Club Arnage

7 Liters, 505 BHP, 198 MPH...Holy sh*t!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/carreviews/10/18/chevrolet_corvette_z06/index.html

Blimey, all that for £37 grand, bargain!

0-60 in 3.7 takes some beating for anything road legal under $500k.

Bring back the Stingray

it must be the performance bargain of the decade.

No doubt, talk about a C6R in sheeps clothing.
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Especially when you compare it like for like to it's track competitor. A DB9 is £100k isn't it?

Excuse me while I wipe the dribble off my keyboard!

I saw one on the road yesterday.

Gorgeous.

Would have been nice if someone had told me about this earlier.

I have just finished spending the £38k I had from work as a bugger off present.

Wasted it all on banks and credit cards, dammnit...

Now that was silly wasnt it ::)

I know GM are deep in the poo financially, when you look at 36k for that, you can see why, its a bargain. Whats the catch?

I'm not an economist by any stretch but I think one reason they're struggling right now is because they've got a bunch of gas-guzzling SUV's laying around that they can't give away, now that petrol has jumped near three bucks a gallon (I now its laughable to you guys but its got people freaking out over here). They don't have a hard time selling Vette's.
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Hmm, perhaps not!

According to an article in the Daily Mail today, Volkswagon have just shown a new car at a Japanese Motor Show, and hope to have it on sale within 3 years.

It has a specially developed 1.5 litre Turbo-Diesel engine, which is claimed to give the car a 0-60 time of only 3 seconds and a top speed of 145 mph ( the car weighs a mere 850 kg) with the outstanding fuel economy of between 85 and 100 mpg  :o

The expected price for this........ £17,000

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if we didnt live in a country where fuel was $8 per gallon when converted to dollars, that would be SUCH a great buy.  I guess you dont buy performance for fuel economy.....

Having had a brief burn (felt brief anyway) in a C5 in the states, I am well and truly turned - planted, pretty, immensley powerful and WHAT an engine noise....the C6 just build on that..... If I could swing a performance company car like some of the guys at work manage, I'd be avoiding the Porsche Garage and heading straight for a garage with one of those in it!

YUMMMMMMMM MY

My better half runs a 2000 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am (as seen and spun at the RAF Marham track day) as her daily driver.

This car has the same generic LS series engine as the C5 / C6 (Chevrolet 5.7 LS1) with a 6 speed manual gearbox.

On a reasonable run, she can manage 26 - 29 miles per UK gallon, which for a 'performance' car isn't too bad - but she does have a company fuel card  ;D

Go on Brad, you know it makes sense.

Is she must be doing something wrong then?  I've seen Mondeos that won't do that

QED.  That's the Blue Oval for you.  I'm a GM man to the core  ;D

She only know's two speeds - Parked and Foot to the Floor.

However, the T56 six speed gear box has two overdrive ratios.  Fifth is 0.75 : 1 whilst sixth is 0.5:1 so the engine is doing half the speed of the transmission.  At 80 mph the engine is doing only 1800 rpm.
This is all part of GM's corporate CAFE strategy to satisfy fuel efficiency legislation.

Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/auto/cafe.html means that you add up all the fuel efficiencys of your entire vehicle range and find the average value, which must be less than a mandated value.

Therefore, as long as you produce a few mini cars and small, highly fuel efficient vehicles, you can build a few gas guzzlers as well.  The 6 speed box helps the total highway fuel economy value for the bigger engines.

I'd still have the ASton. I'd hope better built, hand made, stitched etc .

But at such a low price, why cant them import them here, sports car  capital of the world for £45k. There would be a big que then ?

That VW thing is uuurrrrrgly.