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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
I'd always heard that pound for pound, insurance on Corvettes is really high - does this still ring true?
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I'm 44 with 1 speeding ticket MORE than full coverage on it and it's $360 every 6 mo in California. We live in a neighborhood where it's 30% higher than Long beach due to a high percentage of Koreans.
My car is a 2006 C6 with the Z51 Track Kit. It has 20% stiffer springs, the z06 front bar ( I added the z06 rear bar) 13.4" front brakes, 12" rears better pads, oil cooler, diff cooler, PS cooler and a tighter gear box ratio, plus a lower rear gear ( not by much)
The car has 80k miles on it, two track days and to be honest it was at Streets of willow springs which favors lighter cars that I couldn't touch had race tires and I was on GEASY run flats.
In 80 k I've had the alternator fail at 54k miles and a belt tensioner fail at 60k
There was a squeek that took 3 visits to the dealer, I fixed it with LIP BAULM at a traffic light.
Tons of torque 26 mpg but it's just a corvette, you deal with tons of corvette jokes and you're on the low rung of the car world Porsche, BMW and Ferrari drivers scoff at you.
I bought it due to the fact that my wife Joanna, lives with MS and needs a wheelchair sometimes. We can fit luggage for two for two days plus a wheelchair in the back! I can fit a 60cm roadbike with the wheels off in the back as well.