Corvette ZR1 Test
Discussion
The test was carried out by Winding Road at GM's US Testing Facility and contains some interesting comments by the Corvette chief engineer Tadge Juechter
http://windingroad.nextautos.com/windingroad/20081...
http://windingroad.nextautos.com/windingroad/20081...
Anybody seen the First Drive of the ZR1 in Autocar this week? It's the usual annoying Autocar fayre. On the one hand they say nice things about the car, then spoil it with poor research. Their tag-line for the review is "Can a 'Vette be worth £50K?"! i.e. they've used US list prices (before dealer mark up!) and not bothered to look in the back of their own magazine to spot that a regular C6 lists at £50K in the UK, nor have they dug out the press release GM sent to them with the £100K UK list price for a ZR1...
cheeky said:
Their first review of the Z06 was very good though and was the reason I first looked into, and ended up, buying one.
It was a damn sight better than Top Gear's too, and a lot earlier.
It was a damn sight better than Top Gear's too, and a lot earlier.
I caught the Z06 Top Gear episode on Dave at the weekend and JCs comments were absolute crap. He said Z06 great for the track but you would be better off with a standard C6 on the road. Utter bollox and his reasons were laughable.
I know your point exactly. I was just pointing out you haven't owned a C6! (Why indeed should you since you jumped into a Z?!!) And Clarkson talks more B***cks these days than he ever has before. I've just finished watching another episode of Fifth Gear and I have to say I find that a whole lot more enjoyable. Maybe because it has more actual fast cars in it that Top Gear has in a whole series.
Jez I agree - Fifth Gear was so bad I stopped watching it. The Ace Cafe bit got on my nerves but that has now been banished too. They have scrapped the whole format and bar a bit of banter between a couple of the presenters (VBH not in site but is limited to just one feature, which in my opinion is a step in the right direction) it really has gone back to the original FG/TG format - just loads of cars and drives.
Just receieved this weeks' e-mail from Drivers Republic. Nothing very interesting this week, but they say that next week they'll have a review of the ZR1: "the numbers say it's a supercar, but does it live up to the hype?". Hopefully they'll let Richard Meaden drive it rather than Chris "I can't drive a Z06" Harris....
vetteheadracer said:
My point is the Z06 is a lovely car on the road, don't know what Clarkson is moaning about.
The list of cars which Jeremy Clarkson has fundamentally got wrong is endless.Tiff Needell loved the Z06 and he can drive. Top Gear allows viewers to see that Jeremy just can't.
It's not a surprise that you get an unreliable verdict when the tester lacks more than rudimentary driving skills.
Don't get me wrong, I sit with my kids and laugh at TG until tears run down my face but we shouldn't over invest in JCs verdicts on cars any more than we should ask chimps to decide whether Macs are better than PCs.
For some reason, many sports car purists (and other silly people) have always dumbed down the Chevvy Corvette as some kind of sub-standard Yank-Tank, which is crazy.
EG
Everyone, just about, said how wonderful my M3 CSL was and yes, it was a great car, but i'd have swapped it for a Z06 in an instant!
EG
Everyone, just about, said how wonderful my M3 CSL was and yes, it was a great car, but i'd have swapped it for a Z06 in an instant!
Le Man said:
vetteheadracer said:
My point is the Z06 is a lovely car on the road, don't know what Clarkson is moaning about.
The list of cars which Jeremy Clarkson has fundamentally got wrong is endless.Tiff Needell loved the Z06 and he can drive. Top Gear allows viewers to see that Jeremy just can't.
It's not a surprise that you get an unreliable verdict when the tester lacks more than rudimentary driving skills.
Don't get me wrong, I sit with my kids and laugh at TG until tears run down my face but we shouldn't over invest in JCs verdicts on cars any more than we should ask chimps to decide whether Macs are better than PCs.
Frankly - there is only one opinion that counts when buying a car.
Your own.
JC makes 'controversial' comments and vacuous TV because it's what's made his career and his money.
Think of it this way, if everyone raved about them, there would be hundreds/thousands more on our roads. Personally, I prefer to keep these things to ourselves
Stig said:
Le Man said:
vetteheadracer said:
My point is the Z06 is a lovely car on the road, don't know what Clarkson is moaning about.
The list of cars which Jeremy Clarkson has fundamentally got wrong is endless.Tiff Needell loved the Z06 and he can drive. Top Gear allows viewers to see that Jeremy just can't.
It's not a surprise that you get an unreliable verdict when the tester lacks more than rudimentary driving skills.
Don't get me wrong, I sit with my kids and laugh at TG until tears run down my face but we shouldn't over invest in JCs verdicts on cars any more than we should ask chimps to decide whether Macs are better than PCs.
Frankly - there is only one opinion that counts when buying a car.
Your own.
JC makes 'controversial' comments and vacuous TV because it's what's made his career and his money.
Think of it this way, if everyone raved about them, there would be hundreds/thousands more on our roads. Personally, I prefer to keep these things to ourselves
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