2016 Chevrolet Camaro Will Have Wheels, Brakes, More Structural Rigidity

Folks, you might as well settle in for the medium haul: Chevrolet’s naughty multi-part tease of the sixth-generation 2016 Camaro leading up to the car’s big debut at May 16 continues. Having already confirmed the latest iteration of the muscle car will get Corvette power, a Cadillac chassis, and weigh less than before, Chevy has revealed yet another nugget of 2016 Camaro info: It’ll be stiffer. Well, its structure will be stiffer, at least.

It’s rare to nonexistent for an automaker to debut a new model and claim that the car’s structure is less stiff than before, and so it goes for the new Camaro. Chevrolet claims the sixth-generation Camaro’s structure is 28 percent stiffer than the fifth-gen model’s. Additionally, Chevy says: “The lighter structure also enabled the size and mass of elements such as the wheels, tires and brakes to be scaled accordingly.”

Peering closely at Chevy’s photos of the Camaro wheels and tires, we can see that at least one version of the muscle car will get Brembo brakes and run-flat Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 2 performance tires, although no size markings are visible. We’re guessing that, similar to Cadillac’s strategy for the ATS (which donates its Alpha platform to the Camaro), for which 18-inch wheels are the biggest you can get, Chevrolet will cap the Camaro’s wheel sizes at 18- or 19-inchers and reducing the total number of options to just two or three diameters. Cadillac says the benefit of this is reduced compromise in the suspension tuning (instead of dialing the suspension for a multitude of wheel sizes, it can tune for just one or two wheel diameters), and as any ride-handling engineer will tell you, smaller, lighter wheels reduce unsprung weight, improving a car’s ride and handling. We’ve found the Cadillac ATS to be an excellent handler, proving that General Motors’ ride/handling gurus certainly know their stuff. This bodes well for the Camaro.

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