FIFTH-GEN HOT 10

摘要

OK, so your neighbor Bob's best friend's second cousin had a stock SS 396 Camaro that ran 12s on an uphill dragstrip, in the summer, with a sandstorm rolling in, and a swarm of locusts clogging up the air cleaner. Preposterous? Yes, but only slightly less plausible than the story where your uncle Ted ran 12s in his own big-block Camaro at the local dragstrip. Urban folklore aside, most published quarter-mile tests of the era confirm that the legendary L78-powered Camaro, and its 396 ci of glory, was a mid 14-second machine that might crack 100-mph trap speeds on a good day. Compare that to the LS3-powered fifth-gen Camaro that rips 12.90s in the quarter at 113 mph, and it's painfully obvious that cars really weren't faster way back when.