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Originally Posted by iraghava Boss all said & done this is nothing but speculation. Until Chevy does come out with the Blue Devil or a version with the pre-requsities there is no surety of what time the Corvette will do with the Competition spec tyres.
Whereas, the Porsche's have been doing this for years. They are independently authenticated figures on stock cars and like it or not they are the leaders in Engineering in today's car makers. Look at the advancements they make every time they launch a new generation of cars & the motorsport laurels they have won over the years for proof. IIRC they are the manufacturer to have won the Le Mans maximum number of times.
Look at some of their recent techincal achievements:
1. Silica/Carbide clutch in the CGT with astonishingly low-weight & benefits.
2. Carbon/Ceramic brakes on Production cars.
3. VGT Turbos on Petrol Engines.
Some of these might have faced intial issues but note that they are the company to introduce all these features for the first time on their production cars.
To be fair for the money that the Corvette is sold for it's unbeatable VFM but for a lot of people VFM is not the only thing. Some might actually prepare the refinement, advanced development & technologies of the Porsche's over the Corvette. I know I do even if I can't afford either right now. |
I did read your post and i do know that porsche is a great engineering house but sometimes you dont need over the top engineering to be on the top and thats what corvette team has shown. Some tech that goes into ferrari 599 was developed in a corvette..
also the point that i mentioned about tires was for the Z06 and is no speculation, i laid down the proof for you. As for the SS, if we are to believe the man who is responsible for the machines you will clearly see without a shadow of doubt that the SS will anhilate the CGT on a track, like i said I have been involved with people who can afford all these mad machines from GT3 RS to 997 Turbo to Z06 to F430 and CGT and SLRs and they all say there is hardly any diff if any between the Z06 and the higher priced cars. the only diff i already pointed out, the fit and finish which you can change for a mere 20-30k(maybach quality, hand stiched and everything) and road feel, which could be had with change in suspension for something like 4-5k which still leaves you with a ton of money in your pocket. But i know its not always about how fast you are when you are buying the high $$ cars, so i never say that i compare them that way but in pure performance, sorry it is extreemly tough beating a corvette..
BTW it actually shows poor on porsche that after such high $$ and high quality mods (1,2,3) they still are only an inch away from a vette..so your pointing out the advantages really didnt do any good for porsche, if it would have made it miles ahead of the corvette, it would have made a ton of sense..even these high $$ mods go in their super expensive CGT, so it is awesome that they gave us these technologies but the vette team showed us that you could still be about there without one of those high tech machinery..
Last edited by 1Day : 17th April 2007 at 03:27.
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