For the past fifty years the Chevrolet Camaro has won over our hearts and imaginations. This is a car that has been built to represent the speed, power, precision and brashness of the American Spirit and has done so in glorious fashion for the past five decades. Over the years the Camaro has taken on a variety of different looks, but never has it strayed from being one of the most loved and desired sports cars on the market for us to make the car we want to drive on the road and at the track.

For 2017 Chevrolet has already announced a new ZL1 model to top the Camaro lineup and give us more of what we want from this amazing machine. This new ZL1 is added to the lineup only a year after a new generation has begun and is one of the most awaited cars to come to market for this new model year. While the styling of the newest generation Camaro is nearly the same as the previous generation (using a “don’t fix what isn’t broke approach”) this new ZL1 model will give this car some serious power and more engineering feats than ever before.

For power the Camaro ZL1 will use a 6.2-liter supercharged V8 engine which is really no surprise at all. This engine will produce 650 horsepower to rocket this car to sixty mph in only 3.5 seconds while giving us a quarter mile time of 11.4 seconds at 127 mph. This certainly gives the Camaro bragging rights in the world of pony cars, but that’s not all that this car has to offer when it comes to the performance that you can seriously admire. The Camaro ZL1 has a secret hidden within that you’ve never seen before.

This new version of the Camaro is able to reach the sixty mph mark by only using first gear. That’s right, no gear shifts are needed to get to the sixty mark, as long as the car has the six-speed manual transmission it will make its way to sixty mph before you ever need to shift to second gear. Of course you can enjoy the shift times of the new ten-speed automatic transmission as well which is being advertised as a faster shifting transmission than the PDK dual clutch model used by Porsche. The wider gear ratio allows the car to be more aggressive in first gear and is what gives this new Camaro the ability to reach higher speeds without ever changing gears.

Is this the Camaro that’s right for you? It is if you want to experience the absolute best in Camaro driving excitement. With the ZL1 you’ll be able to turn some fast laps at your nearest track and take advantage of the smaller size of the car (compared to the previous generation) and take it around the corners much faster than you ever thought possible. This new ZL1 certainly does an amazing job of representing what an American Muscle car should be.