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Three cars, 2235 brake horsepower combined
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and a mere $300,000 for the lot.
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Welcome, my friends, to America.
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The Corvette ZR1 is quite possibly the angriest car ever.
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At its heart lies the LT5 6.2 litre V8,
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producing a 755 horsepower,
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thanks to a 2.7 litre Eaton supercharger.
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The numbers really are extraordinary,
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none more so than the $130,000 price tag,
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because that means it offers similar performance
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to the McLaren 720S for under half the price.
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First things first, you can get an eight-speed auto with this car,
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but you can also get a seven-speed manual
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and I'm pleased to report that we have the seven-speed manual here.
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How absurd is a manual gearbox these days in a 755 horsepower car.
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Time now to state the obvious.
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This car is biblically, almost painfully fast,
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up to 4,000 RPM or so.
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It's much like the Z06, but beyond that, well...
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Why don't I just demonstrate?
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It just...
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It just likes the afterburners... and flies.
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This is the point where most racing drivers claim
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that turning everything off is the best way
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to yield the most fun and the lowest lap times
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But Chevy's engineer's claim, even with Lewis behind the wheel,
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it's faster with the performance traction management system switched on.
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And who am I to argue, so, right now we're in track mode
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and quite frankly, I'm glad the safety blanket
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because despite our sticky rubber, despite all this aero that's on our side,
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you can feel this car wanting to break traction all the time.
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There is more to this car than just endless power
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and a massive, massive engine, though.
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There's some finesse here, too, especially the brakes,
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enormous Brembo carbon ceramic discs.
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Now, Corvette claim this car will stop
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from 212 miles an hour to a standstill in about eight seconds.
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I'm not going to do 212 miles an hour, but I can demonstrate what they mean.
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Yep, yep, those work.
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The truth with this car is that the standard C7 Corvette
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is a really, really well sorted car,
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so, Chevrolet was going to have to go some to mess this one up.
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And they haven't at all.
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This car is mind-scramblingly good.
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But it isn't your only option if you're in the market
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for a Chevrolet that eats racetracks for breakfast.
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This is the 650 horsepower Camaro ZL1,
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powered by the same LT4 supercharged V8 you get in the Corvette Z06
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and fitted here with the hardcore 1LE pack.
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Only available with a six-speed manual, it adds a bigger front splitter and wing.
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New appropriately-named Goodyear Eagle F1 supercar tyres
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and some extremely trick lightweight Multimatic dampers
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that can be adjusted for camber and ride height,
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so, you can dial in your perfect track setup,
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using your favourite spec.
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How could anyone drive this car and think: "I know what I need,
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another 100 horsepower, like you get in the Corvette"?
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But full throttle in this car...
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Well, it's still a bit like being punched in the face... in a good way, of course.
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Now, it's not a small car, this. You've got seats in the back.
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It weighs over 1,700 kilograms. It's big. It's brutal.
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Throwing it around is a physical experience,
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so you might think, on a racetrack, it would all start to unravel...
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but you'd be wrong because that's where this 1LE package really comes alive.
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It's so positive. Turning is so immediate.
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If you needed proof of just how fast this car is around the track
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well, it's done a lap of the Nürburgring in seven minutes and 16 seconds.
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That's in the big boy leagues.
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And boy, can you feel it.
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It's the least powerful car here, but feels like the fastest.
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Although the Corvette will probably haul it in on the straights.
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For anyone that thinks American cars can't handle corners,
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I invite you to try one of these.
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The thing is you don't have to have this fully spec car.
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You can have the 1LE track package, with the non-supercharged Camaro SS,
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less power, potentially more fun to throw around.
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It all comes down to honesty.
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How are you honestly going to use your car?
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Do you prefer the track or do you prefer the road?
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Or do you prefer the dragstrip?
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Meet the Dodge Demon, a car designed specifically to pull a wheelie
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and smash the quarter mile in under ten seconds.
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It takes a Challenger Hellcat and fits a bigger supercharger,
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new pistons and crankshaft, a higher rev limit,
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higher flow fuel injectors, wider track, 18-inch drag radial tires
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and a beefed-up transmission and drivetrain.
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This is the world's fastest production car... for $85,000
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The big surprise here is that
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despite this car being so focused on the drag strip
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it's not actually that much of a pig to drive when you get on the track.
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There's a couple of reasons for that. Number one is
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these massive 315 section Nitto drag radial tires.
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They actually give you loads and loads of grip.
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And the other is the adaptive Bilstein dampers,
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so you can have it all roly-poly in street mode,
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like a proper old-school muscle car,
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or you can tighten things right up in sport.
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Now, this thing does weigh over two tons so, it is... it's quite sizable,
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but it can be hustled around, as I said earlier,
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at quite outrageous speeds and just listen to that engine.
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It just squeals away...
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snorts away... and generally misbehaves.
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I can honestly say I don't think I'll ever get bored of that.
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But none of this, of course is the Dodge Demon's party piece.
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For that we need a prepped drag strip and our skinny front tyres.
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which we don't have, but what we do have is a straight.
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So, I'm going to stop here.
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If I hit this button here, that gives us the full 840 horsepower.
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It knows that we have 100 octane fuel in the car.
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Next we hit the SRT button and go into drag mode.
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There we go, drag mode activating systems check.
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Trans brake feature access by pulling back both paddles.
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Foot on the brake. Increase engine speed.
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Release one pedal.
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Release brake pedal.
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Well, that was interesting.
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This car produces so much torque that honestly, on this surface,
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well, it just overwhelms the rear tyres.
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But you can feel the fury of this thing, spilling out of every pore.
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Nought to 60 in 2.3 seconds.
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Do you know what? You can keep your Tesla P100D.
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How on earth I'm supposed to choose between three cars that are so good
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at what they're supposed to be good at, I'm not really sure,
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but I've made a decision and this is the way it goes.
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The first to fall is the Corvette. Don't get me wrong.
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It offers obscene amounts of performance for relative buttons,
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but there is a bit of a whiff of midlife crisis about it.
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Next to fall, it pains me to say, is the Dodge Demon.
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I absolutely love this car.
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I love its single-minded focus on its mission statement
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and then how thoroughly they've done the engineering to make it happen.
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Let's face it, it's the coolest car here, by an absolute mile.
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But the only car I can actually imagine using in Europe and working for me
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is this one, the ZL1 1LE.
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It is amazing on track. It's usable on road.
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It's to be mentioned in the same breath of the 911 GT3 RS.
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That's not an overstatement.
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And let's not forget, this is half the price of the Porsche.
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That's just astonishing