RE: Mid-engined Corvette to be named Stingray

RE: Mid-engined Corvette to be named Stingray

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Klippie

3,083 posts

144 months

Tuesday 16th July 2019
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simonbamg said:
I’ll wait till shmee gets hold of one then we will see what’s what
I nearly fell off my chair laughing at this one...Timmy's review will be "Epic" or "I'am so excited" its "Totally Ridiculous" tip top car reviews there all right.

anonymous-user

53 months

Tuesday 16th July 2019
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Pericoloso said:
Other test drivers and opinions are available.

Is Shmee the "go to" for everything now ?.....silly

BTW ,that isn't a slight at Tim but I'd take Tiff Needell's opinion over his.
Really, you'd take the opinion of an informed motoring guru with many years history of motorsport over some prat on YouTube. You need to have a word with yourself biggrin

Pericoloso

44,044 posts

162 months

Tuesday 16th July 2019
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yonex said:
Pericoloso said:
Other test drivers and opinions are available.

Is Shmee the "go to" for everything now ?.....silly

BTW ,that isn't a slight at Tim but I'd take Tiff Needell's opinion over his.
Really, you'd take the opinion of an informed motoring guru with many years history of motorsport over some prat on YouTube. You need to have a word with yourself biggrin
I regularly do ......have a word with myself .

He's not listening.....paperbag

ZX10R NIN

27,459 posts

124 months

Tuesday 16th July 2019
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simonbamg said:
No interest it won’t be any good
Have you driven one recently? The Z06 is on par with any Porsche 911 bar a GT3 RS the Grand Sport is as good a steer as a GTS & not because it's a Vette, The C6 Z06 is a great drivers car full stop.


unsprung

5,467 posts

123 months

Tuesday 16th July 2019
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yonex said:
I doubt most little Englander types understand the world doesn't revolve around the UK, different time zones you say, well I never biggrin
laugh

Yet it's much the same in most countries isn't it. Perhaps some of the Scandinavians or the Dutch are more outward-minded than most, for reasons of nation size, history, and trade.

In fact, while living and working on the Continent, I discovered that numerous countries, in their foreign investment packets and whatnot, all claimed to be the leader "at the heart of Europe" or "at the crossroads of East and West." This redundancy tended to reduce the value of such claims, I believe, and made said claims ripe for mockery.

Also:

We cannot mention this topic without also mentioning how the British, in particular moments, are the most spectacular and entertaining when taking the mickey about themselves or their nation. Bad news or a poor ranking can be met with an ironic aside that is delivered whilst carrying on with present work and whilst not bothering to make eye contact. Very, very humorous. And a skill which is notably less common on the other side of the Atlantic.















Finchingtons

35 posts

158 months

Wednesday 17th July 2019
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For gods sake will they just reveal the bloody thing already!..it’s between this and the Land Rover defender who has more staged “spy shots” and faux marketing leaks!

Jader1973

3,932 posts

199 months

Wednesday 17th July 2019
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Article seems to be a bit confused.

As per today, the Stingray will be the entry level car, with other versions to sit above it.

C.MW

472 posts

68 months

Wednesday 17th July 2019
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simonbamg said:
No interest it won’t be any good
On what basis? Do you even consider yourself a car enthusiast?

Gameface

16,565 posts

76 months

Wednesday 17th July 2019
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It will be good.

It won't be good looking.

IMO.

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 17th July 2019
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simonbamg said:
Lord.Vader said:
What a load of rubbish, it'll be miles better than anything German rep-mobile with a large engine.

Hopefully it'll push prices down on the fantastic C7!
like what? give examples to back up your incorrect argument
Well considering it isn't released yet that'd be difficult, read the story above.

If it is incorrect please post an example.

The C7 was on par with anything coming out of Germany, even matching up against the much newer 992 "S", especially the Z06.

It's 2019, the old stereotypical adage about American cars just doesn't ring true anymore.

Plus you'll be getting AMG GTR performance for C43 / 63 (63 after taxes / duty) money.






Edited by Lord.Vader on Wednesday 17th July 08:46

JONSCZ

1,178 posts

236 months

Wednesday 17th July 2019
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Gameface said:
It will be good.

It won't be good looking.

IMO.
As the owner of a Corvette C7, this sums up my feelings of the C8 - couldn't have put it better myself, 'Gamey'...!

redroadster

1,724 posts

231 months

Wednesday 17th July 2019
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If it is mega and is much cheaper than competition what will folk say then ? .
Hope they do rhd though .

unsprung

5,467 posts

123 months

Wednesday 17th July 2019
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As most of us know, the idea of a mid-engined Corvette has been talked about for ages. And before many here on PH were even born. Over the years there were a couple of actual concepts -- and even more rumours.

Today one automotive magazine has gathered some of these under the headline, "9 Times We Put a Mid-Engine Corvette on the Cover." These include at least one version with all-wheel-drive and another propelled by a rotary engine.

Details here:
https://www.motortrend.com/news/9-times-we-put-a-m...

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Big Robbo

319 posts

145 months

Wednesday 17th July 2019
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It will be good, Muricans can make decent cars and they won't take any chances or shortcuts with this. Who gives a monkey what that prat shmee thinks

AussieFozzy

136 posts

127 months

Thursday 18th July 2019
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I really do hope the handling is sorted. There is something about entry level, mid-engine, big power cars that shouts accident waiting to happen.
Certainly there are going to be more than a few long time owners who will need to properly learn this new beast before pushing it.

Grindle

764 posts

83 months

Thursday 18th July 2019
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yonex said:
Breaking news. Chevrolet have abandoned the much anticipated launch of the mid engined Corvette due to criticism on a UK motoring forum.

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Good one. I have always liked American cars, have owned plenty of them and even today something like a £20,000 2008 Corvette 6.2 makes for a great and different car to the likes of what that money buys you from Audi, BMW or Mercedes. Nice easy 420 bhp, the same in lbs-ft.
I bet Ford and Chevrolet check back here regularly to see what they need to do with their cars, in case people who have bank loans to buy their Fiesta ST have anything to say on the subject of their big sports cars. :-)
The Corvette has always been a bargain buy. I had a 1982 350 ci Corvette which had 4 main services in the first 108,000 miles and other than brakes and tyres needed nothing doing to it at all. Okay it had just 305 bhp and 4 gears but it weighed the same as a Focus ST. Easy to service, dead easy to repair if need be and extremely easy to tune. Basic mods would give it another 100 bhp which the next owner did.
The car now lives in south-east France and has over 300,000 miles on the clock.
The Corvette has always been about bringing a great looking sports car to the masses. After all, how many of us will actually get to own a Ferrari 458? Or even a 430, 360? How many could afford the very first half-decent repair either?

Grindle

764 posts

83 months

Thursday 18th July 2019
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ZX10R NIN said:
simonbamg said:
No interest it won’t be any good
Have you driven one recently? The Z06 is on par with any Porsche 911 bar a GT3 RS the Grand Sport is as good a steer as a GTS & not because it's a Vette, The C6 Z06 is a great drivers car full stop.

Where to begin?
The 7.0 Corvette i had around 8 years ago was a stunning car. The LHD didn't bother me overly as we have a house in France that we use a lot.
At the time i couldn't fathom why a car with 505 bhp and many lightweight virtually race-spec engine internals was selling for so little money in the UK. At the time the BMW M5 had 507 bhp from it's 5.0 V10 and 90% of people i came across preferred the Beemer.
But some 'got' the Chevvy and it's fabulous LS7 engine. 470 grunty lbs-ft and over 500 bhp meant 3.9 seconds to 60, immense in-gear shove and a 200 mph top speed and i paid just £30,000 for mine when people were shelling out £90,000 for their new lard arse 1800 kgs M5 and it's crap gearbox and unreliability issues they are plagued with. They have gone from £90,000 to as little as £9,000 now whilst the way too cheap at the time 'vette is now £40,000.
Bravo Corvette. The very first ones are now £150,000 and the latest ones still the best way on a budget you can get into a supercar.

J4CKO

41,190 posts

199 months

Thursday 18th July 2019
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AussieFozzy said:
I really do hope the handling is sorted. There is something about entry level, mid-engine, big power cars that shouts accident waiting to happen.
Certainly there are going to be more than a few long time owners who will need to properly learn this new beast before pushing it.
Its 2019, these cars have advanced Electronic Stability Programmes and folk by and large managed in the past with mid engined stuff without certain death, I see what you mean but they have managed with previous generations and its the same as any other high powered car, dont take the piss and it wont bite.


FerdiZ28

1,355 posts

133 months

Thursday 18th July 2019
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simonbamg said:
I’ll wait till shmee gets hold of one then we will see what’s what
Shmee, the gold standard of unbiased and unfunded motoring journalism.

Wind your neck in, simpleton.

Big Robbo

319 posts

145 months

Thursday 18th July 2019
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FerdiZ28 said:
Shmee, the gold standard of unbiased and unfunded motoring journalism.

Wind your neck in, simpleton.
Is that reference to shmee or his acolytes??
Never has such a inconsequential man had so much "influence"