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As one of the aboriginal “Sweet 16” Hot Auto cars produced in 1968, the aboriginal Custom Camaro is additionally one of the best approved by collectors. Forty-five years later, it seems applicable that the aboriginal full-size, factory-built Hot Auto car accessible for auction is the 2013 Chevrolet Camaro SS Hot Auto Appropriate Edition. We spent some time on the streets and at the clue to acquisition out if the full-size Hot Auto Camaro evokes the aforementioned action as the 1:64 die-cast cars do for millions of kids and kids at heart.
Available as a auto and convertible in 2LT V-6 and 2SS V-8 forms with an automated or chiral transmission, the $6995 Hot Auto amalgamation includes different exoteric and autogenous treatments — but no achievement enhancements. Exoteric cues accommodate Kinetic Dejected Brownish paint, RS actualization amalgamation (HID headlights with LED aura rings, body-color roof canal abstraction and shark-fin antenna), several $.25 from the ZL1 (upper advanced grille, blacked-out rocker panels, and rear spoiler), Camaro Dusk advanced splitter, rear diffuser, Hot Caster badging (grille, advanced fenders, block lid), exoteric cartoon (redline about aerial advanced grille; two-tone matte atramentous band on hood, roof, and trunk; blackout console amid taillights; division console blaze and gill decals), and 21-inch, black-painted five-spoke admixture auto with a redline stripe.
Opening the doors reveals added Hot Auto badges (door axle plates, council wheel), a atramentous covering autogenous with red bond and a Hot Auto logo abstract on the advanced seats, and different Camaro attic mats. A dealer-installed corrective agent awning is additionally included. With a abject amount of $37,035 (including $900 destination) abacus the $6995 Hot Auto Appropriate Copy package, $895 bifold approach exhaust, and $795 aeronautics arrangement brought our 2SS auto manual’s absolute amount to $45,720.
Motivation comes from the aforementioned 426-hp, 420-lb-ft, 6.2-liter LS3 V-8 as added six-speed manual-equipped SS models. (SS models with the six-speed auto abide to be powered by the 400-hp, 410-lb-ft L99 V-8.) Wrapped in 245/40 advanced and 275/35 rear Pirelli P Zero rubber, the special-edition 21-inch admixture auto admeasurement 8 inches advanced up advanced and 9 inches advanced out back.
At the dragstrip, the Camaro SS Hot Auto accomplished 60 mph in 4.5 abnormal and accomplished the quarter-mile in 13.0 abnormal at 109.8 mph, putting it in the blubbery of two ahead activated Camaro SS models. Those cars hit 60 mph in 4.5 abnormal and 4.7 abnormal respectively, and accomplished the quarter-mile in 12.9 abnormal at 110.7 mph and 13.1 abnormal at 110.8 mph.
With 20-inch auto accepted Camaro SS fare, we accepted the beyond 21-linch auto to aching ride affection on the artery and achievement at the track. To our surprise, the Hot Auto Camaro rode calmly on all but the best alveolate roads. Motor Trend testing administrator Kim Reynolds was afraid by how accessible it was to advance about the amount eight compared with those added Camaros, acquainted assured and counterbalanced administration with basal understeer and able brakes. When it was all said and done, the appropriate copy Camaro acquaint 0.95 g on the skidpad and lapped the amount eight in 24.7 abnormal at 0.81 g average. Braking achievement was solid as well, with a abounding stop from 60 defective aloof 103 feet.
The Hot Auto Camaro compares agreeably in administration achievement with the two ahead activated Camaro SS models (with 20-inch wheels), which acquaint 0.88 g and 0.92 g on the skidpad and 25.8 abnormal at 0.80 g boilerplate and 25.2 abnormal at 0.73 g average, respectively. Sixty-to-zero braking came in 112 anxiety and 118 feet. A Camaro SS 1LE we activated acquaint 1.03 g and 24.2 abnormal at 0.83 g boilerplate about the skidpad and amount eight. The 1LE chock-full from 60 mph in 101 feet.
On the streets, the Camaro SS Hot Auto rides smoother than its ample 3883-pound barrier weight would suggest, admitting its aggregate is consistently noticeable. Visibility continues to be compromised by the bank greenhouse, abnormally the blubbery C-pillars. While the Camaro is accessible to accumulate centered in its lane on the street, it’s easier to aback into a parking atom than cull in headfirst. Despite its able dispatch numbers, the ample Camaro doesn’t feel as quick as it is, which makes befitting tabs on the head-up affectation speedometer crucial.
For this ardent Hot Auto collector, the Camaro Hot Auto Appropriate Copy array aerial marks for actuality with its “cartoonish” looks and actual acceptation amid the aboriginal Hot Auto cars. The brownish dejected acrylic with consciousness-expanding flakes is a avant-garde estimation of Hot Wheels’ Spectraflame dejected acrylic accessible on the aboriginal Custom Camaro, while the rear division console blaze decal, admixture caster design, and redline band are throwbacks to Hot Wheels’ aboriginal detailing. Overall, the Hot Auto amalgamation adds attenuate administration enhancements to the Camaro after actuality too overt, admitting some staffers would adopt the administration elements after the Hot Auto badging.
The alone badging artifice I accept apropos the double-stacked badges on the advanced fender. Completely replacing the Camaro calligraphy with the Hot Auto adumbration would accommodate beneath of an aftermarket appearance. After all, aloof like the Chevrolet Corvette and Ford Mustang, the Camaro’s iconic administration doesn’t crave exoteric badges to be instantly recognizable.
Speaking of recognition, those aural Hot Auto ambition demographic were the aboriginal to apprehension the full-size Hot Auto car. While chock-full at one red light, a boy about 7 years absurdly acicular out the Hot Auto fender adumbration to his mom. The Hot Auto Camaro always angry active of those agilely cat-and-mouse to get their driver’s license. In 1968, Hot Auto affective the absorption of millions of adolescent enthusiasts with musclecars such as the Custom Camaro; today, the Hot Auto Camaro may be the car that brings adolescent enthusiasts aback into the musclecar fold.
