C7 Corvette Grand Sport vs 911S

[trek737]

Originally Posted by Masterlu

Sorry, Porsche fan for life here.

Have to say the same goes for me... The large savings makes it very appealing to jump to the other side... But I don't see that ever happening... But hey, never say never!

[Masterlu]

I have owned countless Corvettes, but I'm in the Porsche camp now.

[1KW]

The amazing 911 R

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdwMI8NArAo[/ame]

[antipop]

I still have to see the Corvette in person (they are still a very rare sight in Europe) so I can't really compare. All I can say though is that it's very hard to beat the German in terms of fit and finishes.

I've tried to avoid the obvious Porsche but all it took was a 10 minutes drive to decide buying it. It was a great car and I miss it. I doesn't make any sense having a car here but I'm still thinking of getting a new one.

[Formerly YB-2]

As they stated in the written article (read it tonight in my dentist's office), if the GS had the automatic rather than the stick it would have been even faster. Wonder when it will get the 10spd auto from the ZL1 Camaro?

[crwilli]

Originally Posted by Formerly YB-2

As they stated in the written article (read it tonight in my dentist's office), if the GS had the automatic rather than the stick it would have been even faster. Wonder when it will get the 10spd auto from the ZL1 Camaro?

I am trying not to think about that.

[Formerly YB-2]

Craig - on the upside, you can get that 10spd trannie in the 2017 Ford F150 with the twin-turbo V6 engine for a lot less money than the ZL1. And, if you get the chance to run your GS around the Sears Point Raceway (is that where they were?) you'll be about 125ft in front of that Porsche Carrera S after just one lap. After 10 laps he will only see your taillights on the longer straights. GM, +1.

[crwilli]

Originally Posted by 1KW

One thing that I disagree about in the video is why they liked the GS more than the Z06 ? The Z06 with the right driver will outperform both the cars in the video.

Key point with all these cars would be the driver. These times were all set by a real race car driver so are reproducible. However, 95% of the rest of us won't touch those times and would probably see time deltas compress across most of these cars if we were able to drive them all. Most would drive at 7 or 8/10ths of the Cars capability whereas the test driver is at 10/10ths.

Within them, the Cars that made us amateurs feel the safest would probably be the ones we drove the fastest. That might not be the Cars with the highest horsepower/torque. Tracking out (second half of a turn) of a high speed corner is pucker time as you have to trust your line and your acceleration and GRIP will result in you hitting the outside curb exactly where needed - not too late as you have lost time or too early as you are now off the track.

Come out of the corner slower and your speed at the end of the straight is slower. The more turns the slower our times would be...

I haven't driven my GS on the track yet as I wasn't able to get it to SC for the winter.

[GeAllan70]

i drove one of these and haven't thought about any other car since....

[Formerly YB-2]

Originally Posted by crwilli

Key point with all these cars would be the driver. These times were all set by a real race car driver so are reproducible. However, 95% of the rest of us won't touch those times and would probably see time deltas compress across most of these cars if we were able to drive them all. Most would drive at 7 or 8/10ths of the Cars capability whereas the test driver is at 10/10ths.

Within them, the Cars that made us amateurs feel the safest would probably be the ones we drove the fastest. That might not be the Cars with the highest horsepower/torque. Tracking out (second half of a turn) of a high speed corner is pucker time as you have to trust your line and your acceleration and GRIP will result in you hitting the outside curb exactly where needed - not too late as you have lost time or too early as you are now off the track.

Come out of the corner slower and your speed at the end of the straight is slower. The more turns the slower our times would be...

I haven't driven my GS on the track yet as I wasn't able to get it to SC for the winter.

Perhaps the biggest difference between pro drivers and us mere mortals is the pro's are almost always driving someone else's car with no financial stake in a crash while we see $$signs popping up when we hit one of those 'pucker moments'. Don't want to crash our C350, but financially a whole lot different then crashing your GS.