Burnout Fest! 2013 Shelby GT500 and 2012 Camaro ZL1 Road Trip - HOT ROD Unlimited Episode 15 - video Dailymotion

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00:00 Brand new Camaro ZL1, brand new Mustang GT500.

00:05 You've seen it before.

00:06 Pretty much everyone knows that car handles better, this one's faster in a straight line.

00:10 So we're not going to bother with that test.

00:12 Instead, we're a couple of muscle car guys, we're just going to find out which car's playing

00:16 more fun.

00:17 We're taking a road trip to Speed World Drag Strip in Arizona, which is at risk of closing,

00:22 and that can't happen.

00:23 So we're going to drag race these cars there and be really irresponsible along the way.

00:37 We're just installing radar detectors because the company doesn't pay for speeding tickets,

00:41 or bail.

00:42 In the patent, it just says, "Plug in a cigarette lighter, drive like a jerk."

00:56 Wow.

00:58 I've never had a radar detector before.

01:00 Ford conveniently put this 12-volt power outlet right in the middle of the dash to plug in

01:05 your radar detector.

01:06 I think they knew.

01:08 So my favorite thing about the Camaro, probably, from the driver's perspective, is the heads-up

01:13 display.

01:14 That's just cool.

01:16 Because some of these gauges, like the ones down here on the console, are completely useless.

01:21 Last thing I'm going to do at 160, 70, 80 miles an hour is look down to see how much

01:25 boost this thing's making.

01:27 But at least the heads-up display will tell me how fast I'm going right before I die.

01:31 It's good info.

01:33 I actually like the interior in the Mustang much better.

01:35 I can see the dash, which is a big problem for me in the Camaro.

01:39 The factory Recaro seats are awesome, and I really like the vintage '69-looking stitch

01:45 pattern on them.

01:47 The dashboard looks almost like a '67 or '8.

01:50 The steering wheel's cool.

01:51 I like that the bottom of it's flat, kind of racy.

01:53 It makes it easy to get in and out of the car.

01:55 Shift knob's cool.

01:57 This feels less plasticky than some of the other new cars I've been in.

02:00 If you're going to drop this much money on a car, it shouldn't feel like plastic.

02:04 It should caress you in soft, supple leather.

02:07 Or suede.

02:11 The shifter, however, fairly sub-average.

02:13 I have a hard time bang-shifting this thing.

02:16 It's notchy, like right before gear engagement.

02:18 It's almost like there's two motions to get in every gear.

02:22 It bugs me.

02:23 Fuel economy.

02:24 Why?

02:25 You know, it's interesting there's this big battle over which of these cars has better

02:30 top speed.

02:31 I know all the Ford guys are saying this Mustang runs 200 factory stock.

02:35 The thing is, there's really no place you can do that.

02:39 It takes like five miles, something like that, to get one of these things up to speed.

02:44 Up to 200.

02:47 That's high risk of both death and arrest.

02:51 Like high risk.

02:52 So we're basically fiddling around with what they're like to drive on the street.

02:56 Drag strip.

02:57 Having fun.

02:58 Sliding around.

02:59 Doing burnouts.

03:00 Let's be professionals about this.

03:08 Professionals about this?

03:09 There's no part of this show that's professional.

03:10 I was hoping you'd tell me how to act like one.

03:12 Okay.

03:13 Well, act like a guy trying to find out which one of these cars sounds better.

03:16 Alright.

03:17 Okay.

03:18 I have a feeling we're going to get real used to this scenario.

03:45 Gas station.

03:48 I'm prepared for science.

03:51 We have the three basic styles of road trip cups.

03:54 You have your 44 ouncer, your 32, and your tapered 44, or 32 or whatever that is.

04:01 And the thing about these cars is that the cup holder's in the console and it always

04:04 either isn't big enough or it hits your arm while you're shifting.

04:08 Or it won't hold it.

04:09 Okay, there's actually two different diameters of cup holders in the Mustang.

04:13 And I have to say it's doing a mighty fine job of holding the tapered cup.

04:18 Here, hand me the bladder buster.

04:20 I sense a fail coming on.

04:21 Yeah, I'm going to call this acceptable.

04:24 That's good.

04:25 Now let's go with the full on 44 ouncer.

04:27 It does fit in the rear cup holder.

04:29 So the only next challenge is whether you can bang shift with that in there or not.

04:33 Okay, moving on to the Camaro.

04:34 We'll start easy.

04:35 Oh, it also has two different diameters, except for in this case, the large one's in the front.

04:40 Okay.

04:42 That's looking pretty good.

04:43 That's looking pretty good.

04:44 Although you will note, there is no chance you would fit two of these in the car.

04:48 That's something we need to check on the Mustang.

04:49 If you have a buddy with you, that's not going to work.

04:52 See, you try and get this in there and that's just, that's not cool.

04:55 The medium fits in.

04:56 Now let's go for the bladder buster.

04:58 Nope.

04:59 Fail.

05:00 Camaro is fail on bladder buster.

05:03 All right.

05:04 Well, all that's left is the bang shift test.

05:08 Oh, you missed the second.

05:16 Oh, that was bad.

05:20 Okay, cup holder test, fail.

05:26 Suede seats are not going to be that good.

05:33 I didn't mangle my cup, but I did miss second in a horrible way.

05:36 Yuck.

05:37 So, I guess the conclusion there is that you can drive these things with the cups in it

05:43 as long as you don't want to be a hot rodder.

05:45 I'm not a greedy guy.

06:08 I don't ask for a lot.

06:09 All I wanted to do was go drag racing tonight.

06:11 I know.

06:12 But we made it.

06:13 We're going to Speed World.

06:14 Made it just in time for the rain.

06:15 Yeah, I made it just in time for the killer thunderstorm, which isn't happening right

06:22 now, but it got wet enough that they had to shut down the track for the night.

06:26 So, we're not going to be able to run the Camaro and the Mustang.

06:29 But we're having fun anyway.

06:30 We'll figure out something to do.

06:36 Just kidding.

06:37 We're going racing.

06:38 It is the next day.

06:39 It is not thunderstorming.

06:41 And the bitchin' guys here at Speed World opened up the track on a special deal so that

06:44 we could make some laps.

06:45 We're putting on drag radials.

06:46 We got these killer Mickey Thompsons and Ford Racing sent us some wheels for the Mustang.

06:50 We got some used wheels for the ZL1.

06:52 We're going to have sticky meats.

06:54 Hook these things up.

06:57 So, competition to see who can drive them quicker, right?

07:00 You're going down.

07:01 Okay.

07:02 I bank gears like nobody.

07:03 I do too.

07:04 I just miss them when I'm driving the Mustang.

07:06 That's a problem.

07:07 These are going to heat, soak, and slow down.

07:08 So whoever drives each car first is going to win.

07:11 So who's going to drive what first?

07:12 You miss gears in the GT500 and the Camaro's probably slower.

07:16 So let's just rock, paper, scissors.

07:18 Okay.

07:19 Rock, paper, scissors.

07:20 Smash!

07:21 Mustang!

07:22 Okay.

07:23 First drag race with Freiburger.

07:24 154 degree inlet air temp.

07:26 Not good.

07:27 None of that matters if you can't find second gear, dude.

07:29 I might not ever find second gear in this thing.

07:31 I hope for your sake you have some sort of strategy.

07:34 I'm not going to get fancy until I can figure out where the second gear is on this little

07:38 doohickey in the console here.

07:40 I don't blame you.

07:42 Loser buys dinner.

07:45 And I'd like a steak.

07:46 Thank you.

07:47 I'm going to win.

08:12 And that's what happens when you forget to turn the launch control on.

08:29 You lose, punk ass, and you're buying dinner.

08:31 Woohoo!

08:32 Oh no, that's by average at the end of the day.

08:35 That's not this one path.

08:36 Oh no, that was that one path.

08:38 You lose, you're buying dinner.

08:40 Woohoo!

08:41 You're a cheating SOB.

08:42 You went red by almost three tenths of a second.

08:44 That's a test day.

08:46 That's why God invented Christmas trees, to keep guys from leaving early.

08:48 Yeah, see the RPM limit on the launch control does not work.

08:52 A 2360 foot and a 20 for you.

08:55 Here's what sucks is I kicked your ass all the way to a thousand feet and then had to

08:59 shift into fourth right before the lights and that's when you catch me.

09:02 If I didn't have to shift one more time down there, I'd be winning by a lot.

09:07 Seriously.

09:08 If you're 1269 and you're walking around cocky, 1270 and I'm even arguing with you?

09:12 That's what guys who come in second say to themselves to make themselves feel better.

09:16 So you're winning!

09:17 So you're plenty proud of your 1269 out of that 11 second car.

09:20 Oh, hell yeah.

09:21 I keep looking at the inlet air temperature, which this tells you on the dash, it's 160

09:26 degrees when I leave the starting line.

09:28 Blowers don't like that.

09:30 This thing's not making power.

09:31 I didn't know Africa was this sticky.

09:59 It's pretty sticky.

10:01 Explain to me why it's this sticky and we couldn't make either car hook up.

10:04 Well, it's a matter of physics.

10:06 It's 150 degree track temperature is part of the problem.

10:09 Physics.

10:10 And it was 113 degrees out and making no power.

10:12 Physics.

10:13 Yeah, so essentially we're disappointed in our performance at the drag strip, but I think

10:17 Finnegan's got to be more disappointed than I am because I did run the lowest ET, the

10:22 highest mile an hour and had the best reaction time.

10:24 So I win.

10:26 Which car were you in?

10:27 The lighter one with the more horsepower?

10:28 We both drove both of them, right?

10:30 That was it.

10:31 We both drove both.

10:32 You made 87 laps in the Mustang and right at the end went, here, this thing's heat soaked,

10:35 make one or two.

10:36 Well, but it didn't matter how many laps you made when you miss every gear on every pass.

10:40 You know, he misses first.

10:42 It's so bad.

10:46 You got nothing.

10:47 I'm sore.

10:48 You got nothing.

10:49 I'm sore.

10:50 Yeah, we proved it.

10:51 You're a Camaro driver.

10:52 Oh yeah.

10:53 That's what we proved.

10:54 I kick ass in the Camaro.

10:56 You're okay in the Mustang.

10:57 So bottom line, the cars are way slower than they should have been because of track conditions.

11:02 We ran 12.44 in the Mustang and 12.69 in the Camaro.

11:06 Okay, so that's roughly what, eight tenths slower than either one of them should be?

11:10 Yeah, I've been three tenths faster in that Mustang than we went today.

11:15 But dude, it's 105 degrees out.

11:17 So now we make our own fun on the way home, right?

11:20 Burnouts and donuts.

11:21 Donuts.

11:22 If I don't blow out a flip flop on the way out of here.

11:23 Good luck with that.

11:24 All right.

11:24 Hey, we lived.

11:53 We didn't get arrested, even though your cloud of Goodyear smoke is still hanging over

11:58 Arizona someplace.

11:59 These cars should have come with respirators.

12:01 That's all I'm saying, dude.

12:03 They're good at making smoke.

12:04 That's what they're both really good for.

12:05 So overall, you're still taking the Camaro?

12:07 Oh yeah.

12:08 I'm taking it home right now, actually.

12:10 Okay.

12:11 He's a Camaro guy, I'm a Mustang guy.

12:12 We have one more day with this car.

12:13 I'm driving it home.

12:14 It's hard to look out at my Super B and go, "Oh yeah, that's when muscle cars were great."

12:17 It's like, man.

12:18 No, muscle cars are really good right now.

12:20 Yeah.

12:21 Really, really good.

12:22 They're not going to win this unless they put more power in a mixture.

12:25 So basically you can't lose.

12:26 You buy the red car and you win.

12:28 Yes.

12:29 Yes.

Burnout Fest! 2013 Shelby GT500 and 2012 Camaro ZL1 Road Trip - HOT ROD Unlimited Episode 15

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