Adrift, it's FIA GT, not Le Mans... and vettes ARE doing well there, but the stock GT3 is closer to a track-car than a Z06... and around a track, or a twisted mountain road, or, or, or, the GT3 would take on the Z06 no doubt... the Z06 is only siperior in a straight line... I love vettes... I'd take a split-window '64 with a 427 big block anytime over a GT3... but the new stuff, well, hummm... no further comments your honor... the defense rests... hehehe

 

There you are drinking again. If you find a 1964 split window with the 1964 factory 427, please let me know. It is quite rare. Like.....really rare!

 

A new Z06 would ***** slap a 997 GT3 in a straight line like a red headed stepchild.

On a a race track, given EQUAL drivers, it would be close, very close. This is simply a fact. Step our of your in-denial circle and back into the real world, ya hmar!..

 

always the gt3

 

Corvettes, including Z06's, have transverse leaf springs in the rear. LEAF SPRINGS! A stagecoach has leaf springs. The Le Mans vettes have coilovers. Hypocrites. Can't support it.

 

LOL are you kidding me? Watch the video again. Im a porsche nut and he doesnt say that.

He comments on how he was going to compare the cars unbaised even though he see's porsche as a hopped up VW beetle and he thinks a FERRARI is a scaled down version of god.

Not the gt3. And hence why the ferrari was concidered better even though the porsche wooped up on the ferrari.

 

Actually, the new GT3 is faster to 100 than the C6 Z06, at least by the road test I saw. Heck, it is faster to 100 than the GT2, if what I read was correct.

 

Please get off the crack pipe. The C6 Z06 is about a full second faster to 100 than the GT3, making its way there in 7.6 secs.

 

ok guys i also said its a no brainer. But some people keep on arguing that the vette is a better car and i could never agree since they also are for getting that the GT3 is a 6clyn vs. a 427 8cyln with a 100 more hp ( forget the price difference )
At the end of the day even a resale value of a GT3 is much higher..

 

How do you figure? Maybe as a percentage but who cares, you pay more for the car to begin with and lose just as much or more in actual dollars.

Its really not about money at all.

 

I like the new Z06 and I nearly went for one before buying a C2S this summer. I didn't because it's not all about how fast it can go, at least to me. There's something so right, so satisfying when driving the Porsche that words can't describe. I feel one with the 997 S and wouldn't trade it for a Z06. I'm getting an RS and even if the Z06 was faster, who cares, there's always someone with a faster car right around the corner. Buy what makes you happy and forget about what other people think/say.

 

Without the article in front of me, I will have to defer to this eloquently phrased rebuttal. Maybe it is at work.

Maybe this is why people prefer the Porsche...

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=2686

 

That is soo true!
I don't understand (even though I've done it before sometimes so I'm just as guilty) how we can say "get the x car because it's .2sec faster to 60 and does the Ring 10 secs faster. Who really gives a ****! Maybe I will be faster in the, on paper, slower car because it's easier for me to drive. All this magazine racing kills me..

Get the car you want, the car that gets your heart pumping when you look at it, the one that gives you the biggest smile when you drive it. period.

 

Best response in the thread.

Christian

 

Off topic, but the truth about the transverse leaf springs. Hmm, less unsprung weight, lower center of gravity and incredible durability. Yeah I'll take teh Macpherson struts. LOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvette_leaf_springs

Does anyone wonder how GM can produce Carbon Fiber body parts and expensive composite leaf springs, high tech balsa composite floors, magnesium engine cradles and and a high performance dry sump V8 that spins to 7K and still sell it at 75K.

God help us when they get the interior right.