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I have driven mine on road, track, autobahn and its a good all round sports car. Sure its no 911, but then its not ANYWHERE near 911 money. A decent spec 99/00 Z06 will set you back IRO 23 - 25k. If you can show me a 6 year old 185mph+ super car that has similar spec then let me know. Only one I can think of is a TVR Cerbera or Tamora. Running costs are going to be stupid and reliability is not a strong point! You could maybe get a very early 996 but its going to have mega miles and very basic spec.
My advice to the topic starter is to get onto the Corvette forum.
apparantly they hires the circuit all day and made changes to the standard car
Dave, unlike Porsche, Audi, Mercedes it's probably a little more difficult for them to test at the 'Ring.
What they've done is no different than most other manufacturrs in all likelihood (bar Porsche probably).
Even if they did fiddle with the car, that is a damn fast time - you can't knock that perfomance. Certainly more believable than sub 8 mins for a Spec C.
I don't believe you were being sarcastic. Shocking.
Audilover, out of interest, what do you drive? You have very strong opinions on a lot of cars without actually having the actual experience of them - is everything you say based purely on reading revews?
no it didnt. It did it in 7:43 actually. Still several seconds slower than 911s that have 120bhp less, and they didnt cheat like GM did altering the cars suspension specifically for the track
What about Evo and their times around their track? Did they cheat too?
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....With its competition being the dodge viper.
Bollox!
The competition was indeed mainly Derek Bell (a man who knows what it takes to win le Mans)prepared Dodge Vipers
But there were also the odd one or two Prodrive prepared Ferrari 550s in there too, and I'd say those two companies know a thing or two about preparing race winning cars
Don't forget either, all the factory supported 993 GT2s that were re-classified to GT1 following the ACO rule changes
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no it didnt. It did it in 7:43 actually. Still several seconds slower than 911s that have 120bhp less, and they didnt cheat like GM did altering the cars suspension specifically for the track
How can you view hiring the circuit for a day and modifying the suspension as you go, to be cheating?
Wouldn't you consider building a workshop on the circuit perimeter, hiring Walter Rorhl to drive your cars rounds all day every day, for months on end, then tuning and tweaking all aspects of the car according to his advice, to be cheating too
