History of the C6 Corvette
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Burning Brakes
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History of the C6 Corvette
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#4
Le Mans Master
"Search around and you can find clean examples for well under $20,000."
I think the author has them confused with the C5 pricing.
I think the author has them confused with the C5 pricing.
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#5
Racer
Good lord I hate trying to read articles written for the short of attention span reading on a tiny phone screen. I got as far as "clean examples for under $20,000," went and checked the publication date, then decided the guy was smoking some good stuff to add that line lol! It's not written very well, and reads like a ChatGPT result.
#9
Le Mans Master
There are too many mistakes in that article to be a sticky. It even says the 6 speed automatic was introduced in 2007, but our 2006 coupe had it. It says LS7 and LSA were built in Wixom, but so were the LS9 as well as the dry sump LS3 in the Grand Sport manual coupes, etc., etc. Poorly written and loaded with inaccuracies.
#10
Racer
The GS really was a mix of the two, with parts and technologies borrowed from both, such as fiberglass panels instead of carbon, and a dry-sump version of the 6.2-liter LS3 engine (hand-assembled in Wixom just like the LS7).\
Only GS MT Coupes had the dry sump engine
Only GS MT Coupes had the dry sump engine
#11
Le Mans Master
This should read, "The LS7, LS9 and dry sump LS3s in the Grand Sports equipped with manual transmissions were hand-assembled in Wixom, Michigan".
LSA was never in a Corvette. And it was not hand assembled. "The LSA is part of GM’s fourth-generation V8 Small Block engine family, though unlike its LS9 counterpart, it is not assembled by hand, and was instead made at GM’s Silao facilities in Mexico. " Reference
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#12
Racer
Check time of the two posts...
Please forgive me I'm so sorry. I must have missed your post while I was typing mine. I won't let this happen again.
Please forgive me I'm so sorry. I must have missed your post while I was typing mine. I won't let this happen again.
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#15
Burning Brakes
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As I had stated in the thread #1 post, this article was an "interesting read", this due, in part, to the juxtaposition of the glowing and absolutely correct title;
Having said that, I believe that the core message is noteworthy and that the C6 Corvette generation is an "historical" milestone in the lifeline of the Corvette story.
GD
History of the C6 Corvette: Birth of a Legend and the First 200-MPH Vette!
contrasted by the (historical) inaccuracies that should have never made it to print by an author that at one time was editor of "Vette" magazine.Having said that, I believe that the core message is noteworthy and that the C6 Corvette generation is an "historical" milestone in the lifeline of the Corvette story.
GD
#16
Burning Brakes
Lots of mistakes, but it's tough to write about a car that was made for so many years in so many configurations with changing options and features each year.
That said, they should have done better.
That said, they should have done better.
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Fun read!