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Let us start by posing a simple question to you: just how much performance do you expect from a car that costs you well over $100,000? If you’re anything like us, you probably would expect any car costing that much to be damn near capable of space travel. One such tuner “supercar” is the SLP ZL1 Camaro, which comes in at right around $110,000 by the time you’ve bought the car itself and paid SLP to work its tuner magic. The car looks quite impressive on paper, considering its 427 cubic inch supercharged LS engine that produces 750 horsepower, and a gaggle of other goodies meant to up the car’s handling and braking to go along with all that colossal power. But does its performance really match its power and price tag?
In a recent post to The Smoking Tire.com, author Zack Klapman lays out his reasoning behind why he thinks the SLP ZL1 is “a loud waste of money.” Klapman points out that the pricey SLP ZL1 is only half a second quicker in getting to sixty than a stock Camaro SS, and that the SLP ZL1 actually has the exact same skid pad number at .90G as its lesser stock SS brethren despite the upgraded coilover suspension. (Read Klapman’s entertaining argument against the SLP ZL1 here.)
It’s tough to argue with a 750 horsepower 5th Gen that does perform at least marginally better than stock, but in the end, can you imagine what you could do to your own SS with $80,000 to spend on aftermarket parts?
