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Now time for the awaited driving experience review of mine. But right before I do that... I wanted to say what the "event" i mentioned earlier is. I got contact by Chevy Communications, whom were also the brainchild of this whole weekend. Their marketing division to be exact and they will be featuring me as well as the vehicle for their quarterly magazine release. They are sending out a journalist my way soon to do this article, I do not have any dates or anything yet as the journalist will be contacting me this week or next week at the latest!!! This whole deal is getting crazier and crazier... I haven't seen it yet but even CNN got wind of it too... I did know Fox News did along side of many other places lol.

Anyways....

Where to begin, I currently have 460 miles on the odo. Picked the vehicle up @ the Texas Motor Speedway with 3 miles on the odo with a half tank of gas which was most likely THE first fill up at the factory haha. Then proceeded to drive to Huffines Chevy Lewisville to finish paper work and then went to my great friend Hughes' house where in the pictures you do see my vehicle behind a Volt and C7 z51 lurking in the darkness. These were relatively short drives, 30-35 minutes to the dealership and 15 minutes to my buddy's house. My initial impressions of those short drives were that the vehicle was extremely balanced, clutch is extremely smooth and REALLY easy to adjust to unlike how my evo X 5 speed was. I didn't even stall the camaro once, sooooo easy to drive.

Interior is EXTREMELY spacious, yall saw the videos and pictures. I am 6'2 and 260 pounds, not a small dude by any means and I was EXTREMELY comfortable in that thing. Now, you won't see me trying to go into the back seat... But the back seat was meant for a place for your bags and not human beings but that is a different story. Driving position, seats, head space (i still have a good 5 inches above my head, seat height is the lowest setting and NO sunroof), arm and leg room is FANTASTIC. I have driven 2014 and a 2015 camaro v6 as rentals for about 5 days total and compared to that, gen 6 is so much more comfortable and relaxing as well. The door handles (inside), infotainment system box were plastic as well as some other places which seems cheap when you touch them however they are visually very pleasing AND when you do think about the rest of the interior, this is essentially a less than 40k vehicle. Not a BMW m3/m4/m5 or Merc AMG which all cost 60/70k + so truly no one should really complain. The seats are great quality, arm rest, knee pads (why didn't we have this in every single vehicle!!!!????), the steering wheel as well as the shifter are great quality which truly did please me. Now that I got a road trip out the way with it, I can say that I can EASILY go on road trips with this vehicle. Our trip was from brunchin Dallas, to Wichita Airport (where the truck was and had to pick it up lol), then to my father in laws place then to dinner and finally back home. A small mention to onstar (my very first vehicle with it), the HUD and the apple car play (my wifes phone, I havent even sync'd mine yet, been busy haha) are all FANTASTIC stuff. I still haven't done anything about the light spectrum or phone syncing or playing with the electronic side of things. I will probably end up doing that tomorrow or soon. Depends.

Even though the road trip was NOT as efficient as it could've been, as in... I could've just hit TOUR mode, put it in the 6th gear then just drive but I did not. I followed the break-in guides as much as I could as thanks to Sledgehammer for posting the manual, it was embedded into my brain. I have constantly changed my speed, RPMs, gears as well as just taking a side road for a little bit that ran adjacent to i35. The MPG ratings honestly were pretty bad to the reality of things. I ended up getting 23 mpg out of my trip and ONE tank of gas. I did NOT have to gas up AT ALL. 430 miles and I still have a little above empty fuel level. For about 20 miles, I was actually averaging (straight away, 6th gear, tour mode, no cruise control) 32 mpg which is just damn impressive. 6.2L v8, no AFM, m6 so I am sure we will end up getting 28-30 mpg easy unless there is quite a bit of hill climbing.

A couple of gripes that I could have had bothered me would be, yes... There is still a massive blind spot in the vehicle. Not as bad as the gen5 coupes but honestly, you can't say it is better either lol. I come from driving sedans to my very first couple. HOWEVER, I do have the 2SS with blind spot assist and that thing right there... Is absolutely an amazing system. If you set your mirrors just right, the system actually detect another vehicle coming and starts to light up before the vehicle is actually in your blind spot, so even without the system you could see a vehicle in your blind spot thanks to the mirror design. WITH the system however, you just become lazy as hell and just look if the light is flashing or not LOL. Another thing to "gripe" about would be the infotainment system is actually tilted down and not straight or towards the driver. HOWEVER, once you spend some time in the vehicle you do get very used to it and it does NOT bother you anymore. The usage of it is still very ergonomic and also since it is tilted down, there is absolutely NOT glare onto it from ANYWHERE.

And now... the performance!!! I figured I would write the performance part last to drive yall crazy as if I already wasn't LOL. Short version? IT IS AMAZING. I have been driving 480/500hp+ evos for the past 5 years and LT1 is just absolutely amazing. M6, the steering wheel and the LT1 actually go together like the perfect harmony they truly are and when you add the NPP with MRC it truly becomes mind blowing. Changing up the driver modes, it effects a lot of characteristic of the driving. Tour mode is your basic, chill mode. With NPP butterflies closing up, throttle response being extremely linear, it truly becomes a cruiser. When you kick the mode into Sport, steering wheel becomes stiffer, a little bit more responsive, throttle response becomes faster, NPP butterflies open up and you can start to really hear the LT1 growl and you start feeling the bumps a bit more than tour mode. Now when you kick it into track more... Shit just gets flat out real. Steering wheel is STIFF like morning wood (excuse my French but I really had to), throttle becomes insanely responsive (car actually kicks you in the lower back every time you feather the throttle), you now REALLY feel every single tiny little bump on the road. The different modes are TRULY DIFFERENT and YOU CAN TELL the difference as well. I have of course have NOT redlined the vehicle at all unless you count 3900rpm as redline lol. I will be doing my break in process as good as possible, do my oil change and actually start driving the vehicle. I can tell you that in track mode, in 3rd gear you can break traction on a straight road, you can easily break traction in first or second gear while turning but the traction system is absolutely fantastic, recovers the car within a second or two.

Before I had this experience with the gen6 SS and C7, I used to think people were crazy for at least not getting their vehicles an intake/xpipe or catback and a tune at least because vehicles are soooo restricted and truly not that much enjoyable because with a tune, they do change your throttle response which is the fun part. But with the LT1, and the way they have designed these cars... I truly can say that you can actually drive the car BONE STOCK and STILL enjoy the hell out of it!

Since I decided to write this tonight as I couldn't sleep instead of tomorrow like I planned to... I apologize for the terrible writing and I will edit it tomorrow even more lol. If you guys have ANY questions at all, please feel free to ask me and I will do my best to answer it!!!!

~ Turk