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sultaan: An update on the Viper

sultaan: But there are lots of videos on youtube showing people crashing their Ferrari and Lambos too.I think its a very good car for 1/5 the price of Ferrari

$45k compared to $200k.

All the accidents show drivers going too hard on their throttle, spinning out the wheels.The Corvette is a great track ready car not refined for the roadway,but highway rides low, widetracks and tires.Interior might have too much plastic but the car is all about value and with the ZR1 Corvette it smokes all the $200k plus super cars out there for about half the price($120k).

Corvette is a sport car, not luxury,nor luxury-sport.

There is a reason for some people to buy a Factory Five instead of Mercedes SLS

Trac: Corvettes are cheap cars. It is also part of the counter-culture of the 60's (Rock/Doo-Wop/Motown) and it draws a lot of attention from Americans than other cars would. Many that know nothing about cars may know what a Corvette is. Europeans don't term the Corvette a supercar because it fails to meet a standard plus it is widely known not to be able to "make a turn." I really didn't get your expression as "a household name" but if you meant common, then I cannot vouch for that. I rarely see them. I did see a bunch of them at the Corvette event and it wasn't that big and I was passing by. There is nothing to impress you about those vehicles.




I want to believe you meant the word "civilised."

It is NOT a civilised car -- matter of fact, it is a mess. From an intellectual understanding of a motor vehicle wrt design, this shares the same engineering as a tractor save for light materials/component and more powerful engine, long bonnet and a truncated rear. The recipe is about the same and this includes the suspension also. Some Corvettes now have the magnetic ride (MR) suspension and that about what's good. Suspension is a part of the chassis and cannot make a bad chassis good; how much more excellent.


Civilised??!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9_w8ETrQPc - Watch those that congregated around the scene, taking pictures. The driver's comment can be observed from two aspects. He was either lying - talking from a false outlook or behind the wheel it didn't seem like he was going fast. You have a false sense of security in a Corvette. Part of it is due to its lowered and excessively wider track width and wide tyres: you go from 100% grip to 0% grip with little to no feedback.

The Woodlands

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzlg3oQMze4 - This is how it performs on dry road. What is its portion on wet and icy roads.

Dallas Cars and Coffee event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDi7OSTHbwQ - another display where power cannot be put to the ground.


This is Cars and Coffee event in Houston
To those familiar with the location, nothing can go wrong on that surface road from a standstill and alone to 30mph. It fails to make an angular turn from a standstill on an open legal road on a dry sunny day. When a high-performance car at high-speed bring you to a corner (within its envelope), it is suppose to go round or about that corner. This already has failed at a standstill.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmkntJ96aeo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhaYP6a-G3s



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t70h5NBwBq0& - note - the speed limit is 40mph and a vehicle is done misbehaving in demonstration before it got to half of it.


Rainy day - the driver was trying to display to impress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU7FndBwCP8&



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGeZ-u1JWNw - fails under a rolling linear acceleration


This isn't worth the money no matter how cheap. The technology also is very old. It is not good on road, it isn't good on track. You have to be a professional racecar driver to be able to tame this in its entire "spectrum" for they are the one's with the depth of experience. Don't pay any mind to the reviews you read of the internet. Most of them are not journalists and worse of all, many don't know anything about cars or live with the cars they drive. Some of the cars are poorly tested and then recommended as a "must-have." The Corvette is an over-hyped vehicle and very primitive in design. It is also full of plastic and you will be getting rid of it real quick because it isn't worth the money.


In summary, it is unpredictable in a straight line (under acceleration) and it cannot take a corner: this is in reference to its performance way-below its performance envelope limits. It is not close in performance to the Lambo's or the Ferrari.

Trac: Corvettes are Ferrari imitations. Get the real thing if you can afford it. The Corvette has extremely bad motion dynamics: it gives no warning at limits plus it isn't predictable in a variety of cases.

platinumricky: The C5 corvette had two variants of the 5.7L V8, one was for the regular model and the other was for the high performance Z06.
The 360 modena's 3.6L V8 power output is close to the corvette's (but the C5 smokes it on the straights...). Which lamborghini engine in particular was used as the benchmark?

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