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I have been a faithful Porschefile for a long time. I have been fortunate enough to have some wonderful rare Porsches over the years and have enjoyed every aspect of them from simply driving to completive racing. But I have read, seen videos and actually seen the new C-8 in person. Although I not crazy about the styling, you can't ignore the value. I configured one on the website and with the performance options, I was still under $80K. When put up against a GT3, GTS, and of course the GT3 RS, these C-8s (in theory) would make a weekend warrior track junkie happy, a guy that wants a sports car for a daily driver, feel good, and best of all save a ton of money. If this car has good reliability, as well as won't be a GM rattle track down the road, I am thinking it is worth a try. We'll see how these shake out over time.
Curious to find out whether the understeer is alignment-related, tire compound-related, or is inherent in the car and the journalists giving the car very positive reviews are simply hyping up the driving experience. Anyone know?
Curious to find out whether the understeer is alignment-related, tire compound-related, or is inherent in the car and the journalists giving the car very positive reviews are simply hyping up the driving experience. Anyone know?
I definitely don't like the idea that you'd have to do a track alignment; just to make it drive the way it should on factory alignment in the first place.
I definitely don't like the idea that you'd have to do a track alignment; just to make it drive the way it should on factory alignment in the first place.
If Chevy didn't set up the C8 out-of-the-box with a street alignment, 90% of the buyers would crash within a month of taking delivery.
Most people who buy the C8 don't know how to drive a mid-engine car, especially previous Corvette owners who have only known front-engined layouts that tend to understeer naturally.
I definitely don't like the idea that you'd have to do a track alignment; just to make it drive the way it should on factory alignment in the first place.
Thanks. Question for all: Is it common practice for a manufacturer, during a performance test, to change the alignment from the stock setup? I would assume a company like Ferrari would gladly do such a thing. Would AMG? GM? Porsche (who, from what I can tell, provide some of the most "off the dealer lot" cars to track tests)?
Also, in the second video, I'm unimpressed with the car on issues 1-2 (braking). I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Nobody knows what size the engine for the Z will be. Motortrend says one thing, R&T says the opposite. Personally think there's no way it'll be NA 5.5l. It'll be flat plane though. As for why flat plane, 458 was a major benchmark for the car. Assuming they really went after the exotic approach to compliment the mid engine layout.
06-30-2020, 06:46 PM
