With all due respect, the V6 Camaro, as impressive as it is in HP, desperately lacks torque. It might have like 5 more hp than the LS1, but the LS1 has like 60 more ft lbs of TQ. Also, the V6 Camaro bone stock is a mid 14 second car. That hardly qualifies it as a "Muscle Car" by today's standards. Another thing, the V6 itself is not a Muscle Car because people do not buy it for performance...it is bought because it is cheaper than the SS, it qualifies for cheaper insurance, and it gets better gas mileage. If someone wanted a car strictly for performance, and the car had to be a Camaro, they would not choose the V6 option unless they could not afford the SS. Not saying this to cut on the V6, just putting things in perspective.
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Originally Posted by benji276289
It's not. J/K...the Camaro V6 is as powerful or more powerful than any American muscle car in history from about 1973 until the midpoint of this century's first decade.
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The 70s saw lots of restrictions on the power output of cars. Manufacturers at that point only had like a decade or so of making cars and none of the technology that we have at our disposal these days. So you can't really compare the 70s (which was 30 some years ago anyway) to now. The 80s saw fuel introduction becoming standard. Again, this hurt performance due to lack of technology and experience. Now the 90s, take a 93 LT1 Camaro and run it against a 5th Gen V6 and that LT1 will win easily even tho it has less hp. Why? Less tq and lighter body. As far as the mid 2000s, the only V8 a Camaro with a V6 can keep up with is a convertible automatic 99-04 Mustang GT. Even then its a driver's race. And you're still comparing against a 10+ year old car.
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Originally Posted by rscheff3
2013 Camaro V6:
-323 HP
-6 speed manual
-0-60 5.x
-top speed (electronically limited) 155
-lateral gs 0.92
2010 Mustang GT:
-315 HP
-5 speed manual
-0-60 5.x
-top speed (drag limited) 151
-lateral gs 0.95
If the Camaro V6 isn't a muscle/sports car then mustang gt wasn't a muscle/sports car until 2011...
Unless of course you just define muscle car by number of cylinders and noise but if that's the case then it's a total crap shoot. How many loud V8s are out there?
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Yea and stock to stock a 2005 - 2010 Mustang GT will walk a newer V6 Camaro in the quarter and on a roll-on. And your V6 Camaro is not pulling 0.92 lateral G's stock.