C7 Corvette

[hotrodalex]

Lots of newer automatic cars say screw you and kill the fun of brake torquing.

[MX793]

Search YouTube for "launch control" and you'll see examples of it.

Automatic cars are or can be brake torque'd (floor gas and brake @ same time to load up the torque converter).

I know what brake-torquing is.  That's not "launch control" in the context of modern vehicle discussions.  The C7 Z06 actually has a launch control feature that the driver can engage via a control on either the console or the wheel.

[12,000 RPM]

They just gave Chris Harris the keys to a Speciale to put up against a GT3

They do "comparos" all the time, but they don't let em do track times. Chris does track vids, but not hot laps, so it's fine. The rare times they did allow track times, Luca De Montezemolo came out himself to tune and benchmark the car with Ferrari Scuderia. It's bullshit. I like Ferraris but they are pussy when it comes to track battles.

[SVT666]

[SVT666]

I'm down with the Z06.  It looks so badass.

[hotrodalex]

Looks a lot like the race version in yellow. Cool.

[Payman]

[SVT666]

Z06 Vert doesn't make any sense to me.

[Payman]

Z06 Vert doesn't make any sense to me.

Why not?

[SVT666]

Why not?

It's practically a race car.  A vert doesn't make sense.

[Payman]

It's practically a race car.  A vert doesn't make sense.

I wouldn't buy it to race. I'd buy it to cruise with the top down, drive some nice switchbacks on a sunny day, and enjoy the glorious V8 sounds. The Z06 roadster makes perfect sense to me.

[CALL_911]

If I were in the market for a Z06, I wouldn't buy one, but that's not to say it doesn't make sense. It makes perfect sense.

[Payman]

It's not like people who buy the coupe buy it to race it. 

Besides, the look of the roadster, even with the top up, is pretty amazing to me.

[SVT666]

I wouldn't buy it to race. I'd buy it to cruise with the top down, drive some nice switchbacks on a sunny day, and enjoy the glorious V8 sounds. The Z06 roadster makes perfect sense to me.

Then the Stingray Z51 is perfect for you.  The Z06 is a balls out barely street legal race car.

[Payman]

Then the Stingray Z51 is perfect for you.  The Z06 is a balls out barely street legal race car.

No, I want the Z06 roadster. Exactly like the one in the pic above.

[CALL_911]

Then the Stingray Z51 is perfect for you.  The Z06 is a balls out barely street legal race car.

What's so hard to get about a Corvette convertible with more powar

[SVT666]

What's so hard to get about a Corvette convertible with more powar

It's not just more power.  It's a hardcore balls to the wall track machine.  I just don't understand it. 

[Payman]

You talk like it's unusable on the street, or it'll be a miserable driving experience.

[SVT666]

You talk like it's unusable on the street, or it'll be a miserable driving experience.

Obviously you and I differ on this, and that's cool, because if we all agreed on everything, then there would only be one sports car on the market.

[hotrodalex]

Would want different tires for the street, for sure.

[12,000 RPM]

It's practically a race car.  A vert doesn't make sense.

By this logic, neither does a drop top 458 Speciale.

Or an F1 car. 

[SVT666]

By this logic, neither does a drop top 458 Speciale.

Yup.

Or an F1 car. 

[SVT666]

Uh-oh!  Randy Pobst couldn't get the Z06 around Road Atlanta more than 4 laps without the car overheating.  Guys on the Corvette Forums are complaining about their Stingray Z51's overheating on track days including the transmissions overheating past 300 degrees.

[MX793]

Uh-oh!  Randy Pobst couldn't get the Z06 around Road Atlanta more than 4 laps without the car overheating.  Guys on the Corvette Forums are complaining about their Stingray Z51's overheating on track days including the transmissions overheating past 300 degrees.

It was the auto-trans that overheated on Pobst's car as well.

[Payman]

Uh-oh!  Randy Pobst couldn't get the Z06 around Road Atlanta more than 4 laps without the car overheating.  Guys on the Corvette Forums are complaining about their Stingray Z51's overheating on track days including the transmissions overheating past 300 degrees.

If he had a roadster he wouldn't have had that problem. 

[SVT666]

If he had a roadster he wouldn't have had that problem. 

[hotrodalex]

Uh-oh!  Randy Pobst couldn't get the Z06 around Road Atlanta more than 4 laps without the car overheating.  Guys on the Corvette Forums are complaining about their Stingray Z51's overheating on track days including the transmissions overheating past 300 degrees.

Not surprised, there's not much grill area up front.

[FoMoJo]

All those pushrods that need to be cooled down.

[GoCougs]

In typical M/T fashion their writing sucks so it's impossible to know whether it was tranny or engine oil. Either way, it's no surprise as most any street car will overheat on a hot track day - lots of such stories of M3, Viper, Audi, 911, G37/370Z, ZL1, GT-R, etc, etc. Supercharged cars are that much more prone to it as the supercharger gets hot (i.e., more mass to cool) and the air entering the engine is way hotter than ambient.

[MX793]

In typical M/T fashion their writing sucks so it's impossible to know whether it was tranny or engine oil. Either way, it's no surprise as most any street car will overheat on a hot track day - lots of such stories of M3, Viper, Audi, 911, G37/370Z, ZL1, GT-R, etc, etc. Supercharged cars are that much more prone to it as the supercharger gets hot (i.e., more mass to cool) and the air entering the engine is way hotter than ambient.

I can't say I've ever seen a magazine report having a car from a major manufacturer overheat in their track testing.  Certainly not after 4 laps (which works out to be a scant 6 minutes of hard running).