[clyde]

If you're going to play in Street, you have to be willing to see your class dominating car made irrelevant the next year. If you can get three years out of a Street class car, you're pretty lucky.

The non-1LE 2.0T Camaro is a lot of fun to autocross and it's a shame more people didn't run them (especially last year following Scroggs' annihilation of the rest of the class in 2017). It just had a very small window to be at the top of the pack at the lowest prep level and that window is probably now closed. It can still trophy Nationally at Tours, but Pro Solo is a lost cause (at least if DS continues being indexed with GS in S4).

I wouldn't buy a 2.0T Camaro for Street class autocross today if winning National events was my goal, but it's a fine car for locals. Easy on tires, enough power to be entertaining, tons of fun to drive, and cheap.

The thing that scared me most about 2.0T 1LEs was the wider rear wheel. It doesn't need it and would tend toe make the car more pushy compared to the very neutral handling non-1LE. Not being able to rotate tires front to back without a mount/dismount cycle is another arrow. Maybe the shocks, springs and bars outweigh those? Dunno, but at best, it's just an incremental improvement. I think a set of real shocks on a non-1LE would help more than all the FE3 pieces plus wider rear wheels.

OTOH, if I was looking to buy a cheap new(/ish) car for autocross that can do well locally and be tons of fun to drive...and then maybe build for ESP or CAM to run locally or Nationally, the non-1lE 2.0T Camaro is where I'd start and end my search.

Edit- Ice mode. My car is a 2017. I rarely get into ice mode. Maybe 4 or 5 times in 2 years. My co-driver rarely gets through an event without it. His background trained him to be kind of stabby with the brakes. Mine taught me to smoothly squeeze. It makes a difference.