They make it all better tho

LS7 and slightly different interior..

It's not a new generation of the Camaro..

 

Ikn its not a new generation but they usually update the interiors on mid cycle refreshes

 

It's about as updated as the '7th' gen Montes are, basically nothing lol

 

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Chevy drops a 500-hp bomb on the New York show: The iconic Camaro Z/28 returns! It has a 500-horse LS7 V-8 and standard carbon brakes, and curb weight is shaved by some 300 pounds over the ZL1

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<hgroup>2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28

A 500-horse LS7, standard carbon brakes, and a pared curb weight make for one mighty track missile.




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• March 2013
• BY ERIK JOHNSON

<!-- Gigya Social Share Floater -->Chevrolet’s Camaro lineup is becoming quite the haven for track-happy hooligans. It already includes the SS 1LE and one of this year’s Lightning Lap surprises, the mighty ZL1, which broke the 2:58 mark at VIR. And now comes the return of the iconic Z/28 nameplate, affixed to what GM is calling the “most track-capable Camaro ever.”
The new Z/28 packs a 500-hp, dry-sump LS7 V-8, which will operate only through a Tremec TR6060 six-speed stick and standard limited-slip diff. Besides being an awesome product-planning decision on its own, the manual-only strategy nods to the original Z/28, which was a row-your-own car developed to compete in the legendary Trans-Am races of the late 1960s. The manual gearbox is packed with the same ratios as in the ZL1, but the Z/28’s final-drive is 3.91:1 versus the ZL1’s 3.73. The engine features titanium rods and intake valves, a forged-steel crank, hydroformed exhaust headers, a 7000-rpm redline, and CNC-ported heads. It inhales through a cold-air intake and exhales via a dual-mode exhaust system with large-diameter pipes. All engine and gearbox cooling systems are standard, as they are on the ZL1.
Outside of the engine bay, the Z/28 will pack a raft of armaments meant to back up GM’s boast. That includes standard Brembo carbon-ceramic discs, a full aerodynamic package—front splitter, a lift-reducing underbody panel, flared fenders, wider rockers, rear diffuser and spoiler—and no air-conditioning system. (Ninnies can add it back in as an option.)
Weight is said to be down by some 300 pounds versus the ZL1 and 100 versus the SS, which would put it in the neighborhood of 3800 pounds. Still no flyweight, but you can’t say the Camaro engineers didn’t give it their all. Besides the A/C delete, other weight-saving measures include thinner rear glass, the use of manual front sport seats, deleting the tire-inflation kit (except where required by law), removing the interior sound deadening, tossing the trunk carpet, adopting a lighter battery, and removing HID headlamps and fog lights from consideration. There’s also no stereo. Chevy says it wanted to delete the audio system entirely, but that federal regulations required one speaker be left in the car for the seatbelt chime. The team also stripped out the unused wiring for the fog lamps, speakers, and A/C. Chevy says that the C7 Corvette fills its two-seat obligation, and so the rear seats stay. But the pass-through is gone and high-density foam has been subbed in for some of the weightier innards, so they’re nine pounds lighter.
The chassis itself incorporates almost 200 revisions, says Chevy, including stiffer dampers, stiffer springs, and stiffer bushings. So it’s stiff. The wheels measure 19 inches and weigh a total of 42 pound less than the 20s on the SS and ZL1, and all four of them are wrapped in 305/30 Pirelli P Zero Trofeo R rubber. So it’ll be sticky.
The carbon brake rotors, which saved 28 pounds themselves, measure roughly 15.4 inches at each corner although the rears are slightly smaller. They’re cooled by standard ductwork and squeezed by six-piston monoblock calipers up front and four-piston monoblocks out back. So it’ll stop. The net result is a lap time—at an unspecified track, although probably GM’s Milford, Michigan, road course—three seconds quicker than the ZL1’s.
With Ford’s redesigned, next-gen Mustang arriving next year, the Blue Oval would need to whip its pony into a gallop if it wants to keep pace: It will discontinue the highly excellent Boss 302 after 2013 and, although the Shelby GT500 is hugely powerful, it’s no one’s idea of an apex hunter.
The Z/28 will go on sale later this year, and Chevy plans to take it on a tour of track events starting this spring. Pricing has yet to be announced. We find it a little odd that Chevy keep slicing the high-performance Camaro pie into so many pieces, but, hey, we’ll take it. (We also hope the lighter, Alpha-platform next-generation Camaro proves as fertile.) As for this new Z/28, we can’t wait to thrash one at Lightning Lap VIII. View Photo Gallery



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GM Engine Plans for 2014 Appear to Include LS7 V-8 for Camaro, New Twin-Turbo V-6 Elsewhere



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What appears to be an authentic GM document outlining the company’s powertrain plans for 2014 was posted on the Camaro5 forums (and subsequently appeared on Motor Authority), and it contains some pretty juicy stuff. The big news: The 7.0-liter LS7 V-8 from today’s Chevrolet Corvette Z06—and 427 convertible—may be headed for the Camaro’s engine bay. But that’s not all: The document also indicates that the 2014 Buick Verano will ditch its base, naturally aspirated 2.4-liter four-cylinder for a turbocharged 1.6-liter four. Finally, GM is adding a twin-turbocharged, 3.6-liter V-6 to its corporate engine coffers; while it’s not tied to any specific vehicles in the paperwork, we have some ideas, so read on.
The twin-turbo six, as we’ve speculated many times already, likely will show up under the hood of the high-performance 2014 Cadillac ATS-V, as well as the next-generation CTS and Chevrolet Camaro. The next iteration of Chevrolet’s large, rear-drive SS sedan may see the twin-turbo V-6, too, and even Cadillac’s lukewarm XTS could get a transverse-optimized version. Perhaps more likely, however, is that it serves as the base engine for Cadillac’s forthcoming Omega-platform flagship, as we reported last May. One might also theorize that, should Ford continue to sell loads of EcoBoosted F-150 pickups, GM could get in on the gambit and stuff its blown six into the Chevy Silverado or GMC Sierra.
We’re not totally sold on that last bit of speculation, given that GM just spent big bucks to completely redesign its 4.3-liter V-6 for its full-size pickups. Company representatives at the launch event for the 2014 Silverado and Sierra also openly scoffed at the idea of turbocharged pickups; we suspect the reason is that they’re far less profitable. But things could change. As for the LS7-powered Camaro, our guess is that it will be a limited-production swan song for the current-generation pony car, which will be redesigned for 2016 on GM’s Alpha platform. The LS7 Camaro may be an end-of-run special, but you can bet we’re excited for its arrival.



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<hr noShade="noshade">One other intriguing entry pertains to the 2014 Chevy Sonic, whose engine portfolio appears to explode from its current two-engine lineup (a naturally aspirated 1.8-liter four and a turbo 1.4-liter four) to a whopping four engines, not counting flex-fuel versions. This comes with a large asterisk, however given that the two new engines (a non-turbo 1.6-liter four and 1.3-liter diesel four) are available in Europe, and there is an entry in the list of Sonic models for “Export non-U.S., non-Canada.” So it could be that these engines simply being lumped together with the U.S.-specific units, and not that they’re destined for our shores.
(The document has been taken down from the GM service site, but was previously available here.)
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2014 Chevrolet Camaro: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It—Much [2013 New York Auto Show]



<small class="credits">March 27, 2013 at 6:37 pm by Austin Lindberg</small>
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Debuting at the 2013 New York auto show, Chevrolet’s 2014 Camaro refresh consists of three or four relatively minor changes. But that simple statement isn’t quite fair to the people behind the bow-tie pony car. Just last year, Chevy upgraded the interiors of the entire Camaro lineup, upgraded dampers and anti-roll bars on V-8–powered models to reduce understeer, and introduced the SS 1LE package and the ZL1 convertible. Besides, the Camaro team probably had its hands full engineering the all-new 500-hp, LS7-powered Z/28 that also dropped in the Big Apple. READ MORE ››

 

Well I'll be... haha

I can see how the tails are "similar" to the 69, but I'm not that much of a fan.

 

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