2012 Chevrolet Camaro Z28

2012 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Front Side View

2012 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Front View

2012 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Rear Angle View

GM Design Chief Ed Welburn confirms to us at the Frankfurt Show, the Camaro Z28 program back on track. As we reported in April, the Z28 is basically completed, signed off with the design, but the final design and certification work has been put on ice, brought the financial position of GM spun out of control.

With GM now in bankruptcy, the program began Z28. Why? Insiders say that the business case Z28 now makes sense because the new UAW contracts reduced labor costs have the car to the point where he thinks GM better prices – and far enough from the Corvette. That’s the good news. The bad news is EPA certification requirements for durability and GM, the Z28 unlikely that go on sale until the end of 2011.

Our pictures are on the final design sign-off close, have seen based on photographs of a model in clay we. Important details to note are, the lower front bumper fascia with larger grille under the hood and headlights mounted in deep holes on both sides. The Z28 is a different mesh grille with a standard Camaro.

At the rear, a larger spoiler lip that the entire width of the car. A new rear bumper is a deep part of the dashboard with integrated sockets. The wheels are 20-inch model with an aggressive “tuning fork” five-spoke pattern.

A new hood with a large, forward-facing scoop. Below is the 6.2-liter supercharged LSA V-8, which also powers the Cadillac CTS-V. As we have already confirmed this is a very power supply delivers 556 hp at 6100 rpm and 551 pound-feet of torque at 3,800 rpm.

The quarter-4300-pound CTS-V overwhelmed 0-60 mph in 4.1 seconds and nails the quarter mile in 12.3 seconds (automatic) or 12.4 seconds (manual transmission). The speed limit is to keep to 175 kilometers per hour in the car (limited to the tranny), but the manual storm in a melt-highway miles 193 hours. Since the Z/28 is 200-300 pounds less than the CTS-V weighs, he can run 60 mph in 3.9 seconds and nails the quarter in the very low 12s. This is the quickest Chevy Z28 ponycar will be built since the legendary ZL-1 powered Camaro Copo 9560 40 years ago.

The Z28 is probably only with a six-speed manual transmission, unless a number of GM-certification of the car can be piggybacked on the work already done for the CTS-V automatic in the region come at low cost.

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