Brute Force: Ford Shelby GT500 v Hennessey Camaro

FOR FULL COMPARISON @ INSIDELINE.COM:
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/Comparos/articleId=151466
Hennessey Camaro Dyno Test Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoIx_-P5M_A
Hennessey Camaro SS Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNcZeqG082A

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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[fordfan197]

I have come to realize that these guys are just Mustang fans. When it came to the Mustang vs. Camaro vs. Challenger, they said the Challenger was easier to live with and had better steering and had great suspension but still put it in last, and the Mustang won because it was simply faster on the quarter. The Camaro was faster in this video and is cheaper than the Mustang and they still put the Mustang on top? I love both cars equally but this is getting ridiculous.

[V8Supercar1]

@Artix40: Top Gear? You mean that biased british show thats bias against anything thats not from Europe? That show? I hope you watch that show just for the jokes and not actually use them as a credible source for information.

[nitro300]

The Chevy just looks more sexy and aggressive.

[daniel0771]

ok so that gt500 test was bs

[mainlymusicman]

OUT OF THESE TWO? WHICH WOULD I PICK? NEITHER!!!

LOL.

[mcanally27]

& thats not even the zl1! Lookout!

[mcanally27]

@FEAROWNAGE no it aint thats not even the zl1 & its smokes it

[FEAROWNAGE]

@fordfan197 The Mustang is the fastest

[SHTINONCHEVY]

@Deviltwin ford does not need s/c to be fast for one the cobra r was n/a and the v10 they put in the boss if they put that motor in.a production car say by. Even now that car is faster then any gm.

[SHTINONCHEVY]

For the gm guys and ones who dont know shit the hpe went against the 600 super snake not the 725 that car runs 10.8@134 and kills the gtr and the gt 350r runs mods 11 to low on street tires. The zl1 has no chance even with that car nevermind the 2013 gt 500. And the srt can't even beat the 5.0.

[JaguarRB20]

@jdude2012 watch the hennessey hpe650 against the supersnake and youll get ur facts straight real quick

[jdude2012]

@deviltwin69 te hennessey camaro uses a supercharger