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Falcon of the desert

To be driving Chevrolet Camaro is always cool. We lit in the desert, as well as on the highways and streets of Dubai, to understand what Camaro is waiting for in Russia

The desert to the horizon, an empty highway with excellent asphalt, 400 horses under the hood, incomparable murmur V8 and Jimmy Hendrix from the speakers what could be better? A complete feeling of freedom! You feel like a free bird. It is a pity that in Russia, where Camaro will appear in the spring, there are no deserts

Any muscular car child of vice. Blinking at the time when Sex, Drugs, RockNroll were the motto of generations, the maskl-kars were incredibly powerful, monstrously voracious and defiantly cool. After the onset of oil crises, their life turned into existence. But, it seems, the spirit of freedom is again in price. The fifth generation Camaro is what a real muscular car should be. Look at this nose, like a bird of prey, at these deeply planted evil headlights, on this flattened silhouette, good, devil!

It was not by chance that I remembered the birds of prey: the Khol-Khashin is one of the symbols of the UAE, where the test drive was held. It is interesting that the falcons do not live in the Persian Gulf. But cunning Arabs captivated animals flying to the winter in Africa, tamed them and made their assistants in the hunt.

Chevrolet Camaro in the Emirates is the same stranger as the falcon. Red turns from behind and orange in front give out a stranger in the compartment. The thing is that the Arabs allowed to legally sell in their country all cars that have American or European certification. That is why in Dubai you can see almost any Americans and Europeans.

Falcon is one of the youngest birds in the world. The ancestors of modern falcons appeared no more than 10 million years ago and practically did not evolve. Camaro has also become modern recently. In fact, the current car is the first completely new Camaro since the debut of the car in 1966! The second generation car was a carefully modified and brought to mind the first generation version, which was created in a hurry, and the machines of the third and fourth generations became a deep modification of the 1970 machine. The bridge behind, the lower eights, primitive machines, which received the fourth step only in the 90s

Fortunately, our hero is not like that. The current Camaro, like a falcon, does not just quickly fly in a straight line. He knows how to turn, and turn as fast as not many can. In general, the Renaissance of Camaro caused the effect of an exploding bomb in the world of muscular machines. Independent rear suspension, modern upper aluminum engines, a 6-speed automatic machine, Brembo brakes like all this was not like Mustang with its bridge, a manual transmission from a truck and elderly engines. Think about it, V6 on Chevrolet issued as much as V8 on Ford!

Roman Rusinov, motorcade
In 1964, Ferdinand Porsche introduced one of his most famous cars, we are all known to Porsche 911. Two years later, he debuted the equally legendary Chevrolet Camaro car. From a technical point of view, he was inferior to a German car. But this is in the past: the new car took the best from its predecessors.

The courage of designers and, at the same time, restraint and commitment to traditions led to a stunning result. Aggressive and at the same time thoroughbred exterior allowed the car to instantly win the market. The design of the salon was also performed in the best traditions of the brand, the quality is worthy of its value, although plastic parts prevail in the cabin.

The chassis of the new Camaro is built on the basis of the Australian Vauxhall VXR8. The most powerful version of the SS car is equipped with a 6.2 liter engine. The automatic transmission works quite slowly, so lovers of active driving style would recommend a version with a manual box. The suspension is moderately tough and does not cause discomfort, however, lying policemen should pass at low speeds the suspension does not swallow them. The setting of the chassis will allow you to take turns in a controlled drift, but the engine power is still not enough for such a volume.

Camaro entered the market not so long ago, but despite this, Sareni United has already prepared a racing version of Camaro GT3 with a capacity of 580 liters. with. and a torque of 680 nm. It will be interesting to see if the American Muscle Car this time can compete with Porsche, Ferrari and Lamborghini, Aston Martin and McLaren the best supercars of the planet at the moment

From words to deed
My first Camaro was the white convertible RS with automatic transmission. And this means that 1920 kg accounts for 304 liters. with. (in the European specification of 315 l. It is difficult to expect from such a car of falcon velocities. A good walking car, nothing more. Gas on the floor, the street named after the founder of the UAE Sheikh Zayed fills the uterine howl, and the convertible jumps forward. Is it exactly RS? The car steer excellently, reacts lively to gas, and slow down well. Of course, this is not a purebred sports car, but for the Camaro RS walking car, even nothing!

And yet SS is SS. Against scrap, as they say, there is no reception. When under a hood of 6.2 liters, then living is somewhat easier. The machine with manual transmission differs from automatic SS with greater power. In the USA it is 424 and 400 liters. with. Accordingly, and in Europe 432 and 405 liters. with. Interestingly, the engine is not just forced, it is generally different. LS3 is on cars with manual transmission, and on automatic Camaro L99. LS3, in addition to Camaro SS, is placed on the basic Corvette. The ninety -ninth motor is more economical: it received phase drivers at the inlet and a mechanism for turning off half the cylinders.

And how all this goes! The sea of \u200b\u200bmoment allows you to start with the third and no longer switch: all the same, the engine will pull out from the bottom, and the speed limit on the tracks will not allow the engine to unscrew to the end. If you still switch, then acceleration beats in the back, and the motor roars as if King Kong had settled in the cylinders! Eh, why in the Emirates at every step of the camera, why are there no serpentines, why is the local autodrome busy today! This yellow-black falcon here simply cannot show everything that is capable of. It remains to turn on the cruise control, open the window, stick out your hand to the runaway stream of warm air and turn on the music louder.

I have only one Burning Desire! Let me Stand Next to Your Fire!, Yes, the desire to only part with Camaro so fast! Yes, in Russia this Chevrolet model will be unreasonably expensive for almost 2 million per car with V6 and almost 2.5 million with V8. Yes, the salon is blind from cheap plastic, yes, climate control is not available even in the form of an option, yes, the machine is too slow, but this machine is incredibly coolest! She simply generates positive, and I want to be behind her steering wheel again. In Detroit, Dubai, Moscow anywhere, just to feel this rebellious sense of freedom again, just to feel like a falcon again. Free and indomitable.

Detroit, ZL-1 and Vladimir Kapitonov
Even before a trip to the UAE, I was able to try Camaro at the GM testing ground under Detroit. Then I didn’t like the car: large rolls, a thoughtful machine gun, weak engines, an empty steering wheel is that I was driving a muscular compartment after races on a mighty Corvette Z06. Against the background of a magnificent supercar, Camaro looked frankly weak. A good walking car is nothing more. Fortunately, trips in the desert changed my opinion.

However, in the Kamaro gamut there is a car that is not at a loss even against the background of a multi -liter Corvette. It's about ZL-1, the open version of which was shown to us the first in the world. The eight equipped with a compressor produces 587 liters. with. and 754 Nm, which allows you to reach 100 km/h in 3.9 seconds and develop 296 km/h. Not weak! Unfortunately, the Americans considered that such a car is not interesting to Europeans, so ZL-1 will be sold only in the USA. And it’s a pity, because for that kind of money no one else offers such a power. Yes, and the salon in ZL-1 is sheathed with alcantara and skin, and there is almost no cheap plastic anywhere.

And where is Vladimir Kapitonov, and who is this at all? Vlad, this is how Kapitonova is called in the USA, left his native Chelyabinsk immediately after school and went to conquer Detroit. After studying at College for Creative Studies, he got into GM, where he was very quickly entrusted with work on the most important projects: the current Escalade and Camaro fruit, including his hands. So in the cast-iron Florence of Russia, as Chelyabinsk is called in one of the humorous programs, Camaro can consider their native auto-bile.


 

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