Chevrolet Camaro V-6 2016
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| Chevrolet Camaro V-6 2016 |
Here was the moment the Camaro sealed its win in this quasi-comparison test: I was in the Mustang, cruising along on a slow portion of our 10Best testing roads behind executive online editor Erik Johnson in the Camaro. When the road opened up, Johnson floored the throttle. I followed suit. And I was treated to the full immersion experience that is the Chevy’s exhaust. Our test Camaro came with the optional two-mode exhaust, which opens up butterfly valves and cranks the volume in response to heavy throttle. Because the Mustang is pretty much just as fast as the Camaro, I could hang with Johnson and listen as the Camaro’s combustion song rose to its tremulous highs somewhere around the engine’s 6800-rpm power peak.
Right at the upper edge of revs, the Camaro’s exhaust begins to resonate at a frequency that makes your ears feel as if they’re stuffed with cotton. It calls to mind the audio of old sports-car-racing footage where the microphones would become overwhelmed by the noise. Each upshift restarts the song, a rising ripsaw until the exhaust system and your ears can’t accept it anymore. Then a moment of relief, then another rising ripsaw. We could listen to this auditory tension-and-release sequence all day.
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| Chevrolet Camaro V-6 Interior |
The EcoBoost has its work cut out for it against the Camaro’s new direct-injected V-6, which is a harlot of an engine; smooth enough for polite company but nasty when you want it to be. We’ve run a six-cylinder Camaro to 60 mph in as little as 5.1 seconds, but even at 5.5 seconds in this test, the V-6 is probably only about a second slower to that mark than the Camaro SS with its stonking 455-hp 6.2-liter V-8 (when equipped with a manual transmission). And that might be the ultimate measure of the two middle-rung cars we’ve tested here: How often while driving one of them would you regret not having purchased the V-8? The answer is, in the case of the Camaro, not very often. In the Mustang the answer would be always.
The sensory experience is paramount in performance cars. In that context, a good naturally aspirated engine has a built-in advantage. That the Camaro’s chassis and seats and steering and turn-in response are better than the Mustang’s makes awarding the win to the Chevy all the more easy. Also, mustard. Source By caranddriver.com
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