Last night I pulled away quickly from a set of lights to get away from an annoying driver. I didnt floor it but was brisk and then I see a new Y reg corvette go past on the ourside. He looked across and shook his head which made me wish I had pushed it harder.
I have a RB5 WRSport. Do you reckon I would have had him if I had booted it????

[This message has been edited by jjk (edited 13 June 2001).]

 

yes!....'Y' makes him early eighties and
corvette was a relativly low powered heavy
dog at that point..

 

Or it could be a 2001 Y reg corvette.

You would have troubles outgunning one of those to 60, especially once rolling where the 4wd becomes a sapping on the power train rather than a traction advantage

 

.....or, if the "Y" is at the front end of the plate; in a straight line it would leave you for dead.....

I rode round the Jerez GP circuit in a new one a couple of weeks ago.....385bhp, 385ft/lb torque, 171 mph top speed.....

 

In a straight line you would probably have had problems.

BUT if you show the corvette a corner (even a little one) then they have to slow right down.

Most American cars that I have driven (even an unmodified Dodge Viper) really can't go round corners!

Steve.

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by jjk:
<B>new Y reg [/quote]

These are fapping fast cars.

The Corvette Z06 does 0-60 in 4 seconds.

375 ft-lb. at 4400 rpm
385 horsepower at 6000

In a nice fibreglass car.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR><B>BUT if you show the corvette a corner (even a little one) then they have to slow right down.[/quote]

I'm not sure about this, I seem to remember the Corvette held a record for coping with the highest lateral G's (for a production car, blah blah) while cornering - but that was a while back.




[This message has been edited by DavidBrown (edited 13 June 2001).]

 

Thought as much. Shame we didnt reach any corners and then we would see who is DADDY

Cheers

 

....if you saw the way the 'vette was cornering at Jerez......they do NOT have a problem cornering!

 

I may stand corrected but I believe that a corvette won the Nurburing 24hr race recently.

Thanks

Sonu

 

A new Corvette would beat any Impreza in a straight line, and they handle reasonably well round corners. I heard from someone who test drove a Viper that they were surprisingly good through the twisty stuff too. To be honest, I think the idea of yank tanks not handling is true in general, but they can still make some nice handling cars when they want to.

 

think a new corvette can go round corners fine- then on to 170ish!!

tiggs

 

That yellow one is definately to my liking.

 

had the opportunity to test* this a while back - came alongside a demonstrator from Bauer Millett in Manchester - both cars had no passengers - my old sti 5 (only slightly modified) was able to pull 3 car lengths advantage over about 1/2 mile - mostly 3rd gear used - I think I would have had an even better lead from a standing start. Corvette in question was the limited edition 2000 model with all the silly flags on its livery - the driver was not holding back imo - I would still say that the corvette is surprisingly quick for such a big heavy car though.

Paul W

* not condoning any kind of racing on public roads