Chevrolet Camaro: All American Muscle Car?

The Chevrolet Camaro is all American all right, especially that if you consider that it has been in continuous production in America by American autoworkers since 1966 mainly as a challenge against the commercial dominance of the Ford Mustang.

The iconic Yellow Camaro – affectionately referred to as the Camaro Bumblebee – featured in the latest Transformer movie trilogy is actually a second generation Camaro that was first commercially produced in 1976. As with the first generation of its brethren, the V-8 engine of over 400-horsepower means that the Chevy Camaro is targeted squarely at muscle car enthusiasts seeking a good ratio of affordability and performance.

Even though it has a top speed of 250 kilometers per hour – which is still respectable by high performance sports car standards, the Camaro’s rather heavy weight somewhat degrades its power-to-weight ratio that rates its 0 to 100 kilometer-per-hour acceleration to 5.6 seconds. More modern supercars can do 0 to 100 kilometers per hour way less than 3 and a half seconds. And the Chevy camaro is somewhat thirsty in comparison to modern family sedans at 13 liters per 100-kilometers of fuel consumption.