter mile to the light with no one around so I floored it and ran through the gears. I was expecting to be pushed back in the seat and have perma grin from the extra horses. Instead it was a total let down. It didn't feel like it had much more power than my SS. We then took it around some corners with speed and I could tell that the suspension was better than my SS but not all that much. If I could have tracked the car my opinion may have been different. We were on a public road so I could only push it so far. I did like the transmission that was in the car. It just felt better changing gears and was a lot shorter shifts than my SS. Needless to say I went to test drive it with all intentions of trading mine in on it but I left with my SS.
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By the sounds of it, you have finally gotten the hang of your 2013 2SS. I know you were having a little
trouble getting the tires to spin at 10MPH with Stability and Traction control off, but it sounds like after 1300 or so miles since May, you have really started to bond with it. Congratulations, it's a beautiful car.
By the way, is this the ZL1 you test drove?
Victory Red, Manual, Sunroof, Nav, Microfiber Package. There aren't that many 2013 ZL1's around, so it's not too hard to figure out where they are. I'm tempted to take this one out for a test drive myself to see what all the hubub is about. It probably has a lot more miles on it by now from your's and other folks test drives. They might just be peddling a Lemon.