Hennessey Camaro @ the Track

FOR HENNESSEY VS. SHELBY COMPARO @ INSIDELINE.COM:
http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/Comparos/articleId=151466?tid=edm...

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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[s10ss1]

Damn I can't believe how many people out there are absolutly nuts about fords its crazy do you people ever work on cars trucks in general I mean major stuff like actually take the heads off an engine or rebuild a trans?

In the aspect of a hot rod the Camaro always wins period. Chevy parts cost more cause they last longer and chevys always had more horse power comparing the same size engine and parts etc. Do your home work people STOP with your bull shit!!!!

[sidescrollin]

yeah but everyone Drag races....thats the same arguement ford guys have for the new mustang. ...its slow but waaah it handles better....how ofter do you pull up to red light and go into a slalom or have a Brake test competition or go into all out autocross?? you don't, then only thing that matters on the street is how fast you can go in a line.

[TheHCR202]

Thats my best friends dads car. its not fake trust me. its # 1/50.

[bballplaya123678]

you guys suck at driving you are saying with 612hp at the rear wheels it does 0-60 in 4.3 seconds which is what the 2011 mustnag gt can do stock with 386hp at the rear wheels? haha wtf motor trend tested the hennessey 650 camaro at 3.7 seconds 0-60

[ogenmatic]

I once had a Ford Fiesta.

[dal3fan88]

@2xchrome well it's alot more reliable than a gaystang

[IxOVERKILLxI]

@alvarobarragan1990 its cuz inside line cant drive

[djjuicyfruit]

Cool car! Pretty damn fast, and American muscle is always cool. I just prefer the Challenger as far as styling. And they are kind of similar. The Camaro just looks too much like a transformer :P

[alvarobarragan1990]

its wierd how the camaro hpe650 ran a 1/4 mile in 11.9 at 121.3 mph and the camaro hpe550 ran a 1/4 mile in 11.9 at 121.6... how can the camaro hpe650 run .3 slower than the camaro hpe550?????? SEEMS FAKE TO ME