My new Z06 is at my house

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nk215

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For some reason, I never really looked at pure performance car but yours looks great. I should tell my wife that I have a mid life crisis and need a guy's car.
 
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Ferzerp

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JulesMaximus said:
Congratulations! That looks amazing in that color. Got any interior pics? You know what a dash stroker I am. :p

<--I'm jelly brah. :$
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I didn't have any pictures of the inside taken. Honestly, it didn't even enter my mind because other than the seat saying Z06, and the steering wheel, it is exactly like the base car on the inside. If you've seen a 3LT with suede upper trim, that's exactly what this one looks like inside.
 
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JulesMaximus

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nk215 said:
For some reason, I never really looked at pure performance car but yours looks great. I should tell my wife that I have a mid life crisis and need a guy's car.
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Just make sure you leave the traction control on. :biggrin:

One of my neighbors had the previous gen Vette and was hooning around in it with a friend of his and turned off the TC and promptly spun it out and hit a curb damaging the suspension and wheels.

Honestly, I don't think I'd ever turn the TC off on a car like this unless I had money for new rear tires and just wanted to do smoky burnouts and donuts.
 
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JulesMaximus

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Ferzerp said:
I didn't have any pictures of the inside taken. Honestly, it didn't even enter my mind because other than the seat saying Z06, and the steering wheel, it is exactly like the base car on the inside. If you've seen a 3LT with suede upper trim, that's exactly what this one looks like inside.
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Really? I thought it might be a bit more... something to stand out from the base car. The base car is nice, don't get me wrong, but I guess I just expected a little something extra in the Z06.
 
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Ferzerp

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JulesMaximus said:
Just make sure you leave the traction control on. :biggrin:

One of my neighbors had the previous gen Vette and was hooning around in it with a friend of his and turned off the TC and promptly spun it out and hit a curb damaging the suspension and wheels.

Honestly, I don't think I'd ever turn the TC off on a car like this unless I had money for new rear tires and just wanted to do smoky burnouts and donuts.
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At the track, if you're a pro, you can shut it off. If you're like me, you use the PTM modes and trade out brake life for some really crazy performance (think GTR levels of intervention if necessary).

The only reason to ever shut it off would be for learning to launch/drag racing but that isn't my thing. The TC on the new corvettes is just part of a whole suite of technologies that play in to the active handling. You have plain old traction control, then stability control independent per wheel, the continuously varying damper stiffness (also independent per corner), and the eLSD continually varying the amount of diff lock. All together it made the base car incredibly easy to drive. I can't wait to see how this one is.
 
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Zivic

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I hate GM cars, but this is a bad@ss machine.....

too bad they couldn't make the rear look as good as the front.
 
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jaha2000

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I used to work for the company that is making those SC covers. Lots of machining time just in that one part! Congrats!
 
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Ferzerp

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OMG the sound...... (roads finally dried up and it warmed up to 70. Still have to stay under 4,500 rpm though)
 
GTaudiophile

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Congrats on your year-end bonus.
Congrats on your car. Nice choice of colors!
Merry Christmas.

Tell us in a year how many speeding tickets incurred!
 
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KentState

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JulesMaximus said:
Really? I thought it might be a bit more... something to stand out from the base car. The base car is nice, don't get me wrong, but I guess I just expected a little something extra in the Z06.
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Compared to the previous generation, the differences between the base and Z06 are more isolated to the engine and suspension with the car retaining a lot of the body panels and frame. Good reason why you can get one like Ferzerp for much less than a ZR1 and have a much better machine.
 
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Ferzerp

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KentState said:
Compared to the previous generation, the differences between the base and Z06 are more isolated to the engine and suspension with the car retaining a lot of the body panels and frame. Good reason why you can get one like Ferzerp for much less than a ZR1 and have a much better machine.
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The front half of the body, with the exception of the aero and venting, is the same. The back half is all new panels. The engine and torque tube are all new. The m7 transmission is a different version of the tremec-6070 to handle the torque. I am not sure about the A8. The suspension is, in effect, the same as the top end on the base car, but tuned differently with higher spring rates. The wheels and tires are completely different, as are the two brake offerings.

The interior is really the part that hasn't changed (which would send the price through the roof, so in a way, I am glad it isn't).


edit: Technically, the color scheme if you go with a two tone interior is different, but that's not really a substantial change in my view.
 
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JulesMaximus

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KentState said:
Compared to the previous generation, the differences between the base and Z06 are more isolated to the engine and suspension with the car retaining a lot of the body panels and frame. Good reason why you can get one like Ferzerp for much less than a ZR1 and have a much better machine.
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You know, you're right. I think I was thinking this was a ZR1 level car.

Fantastic car though. I'd take this over a previous gen ZR1 any day.
 
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KentState

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JulesMaximus said:
You know, you're right. I think I was thinking this was a ZR1 level car.

Fantastic car though. I'd take this over a previous gen ZR1 any day.
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I would almost argue that this is ZR1 level, but with a lower price. Makes you wonder why the previous ZR1 cost so much to begin with.
 
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