Camaro ZL1 Nurburgring Lap Time: 7:41:27 Video

The Camaro ZL1 is proving to be a beast. 40 seconds quicker around the Nurburgring than a Camaro SS, but not quite fast enough to beat the world record currently held by a Dodge Viper.

The new Camaro ZL1 features many impressive upgrades such as 580 horsepower and a street legal factory supercharger. The car was driven on the Nurburgring by an engineer on the Camaro Performance team, who's name is Aaron Link, so a professional race car driver could probably knock off a few seconds here. Not many other cars considered to be in the 2+2 market can break the 8 second Nurburgring barrier, but the Camaro ZL1 made it happen in street trim.

The video above shows the full lap, and it's pretty exciting to watch, especially since the Camaro ZL1 is a production car who's price is within many people's reach.