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    Hennessey HPE550 Camaro Looks Ready To Ram 562 HP Down Your Gullet

    562 HP Hennessey HPE550 Camaro: First Test

    What's This Engine Bay?

    Hennessey Limited Edition 2010 HPE550 Camaro, For Junior
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    Image of smalleyxb122 smalleyxb122
    06/18/09

    In reply to Hennessey HPE550 Camaro Looks Ready To Ram 562 HP Down Your Gullet
    Expect to fork over roughly $59,500 for one of the 500 Texas-tuned ponies.


    ...But don't expect ever to get the car in return for your money.

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    06/18/09

    In reply to Hennessey HPE550 Camaro Looks Ready To Ram 562 HP Down Your Gullet
    Ray, step away from the bumper.
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    06/18/09

    In reply to Hennessey HPE550 Camaro Looks Ready To Ram 562 HP Down Your Gullet


    /mandatory


    Is the new exhaust better?

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    Image of Franzouse Franzouse
    06/18/09

    In reply to Hennessey HPE550 Camaro Looks Ready To Ram 562 HP Down Your Gullet
    Cue Clarkson voice :"This beast, has as much grunt as a pack of rabid Oklahoma football players... and about as much good taste".
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    Image of Ash78, tryptophanatic Ash78, tryptophanatic
    06/18/09

    In reply to Hennessey HPE550 Camaro Looks Ready To Ram 562 HP Down Your Gullet
    20-inch rollers


    Slap some 17" aluminum or mags on there and you'll be in the 11s, but nobody will automatically know how small your penis is.

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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    06/18/09

    In reply to Hennessey HPE550 Camaro Looks Ready To Ram 562 HP Down Your Gullet
    Are the Hennessey wheel weights made out of gold?
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    Image of Franzouse Franzouse
    06/18/09

    @Jo $chmo: I see what you did there.
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    Image of wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx wrx-tyrannosaurusWrx
    06/18/09

    In reply to Hennessey HPE550 Camaro Looks Ready To Ram 562 HP Down Your Gullet
    So we can pick it up in 14 years if we order it right now?


    Gotta love Hennessey.


    I hear they sell a lot of hardly used Viper parts.

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/18/09

    In reply to Hennessey HPE550 Camaro Looks Ready To Ram 562 HP Down Your Gullet
    I can't believe they get people to pay $60k for 140 horsepower. A local tuner can supercharge the car for much less, and then install an adjustable coilover suspension as well.


    It's gotta be the floormats that drive up the price.

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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/18/09

    @leavethegun-takethecannoli: 136 horsepower, sorry.
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    06/18/09

    In reply to Hennessey HPE550 Camaro Looks Ready To Ram 562 HP Down Your Gullet
    What's with all these low-psi supercharged wimps? I fart at more than 6 psi.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    06/18/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon -> now boosted to 350hp: You must live in the Southwest United States. Or Boston.
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    06/18/09

    @pauljones: Canada. It's the poutine.
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    Image of TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah
    06/18/09

    @boosted-lego-wagon -> now boosted to 350hp: Superchargers typically run lower amounts of PSI. But your one bolt and a pully away from mechanical suicide.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    06/18/09

    In reply to Hennessey HPE550 Camaro Looks Ready To Ram 562 HP Down Your Gullet
    426hp is enough for me to kill myself with. I just can't see paying $60k for this.
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    Image of baldy_pm baldy_pm
    06/18/09

    @pauljones: But you get to have Orange Leather!
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    06/18/09

    @baldy_pm: They actually offer orange leather straight from the factory.


    Word on the street is that they took a sample of Pamela Anderson's skin and genetically engineered it and put it into mass production. Hence orange leather in Zs and Camaros.

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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    06/18/09

    @pauljones: Nothing against the Camaro, but $60k is ridiculous for exactly that. 562hp is failry impressive, but when you are pushing around a giant land barge, it only puts you in the 12s. At least with that half day of training you get with the car, the average Camaro driver might be able to get it into the 13s...
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    06/18/09

    @Scandinavian Flick is hooning the star!:


    It's not the weight thing that bothers me. Yes, it's heavy, but at the same time, I understand why it is so heavy. Modern safety equipment, and IRS, and the fact that it is meant to be an everyman's car, which means that there is no room in the budget for a lot of fancy carbon fiber and aluminum. And even with that heft, it certainly is slow by any definition. Hell, even the V6 Camaro can hustle pretty well.


    What gets me is paying an extra $25k over the price of a fully-loaded 2SS Camaro for an extra 136hp. 426hp is more than enough to cause trouble. And if you absolutely must have that extra 136hp, you can buy the parts and do it yourself for a hell of a lot cheaper. I mean, seriously. He bolted on a supercharger and remapped the ECU. Is that really $25,000 worth of labor?


    @skaycog: Where was a girl like you when I was growing up?

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    06/18/09

    @pauljones: It certainly is not slow.
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    Image of POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION
    06/09/09

    In reply to 562 HP Hennessey HPE550 Camaro: First Test
    I like his other new pet project...



    + Watch video



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    Image of DonLuc DonLuc
    06/09/09

    In reply to 562 HP Hennessey HPE550 Camaro: First Test
    That A/C compressor looks remarkably easy to replace.
    What with being on top of the motor and all...
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    Image of tenbeers tenbeers
    06/09/09

    @DonLuc: huh? you're looking at a inlet-forward rear-drive Magnuson TVS2300 blower.
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/09/09

    In reply to 562 HP Hennessey HPE550 Camaro: First Test
    proving that the Camaro is no longer just a redneck's play thing and more a precisely-guided patriot missile.


    Sorry, maybe I'm getting an internet error here... where's the proof of that? I'm still seeing a redneck's play thing. "As American as Super-sized Fries and Size 42 Jeans?" Well... yes... it's bloated and ugly, I just didn't expect there to be pride at that. I'm not seeing any evidence of "precision" here, just a bunch of tire smoke and some very impressive engine numbers, stuffed into an ugly body, made much better by a lowered stance.


    Sorry. It's still not a winner.


    If it makes you feel better, though, I still like it more than the Challenger.

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    Image of It's a Camaro It's a Camaro
    06/09/09

    @Deartháir - Now with more SingoFinger™!: Not trying to be a dick or anything, but for the cost of the Camaro, what other car would you rather pick up? Just curious.
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    06/09/09

    @Deartháir - Now with more SingoFinger™!: Does this Camaro make my butt look big?
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/09/09

    @kumbayacars: I'd take a G8 GT and about $10,000 in upgrades. (It's my only option, as the GXP isn't available up here.)


    It's essentially the same car, but it's actually, you know, attractive.

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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    06/09/09

    In reply to 562 HP Hennessey HPE550 Camaro: First Test
    It's still a poster child for model bloat...just with more powah.
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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    06/09/09

    @engineerd has lost the funny:
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    Image of Deartháir II Deartháir II
    06/09/09

    @engineerd has lost the funny: I'm not even sure that it's a poster child for model bloat so much as... really it's just a lardass. The last Camaro was a lardass too, but at least it didn't look like it as much as this one does. It just looks bloated and overweight. Whether it actually IS or not is almost irrelevant, it's just visually too fat.
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    Image of engineerd engineerd
    06/09/09

    @Deartháir - Now with more SingoFinger™!: Hence the poster childness.


    Sure, nearly every car on the road is a bloated form of its ancenstors. Hell, I saw a new MINI parked next to a classic Mini the other day and was somewhat astonished at how huge the new one looked. However, you don't notice it so much when they aren't sitting next to each other.


    The new Camaro and Challenger both look bloated even when in an empty parking lot or driving down the road alone. That's my problem with them.


    The Mustang, too, is larger than it's 1960's granddaddy, but it doesn't look heavy. It still manages to keep a svelte figure (to steal a wording from Dearthair) while the Camaro and Challenger look like the hot girl in high school whose a fat pig at the reunion.

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    Image of Syrax Syrax
    06/09/09

    @Deartháir - Now with more SingoFinger™!: That's the same feeling I have with the new CL65.
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    06/09/09

    In reply to 562 HP Hennessey HPE550 Camaro: First Test
    How much? 150 or 200 thousand dollars?


    Regardless, it is impressive.


    And I don't think the redneck jokes apply to the new Camaro, but I was wondering, will they be making an IROC version?

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