Video: watch two Camaro ZL1s tear up the 'Ring

The new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 is an angry, angry car. With a 640bhp/640lb ft 6.2-litre supercharged LT4 motor from the Corvette Z06 slotted into the engine bay, it’s a step up from your normal Camaro and just one rung down from the highly anticipated Z/28. It also looks quite shouty.

And after seeing test footage of two cars pounding round the Nurburgring, we’re now really excited about having a go for ourselves as it may be even angrier than we first thought.

Hit play, listen carefully and you’ll figure out the red car is fitted with the new ten-speed automatic gearbox (developed with Ford and a version of which will appear in the F-150 Raptor later this year), while the blue car has an analogue six-speed self-stirrer with active rev matching and a sixth gear overdrive. Whichever way you like your gears changed, it sounds really good.

Using the same new platform as the Cadillac ATS and CTS, the new ZL1 inherits all of the goodies we know and love on both those cars. The active MR damping, the massive rigidity, Performance Traction Management, launch control, etc.

With that Corvette-sourced engine, the new ZL1 has 60bhp more than the outgoing car, in a package that weighs a full 200lb less.

The stats sound good, the car, even better. Listen for yourself as both cars hop over a crest, dive onto the brakes, pitch into the famous banked carousel and hammer round the Green Hell at quite an alarming rate. No wonder it’s internally nicknamed ‘The Hammer’.