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When the Carrera was introduced in 1984, Road and Track did a review and compared times with the 84 Corvette, Lotus, Ferrari, and a few other cars. The Carrera was considerably faster than the 84 Vette - somewhere between a second and half a second faster from 0-60 and topped out at 149 mph vs. about 120. In fact, it was the fasted car available in the US that year. According to that article, the SC was almost a second slower than the Carrera from 0-60, but the old Corvette was much slower than the 84 redesign. In both models, the Corvette tops out at about 110 to 120 while both the SC and the Carrera top out much higher than that.
My brother in law has a 78 Corvette and two friends have mid-70's models. None are slow, but they aren't even in the same class as a Carrera. An SC is clearly faster than Corvettes of the same year, without modifications. I believe the SC can be modified to be even faster than a 72-82 Vette could be modified to do.
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MRM 1984 Carrera Cab Eurospec
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