718 gt4 and spyder

I’ve. Read the specs its longer and heavier than a c7

The looks are fine, no one has driven one yet. You also need a car that works in a city, lotus would be terrible there. As you say all cars have to compromise somewhere, the question for me is what are the Vette dynamic compromises.

We’ll see when the tests come out. Although tjeee days magazines will never overtly critique a sponsor. So we’ll aalo see how these cars do on track and what like minded owners have to say.

By the time we know the answers in some detail and have a personal chance to try one it will be 2022 model year and probably much improved.

All of which is to say if you’re thinking g Vette hang on to themotus for a few more years till they get the Vette dialed in.

 

I have driven a vette and if the new one is 10x better than the old ones it will still suck. And that rear end looks like an abortion.

 

I don't know whther it will suck or not, no one does, if the past is a guide the vette will be able to put down good numbers but still not be all of a piece..
Its a 60K base car so is it a fundementaly cheap car. Also Gm itself touts it as being 10% stiffer than the c7, so not all that stiff.
However vettes have a way of evolving into better cars as a platform matures.
To me it all depends on which direction, or directions Gm takes this vette. On one hand they want a new customer base, which means more of a euro car in build and feel, on the other hand vette has never been euro and the current core customer base wants a comfortable easy to get in and out of car that can carry two golf bags and acomodate the needs of +60- yo who really dont drive sports cars except for form.

can one platform be made to dance at various functions, porche acheives it with the 911 which goes all the way from Gt3(light and raw) to Turbo (heavy fast secure comfortable). We'll see, but as you imply vette has scant history to support a Gt3 type car.

 

It's a shame you aren't considering Porsche. Even a 718 Cayman or 992 Carrera would be better than the C8.

 

Drove a 718 boxter S on street and track. Thought he motor was fine in terms of power for what it was. The whole car to me just effortless and Boring with a capital B. I guess if it had auto steer and autodrive it could have been even a little more boring. Its a fine comuter car, painless quick and good steering even if completly lacking in feel. But then I drive a lotus exige and elise, 1 for track and another for street, so i like a more viceral machine even if it has other flaws. As a road car for USA big roads I think a vette might just be more fun, more of an occasion.

For track, will a stock vette zo6 be better than a Gt4? Right now I see that heavily moded caymans(ie over 100k upgrades) pretty much rule the track, so you can probably grow a cayman for track in a way you cant a vette. But porche still hobbles the cayman and that grates. The Gt4 is a great car, but just shy of compelling.
The Evora which I dont love is to me more compelling than a 718, unless were talking Gt4.

Neither a street Vette nor Cayman gt4 will run with my track lotus, so neither is really a new car consideration for me if its track use in mind. For a ridiculous overpowered street car, to me the future z06 vette woudl take it over a Gt4.

However if I had to have one car to do it all, the Gt4 would probably be it, and even then if I could get a Gt3 with stick that would be the pick for road and ocasional track, maybe evn a 911T. Sad as the cayman is probbaly a better platform than the 992.

We'll see if the vette makes an interesting Gt3 type car, or they just go the heavy overpowered over tech route of the NSX or do both.

 

Any more news re GT4 RS?

 

Not sure about the GT4, but I'm liking the new GTS 4.0, the US configurator is now up with pricing, a bit up there in cost for what it is but it's nice.

 

It's too bad that you have to get the wart w/ the GTS, while the GT4 is optional.

 

What's a "wart"?

 

Sport Chrono (SC) on the dashboard. While nipples are headlight washers, and another wart is the antenna for the radio on the rear.

 

Lol! That's pretty funny.

I like the sport chrono, I have it in my 981S, I like watching the clock hands move back and forth when I start/shut the car.

 

The 981 was the best application of the SC as it was nicely integrated between the air conditioning vents. The hazard lights and locking button you would get otherwise seem out of place there. However, on the 718 it is on the dash like 911s.