we're driving the all-new 2016 chevrolet camaro SS and we're road tripping it
we're going 700 miles from dallas to Albuquerque
we're going to find the best driving roads in between those two destinations
there's a lot of new hardware that's going to make this camaro with the great
driving machine
but can our back surviving this thing for 700 miles
we're going to find out
when we say the SS is all new it's all new this is a brand-new chassis
the only thing they carried over from the old ones pretty much the badge and
under the hood is the lt1 v8 from the Corvette it's a direct-injected 6.2
liter and makes 455 horsepower 455 pound-feet of torque
we have more power less weight and it's faster this manual car does 0 to 60 in
4.3 seconds in the quarter mile in twelve point five seconds
so the SS that were and has a ton of adjustability both in steering
suspension engine through new drive mode selector 'he's you can't own everything
down in Turing mode and you can also just really happened up in track mode
and that's going to change the suspension firmness the steering
tightness and also the throttle response and then there's the auto red match
feature which is it something else we've seen in the Corvette and it's done here
with just as good as an execution
now what it does is when you downshift it flips the throttle to match
engine speed with transmission speed and it does it smoothly and perfectly every
time a little cheating replacing heel toe downshifting but man it works so
perfectly that I've never turned it off
one of the most important qualities you wanted a good road trip cars you want to
feel comfortable driving and not only in the seating position but in visibility
and how the car handles and rides and you look at this car and you think oh it
wouldn't have good visibility will you be exactly right the visibility is awful
it's one of the features of the fifth-generation camaro the last one
that stood out as just not good
and I think it's worse in this one but this new generation camaro has a few
tricks up its sleeve that helps you deal with the bad visibility including blind
spot monitoring on this to SS trim level and I have the utmost confidence in this
system which you almost have to because you can't see anything over your
shoulder when you're passing emerging in addition to that there's this very very
large screen 8 inch screen that has a backup camera with dynamic lines
so when you move the steering wheel backing up those lines also move is a
very wide angle back up camera so you can see a lot of what's going on when
you're reversing and it also has a cross traffic alert
so if you're backing out of parking space you're not going to be able to see
anything that's coming toward you over your shoulder
so this feature will actually alert you with a little flash in the screen that
there's someone approaching from either side
one of the most bang for the buck features in the 2016 camaro is the
optional 495 dollar 8-inch my link touch screen now it's a high quality display
that has navigation but it also has apple carplay and if your camaro shopper
and you have a newer iphone then you have to get this feature car plate
seamlessly integrates numerous functions of the iphone now in other cars you
might get half function like I you get voice to text here but you won't get any
kind of app compatibility this thing works flawlessly and any feature that
you would need to use in your car you can
the car also has 4g LTE connectivity with wife high and Chevy you said it's
great for road trips and after spending seven hundred miles in the car we get to
test yeah it is
is there are areas in texas and new mexico that we were driving through
where there is no cell phone service at all or none that we could pick up on our
phones but the cars stronger antenna mounted outside the car was absolutely
be able to pick it up
we were able to get texts sent email and also have facetime conversations through
the iphone and even at its strongest speeds
we got a very good signal much more than we have in the past and some of these
systems which have been more gimmicky than useful
the new one is absolutely a working solid feature that made road tripping
America great we spent 700 miles in the camaro finding new driving roads had a
lot of fun
you've done a lot of highway cruising been on a lot of curvy roads and the
camaro just surprises in every way
well except visibility there's no surprise there it's really bad but there
are ways around it
you do have to pony up this Camaro is forty-six thousand dollars with
destination but it's a sports car that you can drive every day