997 GT2 vs Z06.......Ouch

The Z06 is just a tad faster if you average most reviews together. But it's certainly not "killing" the others.

And by handful, do you mean a very small percentage? 'Vettes are not very well loved in Europe, because the car is just too expensive there for what you get.

 

That is one heck of a fast car.

 

Yes. I think if they were as cheap as they are in the us they would have more of a backing.

 

Maybe, but they'd need a better suspension. UK Magazines have often hated the suspension in the Corvette calling it nerve racking/jaw jattering/etc.

But, yes, they might need to lower the price in Europe. In the UK, old Corvettes (C5s) go for more than new base C6s. Same with the Vipers.

 

as a car nut i certainly do respect most kind of sportscars. and certainly the corvette is a good car for what it is.....a cheap fast car assembled from the GM parts bin catalog.....a mitsubishi lancer 1.6 is better assembled and more thought out than a corvette ever will be. i have driven (not owned) a fair share of american cars and they are by far the worst cheapest interiors one could think of.....all of them.....you get the same feel be it a navigator, an sts or a vette.....horrible assembly of plastics.

 

I owned two Chryslers (PT Cruiser and Grand Cherokee Ltd.), all I can say is: SPOT ON!!

 

The Vette isn't taken seriously? Is that so? Is that why Autocar just compared it to the GT2?

In order to even think about comparing it to the GT2, one has to at least recognize that it's pretty damn good.

 

In the past I agreed. A current perusal of a GM dealership shows the gap has closed tremendously.

 

oh snap

 

The GT2 is only better by default because the Z06 is kind of old news while this is Porsche's new shreff in town more improved. It would have been a fair race had it been a ZR1 insead of a Z06 so it wouldn't matter what it puts down on a dyno or how less it weighs its not a fair match. We might as well go toss in a modified Civic and test it to see if it can beat both cars with 20k into it.

Actually it has been taken seriously outside of the US in fact most UK mags have givin it great reviews only the biaist folks aren't taking it serious.

 

Maybe we should test a Hennessey Viper against a GT2 and see who gets spanked then

 

or maybe we should test a GT2 Stage3 against a Hennessey Viper and see who gets spanked then

we are talking stock for stock........would love to see that hennessey go round a bend......

 

It would do so quite well. They have IIRC motegi adjustable shocks all around.

 

i agree.....idling in 1st gear

 

????????? that GT2 have more then 1100hp?

 

It wouldn't matter whats been done to that Porsche the Viper will walk it regardless of what you say or whats been done to that Porsche. Id love to see that porsche try and best a TT Viper from a 30mph or a dragrace.

At a track it would probably beat it but in a straight line that Porsche is toast.

 

Oh, so you think a Venom TT will walk even a Mirage GT despite the fact the Viper's engine has to be cooled with ice after every run?

I mean, let's face the facts. The Venom barely beat the Veyron and that's due to the Veyron weighing a whopping 1,000lbs more.

 

Well Iv'e seen what a Hennessey Viper can do in person as well as in video its vary amzing what they can do!. Those and many other TT Vipers have proven time and time again what they can do, theres not much I can say. I won't birdwalk this topic because its going in the wrong dirrection than I orginally intended it to be but thats a race id love to see.

 

Well, when that happens, I want to see a customer's TT, not Hennessey's own TT. I have a feeling the guy is smart enough not to screw up his own cars....

 

A lot of very ignorant comments - especially coming from a 318 driver - a car which has never been taken seriously in the USA *or* in Europe... a universal joke of a vehicle, if you will.

The ZR-1 will not be a match for the 430. The Z06 already handily trumps the 430, and the ZR-1 promises to be a fair bit faster. The GT2 is a bit faster on than the current Z06, against the ZR-1 it may be a different story, we will have to wait and see.

A car that wipes the floor with 430's, Gallardos, Murcielagos, 911's, M5's, M6's, M3's, AMG's and Aston's is something to be taken seriously. Only a fool of a car snob would think otherwise.

I don't mind when guys with CGT's, Enzos or Lambos want to be car snobs - they had the choice and they chose the (often slower) higher priced car. That's cool - its a great decision to have to make.

What is funny however, is when folks who aren't able to afford either enlighten us with their knowledge on which car is the better performer and which "is taken seriously".

LOL!

 

how do you determine 'afford' ?

 

The guy in the Z06 seemed like a tugger at the wheel. They should have switched drivers. The GT2 should be faster but it looked like the cat driving the vette had never driven one in his life.

 

I think that regardless of what one can afford, one should be entitled to an opinion no matter how flawed it is. I think this is something Asterix and Obelix and even Idefix (Dogmatix) would fight for (with or without potion).

-Peter

 

That driver was an absolute slouch.... By the looks of the way he was shifting, I wonder if he's ever even driven a left side car before?

To post a 10 second 0-100 when all the magazines have it around 8 sec is rediculous. My old C5 could run 0-100 in 10 seconds.

I'd love to see someone who knows how to drive get behind the wheel of the Z, I'd bet it would be much closer.

Also he turned off the traction, didn't even put it into competative mode, so he's going to get excessive wheel spin. They used the technology the GT2 was carring, but not the technology built into the Vette?

Seems to me the whole report was bias. Sure the GT2 would have still won, but not by as much as they reported... idiots.

 

I believe the race was riged for the GT2 to win. Bottomline.