Bash updates and info
04-25-2013, 10:15 PM
#141
Safety Car
It should make it a lot easier and a lot less $$$ to just pop off the lower rear bumper panel and paint it body color... could make it a easy mod.
04-25-2013, 10:16 PM
#142
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Some adults are trying to talk here - another is just trying to dominate the Thread AGAIN with relentless questions about DCT & AWD, 2 features the C7 does not have. I'll bet most here would prefer to see the Thread continue in the direction of what we can learn from the Bash about what the C7 does have and can do . . . . . I'm just sayin - it seems so much more productive 
04-25-2013, 10:17 PM
#143
Le Mans Master
04-25-2013, 10:19 PM
#144
Le Mans Master
Optional Corvette rearend?
04-25-2013, 10:20 PM
#145
Many of you seem to be reading way too much into magazine lap times. This isn't like drag racing.... road course lap times have huge variables in play. Tires, track conditions, driver skill, and driver comfort level are everything. I could take a Miata on Hoosier A6s and outrun a C6 on runflats.
Looking at all the technology put into the new C7 I'm confident it will run around a track on par if not slightly faster than a C6 Z06. Things like suspension tuning and aero tuning are everything vs. 460-505 horse being nothing. Good drivers in C5 Z06s prepared similarly to C6 Z06s can run very similar lap times even with the 100 horse deficit.
If Mero etc. say it's "way faster" than a C6 GS I'm sure it is... if they say it's on par with the C6Z I'm sure it is... the features and engineering don't lie.
Looking at all the technology put into the new C7 I'm confident it will run around a track on par if not slightly faster than a C6 Z06. Things like suspension tuning and aero tuning are everything vs. 460-505 horse being nothing. Good drivers in C5 Z06s prepared similarly to C6 Z06s can run very similar lap times even with the 100 horse deficit.
If Mero etc. say it's "way faster" than a C6 GS I'm sure it is... if they say it's on par with the C6Z I'm sure it is... the features and engineering don't lie.
04-25-2013, 10:34 PM
#146
Le Mans Master
We are looking for apples to apples, not a better driver or better tires on one or the other.
04-25-2013, 10:42 PM
#148
Melting Slicks
04-25-2013, 10:42 PM
#149
Exactly... and you won't know any of that until you get a real-world test of a C7 Z51 vs. C6Z06 at the same track, same day, same driver as was recently done with the C6 ZR1 and the new Viper.
04-25-2013, 10:45 PM
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Le Mans Master
04-25-2013, 10:48 PM
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04-25-2013, 10:49 PM
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I could care less about times around VIR. I want to know the times on the Tail of the Dragon, mixed in with the slow Harleys. the stupid crazy Sport Bikers, and the local SUV's and pickup trucks. That's where the action is.
BlueOx wants to know the time it takes to wax the C7.
BlueOx wants to know the time it takes to wax the C7.
Oh nooooo Joe ................... You left out the dunder heads in their land yacht motor homes and the morons towing a twin axle 40' camper behind a Ford Escort 
04-25-2013, 11:00 PM
#154
Melting Slicks
I'm pretty sure GM has done the testing, or they wouldn't be making the statements they made today and in the car and driver interview.
04-25-2013, 11:14 PM
#155
Le Mans Master
Dreamerak.......please....independent testing!!!
04-25-2013, 11:22 PM
#156
Melting Slicks
04-26-2013, 07:21 AM
#157
Le Mans Master
Thread Starter
There is something on the schedule for 1:15 just called "reveal" in the courtyard. Maybe thats the pricing announcement. I"ll be there and have it posted when I hear it.
