Corvette ZR1 vs Camaro ZL1 vs Dodge Demon | Top Gear

three cars 2235 brake horsepower combined and aamir $300,000 for the lot welcome my friends to America [Music] the Corvette said r1 is quite possibly the angriest car ever at its heart lies the lt5 6.2 liter v8 producing a 755 horsepower thanks for 2.7 liter eaton supercharger the numbers really are extraordinary none more so than the 130 thousand dollar price tag because that means it offers similar performance to the McLaren 720's for under half the price first things first you can get an 8-speed Auto with this car but you can also get a 7-speed manual and I'm pleased to report that we have the 7-speed manual here is a manual gearbox these days in a 755 horsepower car time now to state the obvious this car is biblically almost painfully fast up to 4,000 rpm or so as much like the zero six but beyond that well when I just demonstrate [Music] but what it just oh it just likes the afterburners and flies this is the point where most racing drivers claim that turning everything off is the best way to yield the most fun and the lowest lap times but Chevy's engineer's claim even with Lewis behind the wheel it's faster performance traction management system switched off and Who am I to argue so right now we're in track mode and quite frankly I'm glad the safety blanket because despite our sticky rubber despite all this arrow that's on our side you can feel this car wanting to break traction all the time there is more to this car than just endless power and a massive massive engine though there's some finesse here too especially the brakes enormous Brembo carbon ceramic discs now Corvette claim this car will stop from 212 miles an hour to a standstill in about eight seconds I'm not going to do 212 miles an hour but I can demonstrate what they mean yep yep those work the truth with this cars that the standard c7 Corvette is a really really well sorted car so Chevrolet was going to have to go some to mess this one up and they haven't at all this car is mind scrambling ly good but it isn't your only option if you're in the market for a Chevrolet that eats racetracks for breakfast this is the 650 horsepower Camaro zl1 powered by the same LT 4 supercharged v8 you get in the Corvette zo6 and fitted here with the hardcore 1 le pack only available with a 6-speed manual it adds a bigger front splitter and win new appropriately-named goodyear eagle f1 supercar tires and some extremely trick lightweight multimatic dampers that can be adjusted for camber and ride height so you can dial in your perfect track setup using your favorite spanner how could anyone drive this car and think I know I need another hundred horsepower like you get in the Corvette but full throttle in this car well it's still a bit like being punched in the face in a good way of course now it's not a small car this you've got seats in the back it weighs over 1,700 kilograms it's big it's brutal throwing it around is a physical experience so you might think on a racetrack it would all start to unravel but you'd be wrong because that's where this one le package really comes alive it's so positive turning it's so immediate if you needed proof of just how fast this car is around the track well it's done a lap of the Nurburgring in 7 minutes and 16 seconds listen the big boy leaves and boy can you feel it it's the least powerful car here but feels like the fastest although the Corvette will probably haul it in on the straights for anyone that thinks American cars can't handle corners I invite you to try one of these the thing is you don't have to have this fully spec card you can have the one le track package with the non supercharged Camaro SS less power and potentially more fun to throw around it all comes down to honesty how are you honestly going to use your car do you prefer the track or further road or do you prefer the dragstrip meet the dodge demon a car designed specifically to pull a wheelie and smash the quarter mile in under ten seconds it takes a challenger hellcat and fits a bigger supercharger new Pistons and crankshaft a higher rev limit higher flow fuel injectors wider track 18-inch drag radial tires and a beefed up transmission and drivetrain this is the world's fastest production car for $85,000 the big surprise here is that despite this car being so focused on the drag strip it's not actually that much of a pick to drive when you get on the track and there's a couple of reasons for that number one is these massive three one five Section Nitto drag radial tires they actually give you loads and loads of grip and the other is the adaptive Bilstein dampers so you can have it all Rollie pollie in street mode like a proper old-school muscle car or you can tighten things right up in sport now this thing does weigh over two tons so it is it's quite sizable but it can be hustled around as I said earlier and quite outrageous speeds and just listen to that engine it just squeals away snorts away but generally misbehaves I can also say I don't think I'll ever get bored of that but none of this of course is the Dodge Diamond Party piece for that we need a prepped drag strip and our skinny front tires which we don't have but what we do have is a straight so I'm going to stop here if I hit this button here that gives us the full 840 horsepower it knows that we have 100 octane fuel in the car next we hit the SRT button and go into drag mode there we go drag mode activating systems check trans brake feature access by putting back both paddles foot on the brake increase engine speed release one pedal release brake pedal what that was interesting these car produces so much talk that honestly on this surface well it just overwhelms the retards when you can feel the fury of this thing spilling out of every pore naught to 60 in 2.3 seconds you know what you can keep your Tesla P 100 feet [Music] how on earth I'm supposed to choose between three cars that are so good at what they're supposed to be good at I'm not really sure but I've made a decision and this is the way it goes the first of all is the Corvette don't get me wrong it offers obscene amounts of performance for relative buttons but there is a bit of a whiff of midlife crisis about it next of all it pains me to say is the Dodge demon I absolutely love this car I love its single-minded focus on its mission statement and then how thoroughly they've done the engineering to make it happen and let's face it it's the coolest car here by an absolute mob but the only car I can actually imagine using in Europe and working for me is this one the zero one one le it is amazing on track it's usable on road it's to be mentioned in the same breath of the 911 gt3rs if that's not an overstatement let's not forget this is half the price of the Porsche that's just astonishing

Channel: Top Gear

Views: 2,764,034

Rating: 4.6638112 out of 5

Keywords: american muscle cars, us performance cars, dodge demon 2018, dodge demon, dodge demon vs, dodge demon review, corvette zr1, corvette zr1 2019, corvette zr1 2018, corvette zr1 vs demon, corvette zr1 review, camaro zl1, camaro zl1 2018, camaro zl1 review, camaro zl1 vs demon, dodge demon vs corvette, dodge demon vs camaro zl1, camaro vs corvette

Id: tIGOQiYPUbA

Length: 8min 51sec (531 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 15 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/swolecoder]

ZL1 1LE does 0-60 in 3.5 not 3.0 as stated in the video. Maybe they got it mixed up with the ZR1.

[u/lakelifeisbestlife]

I love how Dodge is getting back to it's roots of just saying fuck it and building ridiculous vehicles.

[u/Jesus_Butter]

Fun Fact: That Demon belongs to Mike Musto from House of Muscle.

[u/224quickmaths]

How can someone make such a boring review about three exciting cars? What kind of weird ranking was that? Watching the segment I had no idea what the point of the comparison was until the very end.

All around, a surprisingly unsatisfying car segment. I award it no points. And may Raptor Jesus have mercy on all of our souls.

[u/BlindBeard]

Honestly.....I totally forgot about this. I read the title, opened up the video, and I'm totally confused about who this random dude is introducing the shot.

I mean, I still don't know who tf he is, but he's not one the three amigos.

[u/schwartzki]

This would have been so much better with Chris Harris...