New Corvette

[All Wheel Drive]

Originally Posted by LateNightCable Originally Posted by All Wheel Drive PRECISION, not quite, for example making 400hp from a 6.0L is not a good example of precision. This would not be a good example of Efficiency, pricision is another matter, and the C6 is most likely the most " precise " Corvette ever.

I agree: it should be the most precise vette ever, it's the last one made from this line.

[LateNightCable]

Last of a line? I would think it's the first of a new line.
I should add that 400 hp. from 6.0 liters does not mean that the engine is not reletively efficient in other ways. That power is just the standard output. We all know that the new Vette's engine has the capability for much more. Hence, it is capable of much greater displacement efficiency.

[All Wheel Drive]

Originally Posted by LateNightCable Last of a line? I would think it's the first of a new line. I should add that 400 hp. from 6.0 liters does not mean that the engine is not reletively efficient in other ways. That power is just the standard output. We all know that the new Vette's engine has the capability for much more. Hence, it is capable of much greater displacement efficiency.

Well, I don't want to argue. Americans have their way of making things.
I would prefer an agressive 3.0l I6 (with 300hp) rather than a 6.0l huming V8 with 400hp. And a smaller car to accomodate the I6.

[Diavolo]

I too would prefer an I6, BUT it's unlikely you will see the Vette with anything but a V8...That's almost like Porsche ditching the flat-6 for their 911. Not likely.

Maybe on a future model designed to replace the Vette, but that looks like a long time from now. And even then, their clientele would complain "where's my thumpin' V8?"

[All Wheel Drive]

A vette is not llikely to be my type of car. It represents the big american way of doing things. In Europe we tend to do it with more finesse.

[LateNightCable]

Originally Posted by All Wheel Drive ( the Corvette ) represents the big american way of doing things. In Europe we tend to do it with more finesse.

Which is probably why we will never see a small Vette with a 3.0 liter straight-six. I get the feeling that some Europeans, while having an appreciation of the " American way " still think of it as wrong or of a lesser caliber. If every car was European in nature, I think we would have a high quality, and " precise ", but very bland car scene.

[All Wheel Drive]

Originally Posted by LateNightCable Which is probably why we will never see a small Vette with a 3.0 liter straight-six. I get the feeling that some Europeans, while having an appreciation of the " American way " still think of it as wrong or of a lesser caliber. If every car was European in nature, I think we would have a high quality, and " precise ", but very bland car scene.

The cars are smaller because Europe does not the vast spaces that the USA has. Everything is big in the USA.

A Twingo wouldn't find it's meaning in the USA.

Once I saw a Dodge Ram on the French Riviera. The driver could not turn his vehicle in the middle of the road because it is too long. He went back and forward twice.

In France cars are parked leaving 10 cms in the back and 10cms in the front. It's realy an art taught when taking ur licence.

I saw a Cadillac Eldorado in my home country. I thought this could only be seen in the movies. It is huge and in my opinion out of place, elsewhere, but the USA and Canada.

Also, gasoline is more expensive in Europe. U have maybe 1 dollar a gallon and here it's 1 euro a liter.

Europe and the USA are two different dimensions.

[thepolarfoxqx]

well, seeing as we in america have had such good foreign policy of late (not), our gas is now to a slighly more painful $2/gallon. not quite europe, but more expensive. I've long valued small and nimble cars. The turning circle on a corvette is over 40 feet, which is impractical by european standards (M3's is under 35), but that is where they are built for. American cars are impractically large in lots of different ways. i'd like to see a more modern and sophisticated engine go into vette, i'm happy C6 is smaller than C5 (C5 was bordering on boat-car dimensions - like when you outsize a taurus, you are no longer sporty - and vette was pretty close to that size), but what they have now seems to work pretty well. I guess it is all what matters to you in a car.