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What is as fast a BMW M4, but $30K less?

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John Goreham
Contributing Writer, GM-Trucks.com
3/3/2016

Quick! What is just as fast a BMW M4, but costs about thirty grand less? Right, the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro 2SS. Motor Trend has a cool way of performance testing cars head to head. It does the usual instrument testing, 0-60 MPH and quarter mile and all that jazz, but then it takes the cars to the track at Willow Springs and let's their pro driver, Randy Pobst, do some familiarization laps and then do a timed hot lap. You can read the Motor Trend article for yourself, but the upshot is that the Camaro 2SS is its match.

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This is not the first time that Motor Trend has been surprised by a car matching the M4's capabilities on track. Last year, the magazine ran the

and the two cars were within a fraction of a second of one another on the track. Unlike the Camaro SS, the Lexus RC F cannot match the drag-strip times of the M4.

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Daryl LBZ Senior Enthusiast

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I looked at a 6th Gen V6, and SS at the dealer today. I have no idea how anyone can even see out of the rear window of one? Definitely a nice car though. V6 was pricey at over $39k.

SnakeEyeSS Senior Enthusiast

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Yup, that is cool. But two different markets of people. 90% of the people that bought one would not want be caught dead in the other. I have owned both and the owners seem to hate the other. Camaro owners trash talk BMW's. BMW owners trash talk Vette's and Camaro's.

 

Of the three, I'd probably take the Lexus.

 

Ugh.....never that I'd see myself write that sentence.

 

It looks good to me, I haven't seen Lexus owners complain about poor build quality, reliability, or aging poorly nearly as much as BMW or Chevy owners, and the most recent head of Toyota seems like he actually cares about the enthusiast sector(like Lutz did).

MikeNH Senior Enthusiast

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I looked at a 6th Gen V6, and SS at the dealer today. I have no idea how anyone can even see out of the rear window of one? Definitely a nice car though. V6 was pricey at over $39k.

 

 

 

Meh, you'll get a backup camera and blindspot monitoring. haha

Daryl LBZ Senior Enthusiast

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Meh, you'll get a backup camera and blindspot monitoring. haha

Haha! I didn't even think of that. The back up camera alone would be good enough. My Cruze has one, and i hardly ever look out the rear window with it.

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