Yeonne Greene, on 11 March 2016 - 08:06 AM, said:
There is so much wrong in this post...
Corvettes have not ever been straight-line warriors. They have always been agile for their time relative to the competition, and continue to be so. It wasn't Porsche that got complained about so hard the SCCA banned a generation of them from the normal racing series due to winning all the time. Until the recent generation of Porsche 911s, the Corvette held more records on multi-faceted tracks like the 'Ring...it's still pretty high up on the list (13) with the now aged C6 ZR1; only the GT2 RS and the 918 are above it from Porsche. And how about a short, technical track like Maza Raceway Laguna Seca, where the only Porsche topping the Corvette is the million-dollar 918? And Randy Pobst drives all of them, so it's probably one of the best tracks to use when drawing performance comparisons.
And after all that, Corvettes actually don't use much more fuel than a Porsche, if any really. The US EPA fuel economy ratings (which are produced against a more rigorous criteria than EU fuel economy numbers) are about the same, and in practice both cars get much better than that. I drive one, an older one, even, which should not be getting even 27 MPG according to its sticker but does far better than that at 30-32. Around town it's about 18.
Porsche makes a fine car, but its primary strengths over the Corvette are not really technical, they are about production values. And the 911 is an inherently bad design made good through work-arounds; the Cayman is the better car.
/Corvette owner salty about the common misrepresentation.
With all due respect, You can be as salty as you want, that doesn´t necessarily make you right or in any other way add weight to your statements. It only means you
may be to emotionally vested in the subject matter to stay calm and rational when discussing it. That is not an accusation.
FTR, I also own a Corvette, a black 1976 (*edit* 1972, stupid tablet and fatass fingers...*) C3 ZR-1 that rolled off the line the same day I did, to be exact. And I used to drive a 1978 Porsche RS 2.7, which I sold specifically to purchase said Corvette for reasons other than performance (and in retrospect, that was very stupid from an investment perspective.)
Regardless of that entirely irrelevant fact, You appear to be discounting about 50 years of both vehicle´s historys so as to be able use only the last 10-15 to make a blanket statement about performance, while I am talking 1947 (1953 in teh case of Corvettes) - present viewed as a whole. Modern history does not overwrite or take precedence to older history, nor does it make statements about that history any less valid simply by measure of them not being equally true when applied to modern iterations of the vehicles.
Now, can we get back to teh archer? *raises beer stein
Edited by Zerberus, 11 March 2016 - 08:49 AM.
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