For muscle car fans, the debate is on. The Chevrolet Camaro made its much-anticipated return for 2010 and is poised to re-ignite the ponycar war with fans of the Dodge Challenger and Ford Mustang.

In SHIFT, you’ll get a chance to drive the production Camaro SS, which is powered by a massive, 6.2-liter (or, in muscle car terms, 376ci) V8, with the manual version pumping out 420 horsepower and the automatic getting 400.

Both engines are very close in a ¼ mile run, with the automatic transmission mated to an L99 having one-tenth of a second – 13.3 versus 13.4 - advantage over the stickshift on the LS3. You can’t go wrong with either, but give the Camaro SS a whirl in SHIFT to find out.

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