These are the heavy hitters. The big dogs. They're not playmakers or finesse artists and they don't dish out assists. If the 2010 Ford Shelby GT500 is Dick Butkus snuffing out a Jim Brown thrust up the middle, then the 2010 Hennessey Performance Engineering Chevy Camaro SS HPE550 is Lawrence Taylor with radar lock on Joe Theismann's right leg. And it's not just that they're powerful and merciless, but intentionally provocative and intimidating, too. On looks alone, either of these cars is enough to make the drivers of other machines cower like a three-legged Labradoodle.
They are, of course, muscle cars in the rawest, most vicious sense of the term. And they're quicker, faster, meaner and flat nastier than anything built back when Ol' Shel and Don Yenko were just guys. And not by a little bit either.
But which is the better beast? To find out, we drove these two all-Americans on the street, at our test track and on the Dynojet chassis dyno at MD Automotive in Westminster, California. Then we did some big smoky burnouts just to piss off the Sierra Club. By the time we were through, Greenpeace had threatened to blockade the Inside Line garage and the Obama administration was seriously considering a unilateral deployment of the fun police. Didn't matter. By then the tires were shot and we had our winner.
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That camaro costs a bunch more. Add a pulley and a tune to the GT500 and you got another 100 HP to the wheels, all for only $600.00. Then who smokes who? The GT500 also has all forged internals, the camaro does not, so the GT500 can "Bolt On" much more HP without breaking, where as the camaro can not do so. My wife bought me a black on black 2010 Shelby for my 50th B-Day.....I love it. :-)
Chad302beast<<lol you ford guys cant live it down can you?the camaro smoked the shelby get over yourself?quit crying like a bunch of babies already noone cars really.and the shelby will never be in the league with a corvette ZR1
2011StangRapingNewSS the day your rustang beats this henessy ill sell my camaro and buy a ZR1 then what lol?all you got is talk.we could beat your supercharger all motor any day with the right tires and suspension
whats ur prob saying the big engine is cool and a tiny bitch enginr is gay isnt a big deal to get a pissy fit over, and ur "explaination" wasnt what ud call helpfull just blabed about gear ratios and tranys, they like manly cars so what ford went with a smaller but more performance route, ur pick im with the 6.2, performace is for the z/28 in 2011.
Do you realize how much it took for Ford to actually get there appraisal! The only thing Ford has they've always liked is the F-150 which gets the Motor Trend truck of the year every year amost!
Lol What does it have in its class that Ford or Chevy even put into the class with it? Ford doesn't take a fucking Family SUV and turn it into a top heavy gay ass sports SUV! And you say so much shit about ford using superchargers the SRT-4 Neon and SRT-4 Caliber are all Turbo'd! Dude and your the one who came onto this subject being the ass hole so i think its you who should change there fucking tone of voice! Ford doesn't need a supercharger they just use the supercharger because its efficient
Dude your such a fucking moron to even say something as rediculous as that! The Reason they make bigger engines is because thats the only way they can basically go. They dont change there technology enough to even make much improvement! They use long gear ratio's and 6 speed tranny's to keep those things within recommended fuel mileage set by the gov.!
the reason camaro has a engine thats bigger isnt cuz they cant make a tiny bitch one than throw a cheap supercharger on it, its cuz, well theres no nice way to put this, but men like big ass cars with bigass V8s that are for looks and goin fast, ud be retarded to get a gt500 cuz ud never get it out of 3rd gear in real life.
lol im sorry- its not the forced induction part- i just love whe companys sweat to churn out these high performance motors. and yea i kno displacment is a big issue but its not that much of an advantage- and yea i kno aboutt he boost running cars in the world. but as you see in my last comment- all i want is for ford to show why it sells the most- not because they sound good- its because the mustang started a fad that never died. and i total respect the older mustangs- even the new GTs.
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wow... that was easy