View Poll Results: what do you think?
really clean, nice looking Vette....
174
31.46%
a very different Vette but we'll sure as hell take it.
165
29.84%
i'll be ordering one soon.......
98
17.72%
No thank you
116
20.98%
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I got to see the new Corvette last night at Road America (IMSA 2019). Well, sort of:
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2slow2speed (08-02-2019)
#2102
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We’re talking pre-WW2 GM vs post taxpayer bailout GM. Not exactly the same company. We have people here trying to say the ignition fiasco GM is laughably a “different company” than today’s GM, despite the fact that hoards of employees from then are employees from now. Now all of a sudden WW2 GM is today’s GM?
Let's be glad those weren't GM built tanks.
Are we to accept that GM is sometimes the "same company" and sometimes "different companies" purely based on what is convenient for you? I don't think so...
As a matter of objective FACT, a lot of them (maybe most of them?) WERE GM-built tanks.
#2103
Oh yeah, Ferdinand Porsche was a **** war criminal...
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ZDan (08-02-2019)
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Race Director
Originally Posted by LexVan
I got to see the new Corvette last night at Road America (IMSA 2019). Well, sort of:
LOL. Let me know if they let people actually check it out. I'd assume so. Won't just be behind a rope.
#2106
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I had not seen this particular video of the C8 mules testing at the ring, seems to be one of the latest ones based on the publication date and the reveal date on the side of the doors of the mules.
https://youtu.be/_MmyxXL7Tsc
Very impressive for a 3500 - 3600 lb car, the darker mule seems to handle transitions better and also seems to be able to put the power better.
Edit: After listening a bit, the darker mule seems to have a whine when it starts to accelerate while following the lighter C8 mule around the 4:06 mark, the whine is not as prominent as the supercharger on the C7 ZR1 but there is something there. A possible Z06 mule been tested with a SC?
Edit 2: Also noticed something under the rear diffuser of the 4:06 mule, so the difference in sound could be exhaust related as well.
Based on what I have read at CorvetteForums Spring Mountain will be getting 40 cars from the production line for the dealer training program, would be curious to know if those will be the same ones that will be used for the Corvette driving school.
https://youtu.be/_MmyxXL7Tsc
Very impressive for a 3500 - 3600 lb car, the darker mule seems to handle transitions better and also seems to be able to put the power better.
Edit: After listening a bit, the darker mule seems to have a whine when it starts to accelerate while following the lighter C8 mule around the 4:06 mark, the whine is not as prominent as the supercharger on the C7 ZR1 but there is something there. A possible Z06 mule been tested with a SC?
Edit 2: Also noticed something under the rear diffuser of the 4:06 mule, so the difference in sound could be exhaust related as well.
Based on what I have read at CorvetteForums Spring Mountain will be getting 40 cars from the production line for the dealer training program, would be curious to know if those will be the same ones that will be used for the Corvette driving school.
I would rather have a supercharger, but wouldn't a SC be more difficult to cool in this configuration?
#2107
Instructor
Ferdinand Porsche and his son-in-law, Anton Piech, were taken prisoner by the French and accused of war crimes, though the real reason for their arrest seems to have been an attempt to force them to collaborate with the French auto industry, which in fact they did. In his autobiography, Ferry Porsche said that one million francs were paid by his family to French officials as a sort of ransom to secure the release of his father and brother-in-law after 17 months' imprisonment and to have all war crimes charges against them dropped. Nevertheless, there's no doubt that Porsche used slave labor at his factories during WWII.
IMO the use of slave labor amounts to war crimes but technically he was let off the hook.
#2109
Here's what you said, with no qualifiers whatsoever:
Are we to accept that GM is sometimes the "same company" and sometimes "different companies" purely based on what is convenient for you? I don't think so...
As a matter of objective FACT, a lot of them (maybe most of them?) WERE GM-built tanks.
Are we to accept that GM is sometimes the "same company" and sometimes "different companies" purely based on what is convenient for you? I don't think so...
As a matter of objective FACT, a lot of them (maybe most of them?) WERE GM-built tanks.
[he laughs with race dog in tow]
Now pondering if I should ask if you consider George Washington a war criminal (or Columbus for that matter), or that a vast expanse of our own countries construction being courtesy of slave labor would render all involved also war criminals. I know my answer....
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#2113
Is your judgement based on the many track hours you have with a GT2 RS and ZR1 or just things you've read?
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bertram928 (08-02-2019)
#2114
No C7 ZR1 has posted better official track times than the best official GT2 RS times. This isn’t opinion or saying “Porsche is better” even. You brought it up, and still keep attempting to move the goalposts around to deny the realty of that situation. Is the Vette kool aid that good?
#2115
@Shockwave Is that a real picture of Rapid Blue, or a photoshop? I love the color in your picture. It would be my favorite.