The Camaro is what happens when Detroit gets muscle cars right: the 6th-gen SS and ZL1 deliver genuine track capability with the 1LE package while holding resale value like few sports cars do, one owner lost just $1,000 after a year and 8,000 miles. The visibility is genuinely terrible, you'll park by Braille, and you'll want the V8 both for the visceral experience and to dodge the V6 stigma at resale. Buy a 6th-gen SS or ZL1 now before production ends for good, skip the complaint-heavy 5th-gen unless you enjoy surprise repair bills, and if you've got collector money, a pristine first-gen remains timelessly desirable.
A 4,000-pound couch that'll smoke its tires, seat four adults comfortably, and return 12 mpg if you're having any fun at all. The V8 models deliver genuinely quick acceleration (the supercharged Hellcats are genuinely unhinged), but handling feels like piloting a cruise ship through corners. The real split: if you want a drag strip hero or a comfortable highway bruiser with a killer exhaust note, it's hard to beat. If you want to carve canyons or care about fuel costs, buy literally anything else. The 2023 discontinuation sparked dealer markups that make even Scat Packs cost Hellcat money, so shop carefully or wait for sanity to return.