It's not bias. I have a Gen 6 Camaro as well, which I've mentioned a bunch of times. The Camaro is a nice car, but not on par with what Dodge is doing these days. Dodge is re-writing history with their cars. Chevy is playing it safe plain and simple. I wish Chevy would push the envelope more.
You have a lot of input on this thread and a lot of mods in you're signature, are you tracking your car? If so where? What times (laps or 1/4s)?
Why would Dodge need to chase a 1LE or the ZL1 on a road course with the Demon? They have everyone talking about their current product, that is on a 10 year old platform and still has the headlines. Someone at Dodge made a risky decision and it has paid off big time. The sales of Challenger went up dramatically after the announcement of the Demon as folks just want to be a part of something that big.
Now that they've pretty much conquered the horse power war, I would suspect they'll come out with something that's a road course weapon next. I just hope they leave the Challenger a lone and do it under some other moniker (Cuda?
) You didn't hear that from me
You may get bored in 10 minutes at the drag strip, but I personally wouldn't risk a $60,000 - $70,000 car on a road course. Nor would I want to deal with the upkeep costs and entry fees. I used to road race sport bikes and that was an expensive endeavor at about $600 a weekend by the time I paid for fuel, tires, entry fee, and maintenance. Road course racing a modern performance car will certainly exceed that. My friends that started off there, have since sold their modern car and gone to a $10,000 BMW that's gutted for their road course days, of which several have gotten wadded up.
It's $15 TNT at my local drag strip. My tires last several years as well as brakes. Risk to the vehicle is greatly diminished as well as there are less opportunities for an incident, still there, but diminished. I'll take that all day long.
Most won't ever take their ZL1 to the drag strip much less a road course though. They'll point at the Motor Trend article and claim how much better rounded the ZL1 is without ever finding out what it can do in their own hands. I just don't work like that as I gotta know what I can get it to do.
Same goes for most Hellcat owners I come across as well. Seems pointless to me to have such a powerful car and never see what you can do with it, but to each their own as they say.
We're way off topic but I love talking cars and their pros and cons.
One of these days I'm gonna do a video comparo of my Challenger and Camaro. It's amazing how right each manufacturer got some items while completely missing the boat on others. For example, the Hellcat has a freaking foot pedal as the parking brake LOL. The Camaro's push button is much more elegant. The Camaro digital dash has a boat load of wasted space and the graphics a bit grainy while the Hellcat's digital dash is well utilized with all kind of information in various colors and the graphics razor sharp.