Something Wicked

[Fax]

7 Liters, 505 BHP, 198 MPH...Holy sh*t!

http://www.cnn.com/2005/AUTOS/carreviews/10/18/chevrolet_corvette_z06/index.html

[Snoring Rhino]

Blimey, all that for £37 grand, bargain!

[Lorry]

0-60 in 3.7 takes some beating for anything road legal under $500k.

Bring back the Stingray

[Andy Zarse]

it must be the performance bargain of the decade.

[Fax]

No doubt, talk about a C6R in sheeps clothing.
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[jpchenet]

it must be the performance bargain of the decade.

Especially when you compare it like for like to it's track competitor. A DB9 is £100k isn't it?

[Doris]

Excuse me while I wipe the dribble off my keyboard!

[chop456]

I saw one on the road yesterday.

Gorgeous.

[Perdu]

Would have been nice if someone had told me about this earlier.

I have just finished spending the £38k I had from work as a bugger off present.

Wasted it all on banks and credit cards, dammnit...

[garystout]

Now that was silly wasnt it

[Rhino]

I know GM are deep in the poo financially, when you look at 36k for that, you can see why, its a bargain. Whats the catch?

[Fax]

I'm not an economist by any stretch but I think one reason they're struggling right now is because they've got a bunch of gas-guzzling SUV's laying around that they can't give away, now that petrol has jumped near three bucks a gallon (I now its laughable to you guys but its got people freaking out over here). They don't have a hard time selling Vette's.
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[Mr. Invincible Mou]

0-60 in 3.7 takes some beating for anything road legal under $500k.

Bring back the Stingray

Hmm, perhaps not!

According to an article in the Daily Mail today, Volkswagon have just shown a new car at a Japanese Motor Show, and hope to have it on sale within 3 years.

It has a specially developed 1.5 litre Turbo-Diesel engine, which is claimed to give the car a 0-60 time of only 3 seconds and a top speed of 145 mph ( the car weighs a mere 850 kg) with the outstanding fuel economy of between 85 and 100 mpg  

The expected price for this........ £17,000



Picture and more info obtained from here

[Brad Zarse]

if we didnt live in a country where fuel was $8 per gallon when converted to dollars, that would be SUCH a great buy.  I guess you dont buy performance for fuel economy.....

Having had a brief burn (felt brief anyway) in a C5 in the states, I am well and truly turned - planted, pretty, immensley powerful and WHAT an engine noise....the C6 just build on that..... If I could swing a performance company car like some of the guys at work manage, I'd be avoiding the Porsche Garage and heading straight for a garage with one of those in it!

YUMMMMMMMM MY

[Steve Pyro]

My better half runs a 2000 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am (as seen and spun at the RAF Marham track day) as her daily driver.

This car has the same generic LS series engine as the C5 / C6 (Chevrolet 5.7 LS1) with a 6 speed manual gearbox.

On a reasonable run, she can manage 26 - 29 miles per UK gallon, which for a 'performance' car isn't too bad - but she does have a company fuel card 

Go on Brad, you know it makes sense.