I'd take an 09 z06 over an 09 ZR1...
08-09-2008, 11:47 AM
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Melting Slicks
For all you guys saying you would take a Z06 over a ZR1 are just plain crazy! Are you kidding me???? I have seen several ZR1's in person now and they are simply downright INSANE looking!!!!! I guess whatever floats your boat haha. 
08-09-2008, 11:56 AM
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Are you nuts? Who in their right mind wouldn't choose the ZR1 over a Z06 if the choice was available to them? ZR1 is much rarer and therefore will be more valuable in the future. Z06 will always be produced and is rather commonplace compared to that.
08-09-2008, 12:08 PM
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Yea, but you could get 10 Toyota Echos for the same price, what does that have to do with it, you can only drive one at a time. And as I wave at you when I am in my 638 hp ZR1 and you are in your Z06, I probably won't hear you as you say........"yea, but I got another Z06 in the garage" 
08-09-2008, 12:21 PM
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St. Jude Donor '09 & '12, '14
Why buy a vette? Best Bargain car for performance and looks out there.
01 - 07 = baby on way... wife insisted on 07 due to interior upgrades. In addition the market was dropping fast on Corvettes and believe it or not I was looking for a C5 and for a few dollars more I found the 07 Vert... Trust me when I tell you I think the C5 was the best corvette ever made for its time. (Not counting C1) Truly Revolutionary. If the C5 was never built into the quality car it is...I would say the Corvette would have met the same fate as Camaro. The C6 is nice but is definitely evolutionary.
C5 forum would say its ludicrous if a person paid alot.
They know they have a fantastic car.
So Yes.. I am not a sunshine pumper and won't be praising the Z06 or Zr1 corvette until the price becomes realistic.
What your telling me is you would take a Zr-1 over a c6z51 coupe with a briefcase inside with a 100k in it. Your nuts!
Best Bang for the buck that noone can argue is C6Z51 Coupe with an MN6 (since Auto is an option)
Its my opinion sorry you disagree
I do appreciate your opinion.
01 - 07 = baby on way... wife insisted on 07 due to interior upgrades. In addition the market was dropping fast on Corvettes and believe it or not I was looking for a C5 and for a few dollars more I found the 07 Vert... Trust me when I tell you I think the C5 was the best corvette ever made for its time. (Not counting C1) Truly Revolutionary. If the C5 was never built into the quality car it is...I would say the Corvette would have met the same fate as Camaro. The C6 is nice but is definitely evolutionary.
C5 forum would say its ludicrous if a person paid alot.
They know they have a fantastic car.So Yes.. I am not a sunshine pumper and won't be praising the Z06 or Zr1 corvette until the price becomes realistic.
What your telling me is you would take a Zr-1 over a c6z51 coupe with a briefcase inside with a 100k in it. Your nuts!
Best Bang for the buck that noone can argue is C6Z51 Coupe with an MN6 (since Auto is an option)
Its my opinion sorry you disagree
I do appreciate your opinion.Using that "logic" why even buy a Corvette at all????
To wit, why did you go from a 2001 C5 to your current '07 C6? ....after all, "a Corvette is a Corvette", why didn't you keep the "Corvette" that you already had? Or if it was lost to accident, or theft, why not another one built to it's same specifications and same options?
Some, right there in that C5 forum, would say it's "ludicrous" to go from a C5 to a C6, especially an LS2 based C6.
Indeed using the logic, a Corvette is a Corvette, Chevy may as well have quit making Corvettes long before your LS2 based '07 C6, with all of its bells and whistles it has over the 1977 model, since they all are the same, and all were going to be the same.
Its "ludicrous" for you to have paid a red cent more for your '07 C6 than what you could have gotten a '77 for. After all, a Corvette is a Corvette.
To wit, why did you go from a 2001 C5 to your current '07 C6? ....after all, "a Corvette is a Corvette", why didn't you keep the "Corvette" that you already had? Or if it was lost to accident, or theft, why not another one built to it's same specifications and same options?
Some, right there in that C5 forum, would say it's "ludicrous" to go from a C5 to a C6, especially an LS2 based C6.
Indeed using the logic, a Corvette is a Corvette, Chevy may as well have quit making Corvettes long before your LS2 based '07 C6, with all of its bells and whistles it has over the 1977 model, since they all are the same, and all were going to be the same.
Its "ludicrous" for you to have paid a red cent more for your '07 C6 than what you could have gotten a '77 for. After all, a Corvette is a Corvette.
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08-09-2008, 01:20 PM
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Team Owner
If money were not an issue I would have to go for the ZR1, why not go for the "King".
08-09-2008, 01:22 PM
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Safety Car
08-09-2008, 01:33 PM
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Why buy a vette? Best Bargain car for performance and looks out there.
01 - 07 = baby on way... wife insisted on 07 due to interior upgrades. In addition the market was dropping fast on Corvettes and believe it or not I was looking for a C5 and for a few dollars more I found the 07 Vert... Trust me when I tell you I think the C5 was the best corvette ever made for its time. (Not counting C1) Truly Revolutionary. If the C5 was never built into the quality car it is...I would say the Corvette would have met the same fate as Camaro. The C6 is nice but is definitely evolutionary.
C5 forum would say its ludicrous if a person paid alot. They know they have a fantastic car.
So Yes.. I am not a sunshine pumper and won't be praising the Z06 or Zr1 corvette until the price becomes realistic.
What your telling me is you would take a Zr-1 over a c6z51 coupe with a briefcase inside with a 100k in it. Your nuts!
Best Bang for the buck that noone can argue is C6Z51 Coupe with an MN6 (since Auto is an option)
Its my opinion sorry you disagree I do appreciate your opinion.
01 - 07 = baby on way... wife insisted on 07 due to interior upgrades. In addition the market was dropping fast on Corvettes and believe it or not I was looking for a C5 and for a few dollars more I found the 07 Vert... Trust me when I tell you I think the C5 was the best corvette ever made for its time. (Not counting C1) Truly Revolutionary. If the C5 was never built into the quality car it is...I would say the Corvette would have met the same fate as Camaro. The C6 is nice but is definitely evolutionary.
C5 forum would say its ludicrous if a person paid alot.
They know they have a fantastic car.So Yes.. I am not a sunshine pumper and won't be praising the Z06 or Zr1 corvette until the price becomes realistic.
What your telling me is you would take a Zr-1 over a c6z51 coupe with a briefcase inside with a 100k in it. Your nuts!
Best Bang for the buck that noone can argue is C6Z51 Coupe with an MN6 (since Auto is an option)
Its my opinion sorry you disagree
I do appreciate your opinion.
I could also sell my house and move into a one bedroom apartment and have a briefcase of money left over with hundreds of thousands of dollars in it.
But like you, MY WIFE also has a say in some of the things I purchase as well.
But I will say this, at 50,085 C6 Corvettes produced so far with the Z51 suspension package, 25,035 equipped with F55 suspension package, and 22,162 Z06s produced so far, Z51 equipped C6 Corvettes are a dime a dozen.
Everybody and his momma has one.
With so many Z51 equipped C6s out there, you may not know what its like to not see another example of your same car every 5 miles you drive, but some do and get some value out of that.
There will be 2000 ZR1s produced by the end of this model year.
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08-09-2008, 01:42 PM
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I'd HAVE to go for the ZR1 just to get that really, really 
clear window in the hood so that everyone can see the plastic cover on the top of my engine. That alone has GOT to be worth the price of admission......Talk about corny!!! A car as awesome as the ZR1 deserved better.......
clear window in the hood so that everyone can see the plastic cover on the top of my engine. That alone has GOT to be worth the price of admission......Talk about corny!!! A car as awesome as the ZR1 deserved better.......
08-09-2008, 02:09 PM
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Zr1...period
08-09-2008, 03:25 PM
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St. Jude Donor '05-'06-'07-'08-'09-'10
I'm with the Z06 side as well. Much nicer package IMHO. I have no doubt the ZR1 is ridiculously fast, but the Z06 just looks like a "factory" car.
I was just at the Tech Center for the Corvette show and they had 4 ZR1s under a tent (black, grey, blue, and yellow). It is sinister looking (especially in black), but it looks like a teenager got ahold of a Z06 and added all of the carbon fiber stuff. That hood window is just plain silly as well...it works on a GT40 or f360/430, but not on a front engine car. I thought I really wanted one, but this one is not growing on my. Also, my wife thought it was made by a tuner (Spector or Katech) before I told her it was a GM model. She was disappointed in the looks as well and it didn't help that it is priced at 105k plus the stupid dealer markup for the suckers.
Given the choice right now to spend 105k, I would get a VY Z06 and take the extra 30k and buy a 70-72 BB vert. Given the choice to spend 105k plus the 20k dealer markup, I would get a VY Z06 and take the extra 50k and buy a '65-'66 SB Coupe. No doubt in my mind after getting close to the new ZR1.
I was just at the Tech Center for the Corvette show and they had 4 ZR1s under a tent (black, grey, blue, and yellow). It is sinister looking (especially in black), but it looks like a teenager got ahold of a Z06 and added all of the carbon fiber stuff. That hood window is just plain silly as well...it works on a GT40 or f360/430, but not on a front engine car. I thought I really wanted one, but this one is not growing on my. Also, my wife thought it was made by a tuner (Spector or Katech) before I told her it was a GM model. She was disappointed in the looks as well and it didn't help that it is priced at 105k plus the stupid dealer markup for the suckers.
Given the choice right now to spend 105k, I would get a VY Z06 and take the extra 30k and buy a 70-72 BB vert. Given the choice to spend 105k plus the 20k dealer markup, I would get a VY Z06 and take the extra 50k and buy a '65-'66 SB Coupe. No doubt in my mind after getting close to the new ZR1.
08-09-2008, 03:49 PM
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I'll will be glad to eventually have a Z. But, the answer is the ZR1 for the obvious reasons (i.e. investment, most powerful Corvette ever produced, one of the very top in the worlds food chain, etc.). And I don't like some of the cosmetics either. If they took you to the dealership, had both on the floor in your colors, and said, "we'll give you either one, free and clear. Which one will it be sir". . . . . Which one?
08-09-2008, 04:03 PM
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St. Jude Donor '05-'06-'07-'08-'09-'10
I'll will be glad to eventually have a Z. But, the answer is the ZR1 for the obvious reasons (i.e. investment, most powerful Corvette ever produced, one of the very top in the worlds food chain, etc.). And I don't like some of the cosmetics either. If they took you to the dealership, had both on the floor in your colors, and said, "we'll give you either one, free and clear. Which one will it be sir". . . . . Which one?
08-09-2008, 04:24 PM
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I'm glad you didn't post this before yesterday morning - I didn't know you had to be able to afford one to buy one
Good thing I'm not wealthy then - not quite as ludicrous, huh?
And that is exactly why if I really were wealthy, I would buy a ZR1 in a heartbeat (no pun intended).
Spending an extra 20k for z06 and 100k for Zr-1 is ludicrous. Even if you are wealthy.
have no doubt the ZR1 is ridiculously fast,
08-09-2008, 05:09 PM
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08-09-2008, 05:35 PM
#38
Sure you could, and you could use that money to help pay for repairs for the next 5 years as you will have no warranty. Also, when you go to sell it, not only are the Z06's being sold for dirt cheap, you will lose around 50 cents on the dollar for your mods. Plus, with all these new laws and rules, who knows right now, if there will ever be a faster, quicker Corvette made...ever. Think I will stick with the ZR1. (my argument is only for a ZR1 that doesn't have some $50,000 markup, as I am not into paying inflated prices, if that is the only way I could get one, then unfortunately I am out).
with one exception.50 cents on the dollar for the mods might be a bit generous.
08-09-2008, 08:00 PM
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Bring back the Blue Flame Six with three carbs and a split manifold. 
In spite of all this talk I rather like my C6. Can you imagine taking a ZR1 to a mall and leaving it all alone? It's not nearly as useful as a C6 and for those who enjoy mods what would you do to it?
Lets say it's 2015 and a ZR1 early issue is going for $60,000. I would still not get one. I can afford it but my friends would not understand and it would cause some problems.
In spite of all this talk I rather like my C6. Can you imagine taking a ZR1 to a mall and leaving it all alone? It's not nearly as useful as a C6 and for those who enjoy mods what would you do to it?
Lets say it's 2015 and a ZR1 early issue is going for $60,000. I would still not get one. I can afford it but my friends would not understand and it would cause some problems.