It doesn’t even come close to the supercharged SLP ZL1. The 2011 car’s engine has the same displacement, but produces a mind-boggling 750 horsepower. Top speed is limited to 205 mph, or 328 km/h. As with the original, only 69 copies of the SLP ZL1 will be produced this year. Get in line now.
Back to the test vehicle. The ZL585, cloaked in red paint and sporting 20-inch wheels with red-painted contours, a unique hood with a heat extractor scoop, a rear spoiler, a curb-scraping lower lip spoiler, a rear diffuser and appropriate badging, definitely looks badass. Although the car draws a lot of attention, we doubt many people actually know what an SLP Camaro really is.
Look closely, and you’ll notice that the optional stripes aren’t decals like they stick on the stock Camaro. Rather, they’re painted directly on the car, and a clear coat is applied afterwards. Nice job.
A sport suspension lowers the car by about 1 inch, while optional Eibach springs and an SLP adjustable sway bar package were added to our tester. Surprisingly, it only marginally affects the stock Camaro SS’ stiff ride. Of course, driving around town is punishing, but on the open road, it’s perfectly tolerable.
In fact, the whole package feels assembly-line stock. Nothing on or in the ZL585 gives us the impression that we’re riding in an unbalanced, unfinished car that backfires, stalls and can’t handle itself, unlike some other custom-tuned musclecars.
That is, if you’re prudent enough not to punch the throttle before completing an apex, because the rear wheels will be overwhelmed by the prodigious torque and might scare the hell out of you. But that’s fun.
So far so good. It’s more powerful than a GT500, so it normally should be quicker to 100 km/h, right? Not quite, but we’re driving the ZL585 in November, in temperatures hovering just above the freezing point.
Combined with fairly-worn tires, we can’t manage better than a 0-100 time of 4.6 seconds. SLP claims it can be done in 3.6, but that’s in ideal conditions. We’re trying our best, but we just can’t get enough traction at blastoff and during the 1-2 upshift. We clocked a GT500 to 100 km/h in 4.5 seconds a few months ago, obviously in a warmer climate.
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| The ZL585 draws a lot of attention. (Photo: Matthieu Lambert/Auto123.com) |
Back to the test vehicle. The ZL585, cloaked in red paint and sporting 20-inch wheels with red-painted contours, a unique hood with a heat extractor scoop, a rear spoiler, a curb-scraping lower lip spoiler, a rear diffuser and appropriate badging, definitely looks badass. Although the car draws a lot of attention, we doubt many people actually know what an SLP Camaro really is.
Look closely, and you’ll notice that the optional stripes aren’t decals like they stick on the stock Camaro. Rather, they’re painted directly on the car, and a clear coat is applied afterwards. Nice job.
A sport suspension lowers the car by about 1 inch, while optional Eibach springs and an SLP adjustable sway bar package were added to our tester. Surprisingly, it only marginally affects the stock Camaro SS’ stiff ride. Of course, driving around town is punishing, but on the open road, it’s perfectly tolerable.
In fact, the whole package feels assembly-line stock. Nothing on or in the ZL585 gives us the impression that we’re riding in an unbalanced, unfinished car that backfires, stalls and can’t handle itself, unlike some other custom-tuned musclecars.
That is, if you’re prudent enough not to punch the throttle before completing an apex, because the rear wheels will be overwhelmed by the prodigious torque and might scare the hell out of you. But that’s fun.
So far so good. It’s more powerful than a GT500, so it normally should be quicker to 100 km/h, right? Not quite, but we’re driving the ZL585 in November, in temperatures hovering just above the freezing point.
Combined with fairly-worn tires, we can’t manage better than a 0-100 time of 4.6 seconds. SLP claims it can be done in 3.6, but that’s in ideal conditions. We’re trying our best, but we just can’t get enough traction at blastoff and during the 1-2 upshift. We clocked a GT500 to 100 km/h in 4.5 seconds a few months ago, obviously in a warmer climate.
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| Zero to 100 km/h takes 4.6 seconds, and under better conditions, it could’ve been quicker still. (Photo: Matthieu Lambert/Auto123.com) |