Wednesday 12th November 2014

Chevrolet Camaro GT3: Time For Tea?

Worried racing cars are going soft? 650hp 7.9-litre Camaro will allay your fears!

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How a GT3-spec Chevrolet Camaro has passed PH by is very surprising and, quite frankly, a bit embarrassing. How could we not know about such a thing?

It is built by Reiter Engineering, the same guys creating the KTM X-Bow GT4 and the reason the Camaro came belatedly onto our radar. The specification of this car is simply outrageous: a 7,883cc dry-sumped V8 is front-mid mounted with outputs of 'more than' 650hp and 590lb ft. The whole car weighs just 1,290kg, or 50kg more than a Renaultsport Clio. Complete with the full roster of racing aero addenda and painted black (obviously), the Camaro GT3 is quite possibly the most malevolent race car in the world. It's fabulous.

Championships featuring GT3 cars include the Blancpain Sprint and Endurance Series plus the German ADAC GT. Imagine this racing against the Bentleys, McLarens, Astons and so on. More need to be sold and raced (it costs 195,000 euros, if you're interested).

Reiter Engineering and the Sareni Camaro team would probably rather we ran one of their videos in this slot but all of them are rather overwrought and don't focus on the car enough. Instead we have a very simple video of the Camaro thundering around Monza on a test day. Keep a look out for the fuel vapours from the side-exit exhaust. What a car!

See the video here.

 

[Streetrod]

Now that is just plain rude

[Cable]

Free medallion and chest hair with each car?

That really is a manly car

[Wizardskills]

Well that looks cool .

Isn't 82 BHP per litre a bit low though for a race car? Unless regulations are limiting it of course.

[Krikkit]

Wizardskills said:

Well that looks cool .

Isn't 82 BHP per litre a bit low though for a race car? Unless regulations are limiting it of course.

GT3 designated intake restrictors will make headline power very tricky to get - I'd imagine the torque curve benefits from the extra swept capacity.

That looks awesome, even without sound (at work )

[soad]

Cable said:

Free medallion and chest hair with each car?

That really is a manly car

No nancy-boy chest waxing men!
Get those shirt buttons undone (medallion is optional).

[oversteerer]

Wow, a Camaro that doesn’t weigh nearly 2 tonnes!

[Fartgalen]

Music to my ears.

[Fishtigua]

That noise reminds me of the old Can-Am racers of the '70s. Proper job.

[alexpa]

Quality

[hammo19]

That's the way to do it - put that on track with those Corvettes please....

[British Beef]

Stunning noise, a welcome man rumble to the Fezzas screaming....

[VR6 Eug]

what a noise

[tapi]

It's made me feel all funny in my special place*

• Runcorn

[Buff Mchugelarge]

Mmmmmmm... I approve. Muchly.

[Top Banana]

If Mad Max had a race car....this would be it :-)

was watching the ADAC GT series on Motors TV just last night and it was great to see this beast mixing in with
Merc SLS, Z4 GT's, and all the other 'regular' cars we associate with GT racing

good luck to them for running/selling more cars for 2015

[Usget]

GT3 is just getting better and better. I hope this gets to race among the Bentleys etc!

[tdm34]

Never has a Ferrari sounded so wimpy......

[Ozzie Osmond]

Cable said:

That really is a manly car

????????

I simply do not get the sexualisation of cars. They're just cars!

[daytona365]

It's very nice.

[4oClock]

glad i waited till i go home to hear that bad boy!!