Possible Super Corvette coming!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ktulu]

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Blue Devil Lives!! When GM's vice chairman speaks of an ultra-performance Corvette, we listen
BOB GRITZINGER
Posted Date: 6/29/05

General Motors vice chairman Bob Lutz won?t confirm this car exists, but he is not saying it doesn?t. We first wrote about Chevrolet?s ultra-performance Corvette?dubbed Blue Devil, most likely to catch the attention of GM CEO and Duke Blue Devil grad Rick Wagoner?shortly before the sixth-generation Corvette debuted at the Detroit auto show in January (AW, Dec. 22 and 29, 2004). We asked Lutz about the car during a recent exclusive interview with AutoWeek.

?Let?s just say [Corvette chief engineer] Dave Hill is not a guy who likes playing second fiddle to any high-performance car on the road,? said Lutz. ?My guess is we?re going to find a way to do something beyond the Z06, that would be at a much higher price point, and which would compete with some of the leading high-performance cars of the world.?

Lutz said the car may be delayed while the company focuses most of its engineering might on pulling ahead profit-making vehicles like its next-generation large sport/utilities and pickups.

?But there is certainly no lack of desire on anyone?s part to establish the supremacy of the Corvette,? says Lutz.

Spied on the Nurbürgring, Blue Devil appears to be living up to the earlier hype. Eyewitnesses said the car sounds supercharged, confirming reports the engine is likely a blown version of the Z06?s 7.0-liter V8, producing upward of 600 hp. Look for lightweight carbon fiber body parts to reduce weight to about 2900 pounds.

Pricing will likely start somewhere around $100,000 if and when the car makes production in 2006.

update:

7:40 at Nürburgring

This is gonna be one sweet ride

:shocked:

 

[scorpmatt]

wow, gm is finally developing a car to compete with the viper

 

[Ktulu]

The new Z06 does a 0-60 in 3.7, this one should quite possibly match the Enzo and surpass the GT

 

[tm37]

SEXY!

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: scorpmatt
wow, gm is finally developing a car to compete with the viper

The C6 Z06 already competes AFAIK. This is just overkill

 

[James3shin]

*DROOL*

 

[Aharami]

awesome!

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

:shocked:

 

[quakefiend420]

2900 lbs and 600+ hp?

wow

 

[SVT Cobra]

me wants

 

[Gurck]

*jizz*

 

[shud]

This is what you need when you live your life a quarter mile at a time!

Or a quarter of normal life expectency.

 

[Safeway]

Oh god. Street legal? Safe?

 

[tfinch2]

600+ HP and 2900 lbs? How will you get traction?

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
600+ HP and 2900 lbs? How will you get traction?

The McLaren F1 manages

 

[andylawcc]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
600+ HP and 2900 lbs? How will you get traction?

doesn't the Carrera GT have similar spec?

 

[Ktulu]

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: tfinch2
600+ HP and 2900 lbs? How will you get traction?

doesn't the Carrera GT have similar spec?

I believe the Carrera GT is a rear mounted engine which helps with traction, anyone correct me if i'm wrong

 

[UNCjigga]

Dook sucks.

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: Ktulu

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: tfinch2
600+ HP and 2900 lbs? How will you get traction?

doesn't the Carrera GT have similar spec?

I believe the Carrera GT is a rear mounted engine which helps with traction, anyone correct me if i'm wrong

Doesn't the Carrera also have AWD?

 

[TechBoyJK]

i will have one

 

[Horus]

"Oh sh1t! There goes the planet"

Good thinking GM...put your name back on the charts for having the most bad-assed car around...

 

[Mo0o]

The Tarheel Lives!!

 

[Parrotheader]

Sweet. I'll pick one up on the way home using my GM employee discount.

 

[PawNtheSandman]

Isn't the GM employee discount not valid on Corvette?

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: UNCjigga

Originally posted by: Ktulu

Originally posted by: andylawcc

Originally posted by: tfinch2
600+ HP and 2900 lbs? How will you get traction?

doesn't the Carrera GT have similar spec?

I believe the Carrera GT is a rear mounted engine which helps with traction, anyone correct me if i'm wrong

Doesn't the Carrera also have AWD?

IIRC the Carrera is a RWD, mid-engined car.