Recently, the voice mill Smokin 'with talk of the new C7 Corvette concept car on the images of the Transformers Sting Ray. But when the C7 AutoWeek has announced that it was "so far to keep with no official word, or an agreed timetable," I was not surprised. The article that the vehicle line executive Tom Wallace said: "Nobody says, We're not doing Corvette Corvette We remain bullish .." When asked directly if there was no chance of dying Corvette, Wallace said emphatically, "No way". What a relief!
Let's step back and a little 'perspective. C3 for the longevity record of 15 years of running the model. Since '82, the car began to drive and the suspension was more than 20 years. Many facelift C3 define three groups; '68 - '77 with the sail-style B-pillars, '78 - '79 with the bull back to the back window, and the '80 - '82 with a shovel-nose / spoiler motive. '68-'69 Corvette looks very different from that of '80-'82 cars.
The C4 has the longest second of 13. C4 changes were limited to the wheel, the wing vents, and covers the front bumper and rear. Although the appearance of the car has not changed much under the body, there was a world of difference! C4S came as a lamb with a 205-horsepower and came with a burst of 330 horsepower.
Tuners like C4S, the most notable being the 1989 Callaway Sledgehammer. This 349.8-CID, 898-horsepower, twin-turbo small block was stupid enough STRE TABLE! In reality led John Ling Fields car Callaway Connecticut shop, 800 miles Centre of Transport Research in Ohio and slammed the test track of 7.5 mile run with a 254.76 km / h. Then the car was checked and driven back to Callaway store.
C4 series ran in showroom stock 85 to 88 and struggle so badly Porsche 944 Porsche has bought two corvettes to disassemble to know why they went so fast. The C4 were expelled for being "too fast".
Then there was the ZR-1. All-aluminum, dual overhead cam, Mercury Marine, built in the ZR-1 packed in a 375-horsepower from '90 and '92, and 405 horses from '93 and '95. Base Corvette only had 250 horsepower '90, and '92 and '96 LT1 was the power of the new 300. Tommy Morrison ran a specially prepared '90 ZR-1 24-hour-average speed of 175.885 mph, shattering the 50-year career! Finally, we saw -96 330-horsepower LT4 engine option, and limited production Grand Sport.
What we say is that the long production cycle is not necessarily a bad thing. Now the 2010 C6 will be the sixth year of production - only one more than the C2 Corvette. In just six years, has served the Chevrolet Z06, 205-mph ZR1, and the base model with 430 horsepower. Take a test drive '10 Grand Sport revealed that the base LS3, once installed in the Grand Sport Z06 dry sump oil, could be a little 'more than TLC, the power, it's just a little' too high. According to Motor Trend, '10 Grand Sport 0-60 only 3.9 seconds and a quarter of a mile, 12.2 seconds at 117 mph. For the uninitiated, which is quite scary.
There was talk of Corvette C7 is a model 2013. Certainly it would have been enough time to develop the C7 and go right. Corvette designers, marketing and product development would be a good day to release of C7 of 60 years, a special option. Then Problem C7 has been postponed until 2014. It is now on hold indefinitely.
The C4 has the longest second of 13. C4 changes were limited to the wheel, the wing vents, and covers the front bumper and rear. Although the appearance of the car has not changed much under the body, there was a world of difference! C4S came as a lamb with a 205-horsepower and came with a burst of 330 horsepower.
Tuners like C4S, the most notable being the 1989 Callaway Sledgehammer. This 349.8-CID, 898-horsepower, twin-turbo small block was stupid enough STRE TABLE! In reality led John Ling Fields car Callaway Connecticut shop, 800 miles Centre of Transport Research in Ohio and slammed the test track of 7.5 mile run with a 254.76 km / h. Then the car was checked and driven back to Callaway store.
C4 series ran in showroom stock 85 to 88 and struggle so badly Porsche 944 Porsche has bought two corvettes to disassemble to know why they went so fast. The C4 were expelled for being "too fast".
Then there was the ZR-1. All-aluminum, dual overhead cam, Mercury Marine, built in the ZR-1 packed in a 375-horsepower from '90 and '92, and 405 horses from '93 and '95. Base Corvette only had 250 horsepower '90, and '92 and '96 LT1 was the power of the new 300. Tommy Morrison ran a specially prepared '90 ZR-1 24-hour-average speed of 175.885 mph, shattering the 50-year career! Finally, we saw -96 330-horsepower LT4 engine option, and limited production Grand Sport.
What we say is that the long production cycle is not necessarily a bad thing. Now the 2010 C6 will be the sixth year of production - only one more than the C2 Corvette. In just six years, has served the Chevrolet Z06, 205-mph ZR1, and the base model with 430 horsepower. Take a test drive '10 Grand Sport revealed that the base LS3, once installed in the Grand Sport Z06 dry sump oil, could be a little 'more than TLC, the power, it's just a little' too high. According to Motor Trend, '10 Grand Sport 0-60 only 3.9 seconds and a quarter of a mile, 12.2 seconds at 117 mph. For the uninitiated, which is quite scary.
There was talk of Corvette C7 is a model 2013. Certainly it would have been enough time to develop the C7 and go right. Corvette designers, marketing and product development would be a good day to release of C7 of 60 years, a special option. Then Problem C7 has been postponed until 2014. It is now on hold indefinitely.
