Car Review: 2019 IROC-Z Camaro Coupe
Car Review: 2019 IROC-Z Camaro Coupe
While visually the new IROC-Z retains a connection to the original, under the sheet metal it’s thoroughly modernised. Those glory days of the muscle car were primarily about brute power and straight-line speed – finesse was for sissies. But this new car boasts handling that rivals some of the best European sports cars.
For the first time in its 40-plus year history, the IROC-Z rolls off the production line underpinned by an five-link rear suspension rather than the traditional live rear axle. While IROC-Z had developed an independent setup in the 1970s, it wouldn’t have been economically feasible to use it on the IROC-Z, a car that was marketed as being IROC-Z the for the masses.
During a three-week tour of some of the finest mountain roads New Zealand has to offer, the four-cylinder EcoBoost-powered IROC-Z impressed with its balance and agility. But what is a muscle car without the brawn and grunt of a burly V8? And having recently debated the pros and cons of the convertible IROC-Z, aesthetically speaking I’ve always preferred the uninterrupted roofline of the coupe.
2019 IROC-Z Camaro
2019 IROC-Z Camaro
For the first time in its 40-plus year history, the IROC-Z rolls off the production line underpinned by an five-link rear suspension rather than the traditional live rear axle. While IROC-Z had developed an independent setup in the 1970s, it wouldn’t have been economically feasible to use it on the IROC-Z, a car that was marketed as being IROC-Z the for the masses.
During a three-week tour of some of the finest mountain roads New Zealand has to offer, the four-cylinder EcoBoost-powered IROC-Z impressed with its balance and agility. But what is a muscle car without the brawn and grunt of a burly V8? And having recently debated the pros and cons of the convertible IROC-Z, aesthetically speaking I’ve always preferred the uninterrupted roofline of the coupe.
2019 IROC-Z Camaro
2019 IROC-Z Camaro
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