2022 Chevy Camaro 2SS: Is The Camaro Still Worth A Look?

Oh, that overdrive. Hey everyone, it's Ben Hardy here, and in today's video, we're gonna be going over a 2022 Chevy Camaro 2SS. First and foremost, though, a huge shout out and thank you to the Lerich-Miller Chevy here in Murray for giving me some time with this Camaro. Check out their intern link below. Let's get right into the video. Under the hood, we have a Nachi aspirated 6.2 liter V8 that goes through a 10 speed automatic transmission, fuel economy 16 around town, and then 26 on the highway with power outputs being 455 horsepower and then 455 pound feet of torque. Let's go to the front end of the 2SS. So first off, we have this accenting here in the center, which looks fantastic. It's also functional. And then coming down below, we've got the LED lights with the accent light coming off to the side. And then notice how we have the SS logo right next to it. We've got the blacked out Chevy bow tie with the whole performance front fascia. It looks really aggressive. We've got more accenting off here to the side. And yeah, overall, I mean, you can see the front end of the car just looks amazing and aggressive. Coming around the side here, we've got two 45 millimeter tires wrapped around 20 inch wheels in the front, and then two 75 millimeter tires wrapped around 20 inch wheels in the rear. And then you can see with the design of the wheels, all blacked out and you have that regular star shape. I think it looks fantastic. Red brake caliper as well. Got the Camaro logo here on the side. And then also everything's pretty much body painted except obviously around the windows. And then same setup in the rear with the red brake caliper and all that fun stuff. And then you guys can see here with the full side view. Now here's our key fob for the 2SS. Got the Chevy logo on the back. You got the unlock, lock, remote start. And then you press that twice and that'll pop open the trunk area. And then you can see with the opening on it, pretty small, but once you pop in, decent amount of storage space inside the trunk area. And well, that's all for that. So pop back down and it's good. Now finishing things up here in the rear, you guys can see we have a pretty aggressive spoiler here on the back and doesn't pop up crazy high like we have on the ZL11LE, but you know, it still pops up. And then you can see the LED taillights, which look fantastic. You got the SS logo here. And then you guys can see the parking sensors integrated here into the bumper. And then the exhaust tips. You guys can probably hear the V8 rumble a little bit, which is a fantastic. We'll get an exhaust clip later, but that's all for the back. Now here's the door panel at the front. So notice we have the padding right here with the stitching and then more leather down below. It's all red. And then the accent lighting as well. Window controls right here. Memory seats, door lock and unlock. The mirrors do a blind spot monitoring. And then that's for the Bose sound system. Got the Camaro logo. And then I'm not gonna pop in the back seats, but you guys can see nice leather back there. Got the red and the black accenting. And well, we have red seatbelts, which look great. SS logo, perforated leather, red stitching. We got power adjustments on the seats. And then you can see you've got the pedals just down below. That's have a heads up display as well. And there's one more look before we pop in. But here is our steering wheel. We've got really nice leather here on the side and then just down below. And notice it's perforated so you get a better grip. Red stitching, which looks fantastic. Pedals for that 10 speed automatic. Cruise control, heated steering wheel button right there. And then controls here for the center stack. Volume controls. And then notice how it says SS there at the bottom. And then we have our turn signal slash light stock, windshield wiper stock. And that's all for the steering wheel. Now here is the center gauge cluster. There's a few different menus we can scroll through here. To give you different bits of information here on the car. And then you can go to the side as well. You can see the different stuff you can go through. And then on the other side, you've got even more menus to go through. So there's quite a bit there. And we do have some different drive modes. We've got our touring, sport, track, snow and ice to go into. And well, that's all for the center stack. Here's the infotainment system. First off, we pop it into reverse. Got a backup camera with trajectory lines. They do turn with the steering wheel, which is great. Resolution on the camera is also good. And then as for the rest of the infotainment system, response time on the screen is great. And you guys will notice the ambient lighting changed color, pretty fancy stuff. If you're wondering how to change that, first off, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay within it. You just have to go to the ambient lighting tab. And I think what we're gonna do is we're gonna put it red, but we can actually link it to drive mode. So it'll change the ambient lighting based on the drive mode that you're in, which is also pretty cool. Analog controls here for the infotainment system. And then we have dual zone climate, heated, cold seats here for the front. And then you can see you control the temperature with the vents, which is definitely a cool feature to have. There's the shifter for the 10-speed automatic. Again, it has a manual shift function or stability control, drive mode select. That's for the parking brake, 12 volt. Got some cup holder action happening here, center console. You can see the storage space there. We've got the nice red stitching. And then you guys can see the padding and stitching up above. And then we have the glove box right here. Pretty normal stuff. And last but not least, we have a center here at the top, and we have my favorite feature of all time, camera mirror, which is great for the Camaro because visibility in this car is not the best. Now here is the window sticker for this Camaro. Again, 2022 Camaro 2SS. Feel free to freeze the frame if you want to read through the equipment that this particular car has. You can see the base MSRP, and then you can see the options added on this particular one. Total MSRP, $48,860. Let's take her out and see how she drives. Let's talk about visibility before we set off here in the 2SS Camaro. There's visibility of the hood and you can see the heads up display, both of the mirrors, and the rest of the rear. And all that being said, let's set off. Oh, we are setting off here in the 2SS Camaro. And first off, let's talk about the road noise and the ride quality. So in this touring mode, pretty much it's like a little luxury car. It's very comfortable. Definitely could daily drive. It's quiet as well. You do hear a little bit of road noise, but it's not too bad. I wouldn't call it, I wouldn't call the noise on the luxury car level. The ride quality is definitely luxury car-esque, but the road noise, it's relatively loud. Aside from that, seat comfort's great. These seats are really comfortable, supportive. The heated seat function is definitely welcome. It is pretty cold today. I should say tonight, because it's obviously getting past sunset at this point. But yeah, so far it's a comfortable car and it's easy to drive. And so it's all great. I'm going to pop it over to the sport mode now. Instantly downshifted. See what the steering is like here. Brakes are good. That is for sure. Steering's tight. Direct too. Yeah, it's solid so far. So I've got it in the manual mode here. I'm going to start it a second just because it's 39 degrees outside. This will be a partial acceleration. Ooh, an overdrive. Listen to the pops. Beautiful. Gotta love a naturally aspirated V8. I mean, the ZL1 does this too. It's a supercharger, but still. Gotta love big V8s, I guess. Be sad to see these engines go. But yeah, I mean, it's good. We'll get a real acceleration here now. I'll kind of make sure there's no one. Of course there's someone behind me. We'll get another acceleration. We'll get a real acceleration up here in a little bit. But let's start summing things up here with the 2SS. So first off, exterior-wise, I think it's a really good looking car. It's aggressive. And yeah, I'd say that I like how it looks. Interior-wise, the 2SS is really nice. The ambient lighting brings it up. You know, the leather with the seats and on the door panel and all that kind of stuff, it makes it feel like you're in a really nice interior, especially considering this is a muscle car. Muscle cars typically aren't known for having the nicest of interiors. And then from a driving perspective, it's comfortable. You put it in touring mode and it's basically a luxury car. And then you throw it into the sport mode and it comes alive. And the cool thing about this 10-speed that it will show is it has the downshift function, where when you hold down the minus paddle, it'll go into the lowest possible gear. So I'll do that right here. Sounds gnarly. So we're gonna get our turn here and then we'll get one more acceleration and I'll give the 2SS a score. Turns so tight. Okay, kind of punch it here a little bit. Oh, that overdrive. Listen to that. It's like a Jaguar F-Type R. That is beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Pop it back into the touring mode right there. So giving the 2SS a score. So I just did the LT1 and I said that an LT1 base model is like a nine out of 10. I'm gonna put this at an even score, the base model LT1. The reason I'm doing that is the LT1 I reviewed was like 43 grand. This is five grand more and has a much nicer interior. I feel like it looks just as nice on the outside. Same engine, same performance. Just has more features for only five grand more. So I feel like it's just a really good value and it's a really fun car. And it sounds just incredible. That overdrive is just top-notch. Absolutely love it. It's the 2SS. That's gonna sum things up for our video on this 2022 2SS Camaro. Again, a huge shout out and thank you to the Larry Chmieler Chevy here in Murray for giving me some time with the Camaro. Check out the inventory link below. I'll see all of you in the next video.