* Z06 Corvette...the reviews are out...not so hot?

[Craig 930 RS]

R&T:

"(Steering)........ is uncomfortable though, with sharp bumps in mid-turn, resulting in steering kickback and a little sideways bobble that saps confidence and throws your rhythm. THe same wouldn't happen in a Ferrari F430 or Ford GT, two lofty targets to which the Z06 aspires"

C&D:

"As benign as the Corvette handles, the chassis still moves around and takes some getting used to. Some cars, like the Porsche 911, provide an instant confident feeling that the Z06 does not impart"

After reading both articles, one gets the impression that they are less impressed than they thought they would have been --

Still, I'd take this "Blue Collar Supercar" if someone offered it...

[DG624]

All that style and pushrods...l saw this car at Mid-Ohio and couldn't get any information on the standard features or modifications from last year. I seemed to know more than the sales people.

[twin plugged targa]

Drove my bosses daughters Cab couple of weeks ago- seemed fine to me!!
she promised to loan it to me for a week or two this month!!
will try and post a few pics
rgds Ben

[yasir]

Originally posted by twin plugged targa
Drove my bosses daughters Cab couple of weeks ago- seemed fine to me!!
she promised to loan it to me for a week or two this month!!
will try and post a few pics
rgds Ben

Be careful with the bosses daughter sorry i meant bosses daughter's car

[89911]

Words are words. Time is another thing and being that it has the 2nd fastest time behind the Carrera GT at Nurburing means plenty more to me then opinions.

[Craig 930 RS]

Yet the impressions and senses which make a car fun to drive while objectively "getting the job done" while behind the wheel makes for a better, more rewarding, experience.

[EdT82SC]

Originally posted by 89911
Words are words. Time is another thing and being that it has the 2nd fastest time behind the Carrera GT at Nurburing means plenty more to me then opinions.

That ranking must be only for street cars. I can't imagine either of those cars beating every race car that has ever been on the ring....

[KobaltBlau]

Steering kickback? I can't imagine what that would be like ....

[Matt Holcomb]

The Z06 looks like an extremely well engineered, tightly packaged sports car, chock-full of cool technology. Second only to the Carrera GT around the Nurburgring?

At $68K, it's the performance bargain of the century! I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

Heck, I'd even have one over the yet-to-be-released 997 GT3.

[WydRyd]

I like it! Looks like a mean f*cker, with performance to match

[Todd Simpson]

LOL

[ianc]

Are those titanium pushrods! Wow!

Can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear...

ianc

[kqw]

Originally posted by Matt Holcomb
At $68K, it's the performance bargain of the century! I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

Hold of a year to buy one, you can probably pick one up for $48K.

[vanwyk4257]

I'd buy one to drive in the winter so I didn't get road salt on my Porsche! They are impressive, but they're still just a glorified GM product. They lack the soul that a 911 etc. has.

[MOMO3.2]

I should take the time to research this, but I thought the Carrera GT's "fastest production car time" at the Ring was eclipsed by a Lotus 7 clone with a Honda S2000 motor. The Lotus 7 clone somehow fits into the "production car" catagory.

Anayway that would make the Porsche #2 and the Vette #3...

Mike

[911Velocity]

Originally posted by vanwyk4257
I'd buy one to drive in the winter so I didn't get road salt on my Porsche! They are impressive, but they're still just a glorified GM product. They lack the soul that a 911 etc. has.

I think credit should be given for what GM is trying to accomplish. If you double the price it puts it approx = to a TT. Imagine what could have been done at that level. Give it a year to teeth and then make judgements. More cool fast cars are always better, it improves the breed and spurs competition which helps everybody. I am ecstatic that we are in a BIG HP age that has not been seen since the late 60s early 70s. In spite of +$3.00 gas.
Enjoy it while it lasts.

Best regards,

[tchanson]

Originally posted by vanwyk4257
They are impressive, but they're still just a glorified GM product.

But wait a minute...I learned just this week from Steve Wilkinson that GM is now making "world class" products, rapidly eroding market share notwithstanding.

So it surely must be true.

That being said, the C6 Z06 is the first Corvette built since 1967 that I've ever been remotely interested in. Bonehead Cobalt dealers will suck the holy life out of this thing with markups, though, and without a real world market price advantage, its a far less attractive proposition...

Tim

[sp441]

I don't think gas mileage would be something I would want to compare. My Lt has a 91 vette with some performance mods and a very heavy foot and he gets around 30mpg. I drove a retired troopers 05 vette and he said he gets 32 mpg. Not bad for all that hp.

[ianc]

My Lt has a 91 vette with some performance mods and a very heavy foot and he gets around 30mpg. I drove a retired troopers 05 vette and he said he gets 32 mpg. Not bad for all that hp.

Ummm.... Yeah... I think they are getting their CORvettes and their CHEvettes mixed up when reckoning their fool economy...

ianc

[Formerly Steve Wilkinson]

The ZO6 LT7 engine is the first 500+ hp engine to not be classed a taxable gas guzzler, with a combined mileage of something like 20.6 mpg. Granted, we got 16 mpg (two car writers) over the course of burning two tankfuls last week at the intro in Virginia, but that was with reasonably spirited driving. Not saying we were a pair of Johnny O'Connells, but certainly we weren't lumping around in sixth all day.

Oh, and as for my having said GM is making world-class products, I believe what I said was that the ZO6 is a world-class product, which is quite a different thing.

And yes, the ZO6 "second fastest" Nordschleife time is for production cars. I assume that the quasi-Lotus kit car with the Honda engine, which indeed did beat the CGT time, is not considered to be a true production car.

Stephan
Stephan