I just might. Where do you live in Hillsborough? I got through there a lot mostly in the GTO, sometimes in the WS6. You'll know it's my GTO (now) since I have an unpainted (black primer) '05 scooped hood on it plus the recessed autox grills. There's another guy who lives over in Hillsborough as well with a QSM '04 with the stock hood (no scoops), so it could be him if it's not me.

Chris

 

I remember stating a while ago that the video of those idiots who took the C6 Z06 to the dragstrip would come back to haunt us. Now it's being quoted as the perfomance of the new Z06 just like I thought, when it's not.

I don't think that's even close to the potential of the C6 Z06, but who knows, lets wait to see what some mags get.
Dan

 

Damn..........that's a fine looking and hopefully driving car.

Can't wait to see one.

 

The 400hp GTO and C6 6-speeds are getting 28/29 mpg highway, which is awesome for that kind of performance and unmatched in the world.

The C6 Z06 is running 0 to 60 in 3 and 1/2 seconds according to GM, that should put it well into the 11s in the quarter.

 

As has been pointed out, the stats in that article are estimated, and not instrumented testing.
Might be conservative, might not.
Interestingly, C&D went 12.8@110mph in an '03 Cobra in instrumented testing.
As long as we're magazine racing, notice that is a 6 mph difference in trap speed.
S.

 

After reading up on what turbos can do...no sir you aren't the only one.
In all honesty...I kind of expect a certain brand with a Ram for a logo to be the first to do that if it gets done at all.
Can you imagine a turboed 6.1 liter V8 tucked into say....a Viper and a price drop of 10k bucks?

 

Am I the only one who's not particularly impressed?

I mean, I'm not calling 12.5@116 slow or anything, but this is a car that costs almost as much as a base 2005 Corvette and seems to be about as fast (maybe a bit faster once it gets new rubber), but it weighs about 700 pounds more (!!) and has a solid rear axle?

The Vette might be a little slower in the 1/4 mile (and considering that we're comparing a naturally aspirated 16-valve pushrod V8 with a supercharged 32-valve DOHC V8 which is slightly detuned out of a $200,000 supercar), I find that to be pretty good) but it would murder this 3850lb pig on a road course, and I'll be damned if I'm going to buy a $40,000 solid-rear-axle car to go in a straight line.

 

Well then, I guess you won't be buying one, will you??

I'm sure there are 7500 people out there, who will be tickled silly to get theirs.

The point of a limited production car, is that it will not be available.......... nor will it appeal, to everyone.

500hp for under $40K............... sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

 

Ok, there is a diffrence between a sports car and a pony/muscle car. Yes, they are both fast and this one is just as expensive. They appeal to diffrent people for diffrent reasons.

 

How exactly do you know what a production z06 will run?
Thanks for the irrelevant insight.

The best way to know what both cars will do, is to <gasp>, wait for them to actually come out.

 

What irrelevant is your reading ability.

Some chevy fanboy, similar to yourself, claimed a Z06 will waste the GT500 and run nose to nose with Ford's exotic GT.

I just posted some available data to show ridiculous that idea is.

 

What is ridiculous is that you put "production" next to the alphanumeric string "z06."

Please, find me a production model, I would love to see it.


Also, I am no chevy fanboy, but I suppose that was just another one of your brilliant assumptions.