You've seen and heard the supercharged Hennessey Camaro SS on the dyno. Now watch it pull an apparent 11.67-second quarter-mile at 121 mph on a dragstrip. But first watch it do a burnout to prime the project car's 20-inch drag radials. Then, make fun of its icky side decals.
If true, an 11.7 quarter-mile would go some distance toward justifying whatever thousands of dollars the HPE supercharger package is likely to cost. We've timed a stock 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS at 13 seconds flat for the quarter-mile with a trap speed of 110.9 mph.
carswapper says:
09:38 AM, 05/18/09
How much money for 1.3 seconds? I remember a time when 13 seconds really meant you were fast. Not so much now I guess.
iceman0918 says:
09:49 AM, 05/18/09
11.7 is really fast but what about a 3.6 0-60 time now you're cooking. I was only so so about the camaro ss but Hennessey's preliminary rendering of the hpe550 on their website looks really good, sans decals preferably.
hondacura4 says:
07:14 PM, 05/18/09
Id rather see a twin turbo Camaro SS as Ive never been a huge fan of superchargers and the fact that I prefer more mid/high RPM power over brute low end grunt.