Camaro SS rental car paints new lines on the pavement, like modern art.
This rental car special burnout comes to us from the Thilges1990 YouTube channel and it features a 2018 Chevrolet Camaro SS putting on a quick smoke show. However, the driver doesn’t own this car and he is having the kind of fun that rental car companies frown upon.
Rental Car Fun
Your average rental car agency is unlikely to have awesome options like a 2018 Chevrolet Camaro SS, but the driver in this video has found a rental car company that offers the LT1-powered muscle car. Of course, the rental agreement likely prohibits fun things like burnouts, but rules are made to be broken and the Camaro SS is built to slay tires.
While some people will frown upon roasting the tires in a rental Camaro SS, plenty of us have done it a time or two. In almost every case, it was a ton of fun that the rental company likely never knew about and no one was worse off for it happening. Really, a quick, smoky burnout is likely the least abusive high-performance fun that you can have with a Camaro SS, so it is probably better for the renter to do a burnout than, say, take it autocrossing or drag racing.
The video begins with a brief walk-around of sorts, as the cameraman gets around to the driver’s side of the new muscle car. The driver quickly hammers the throttle and the rear tires spin, instantly creating a cloud of smoke that grows even as the car drives away.
If nothing else, this video shows what kind of burnout we can expect from a factory-stock 2018 Chevrolet Camaro SS with the 8-speed automatic transmission.
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