Originally Posted by zman1910 ^ I don't see how you don't find them similar. I mean it is an evolution of the C5. Never said they weren't similar, just that
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09-15-2009, 03:06 PM | #31 (permalink) |
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Never said they weren't similar, just that the C6 is quite a bit more refined. Kinda like the difference between a 350Z and a 370Z. They shorten the car, cleaned up the lines, bumped the power, and refined the handling. Sounds familiar. To me the C5 looks like a bridge between a 2001 era Camaro and the C6.
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With regards to the earlier post about a “Z51-equipped Vette is more car than 99% of this board could handle on a track”; you could make the same statement about most any half-way decent high performance sports car on the market today and any “board” that exists on the internet today.
Frankly, there are VERY few people, including “enthusiasts” that are capable of taking a high performance vehicle to its limits regardless of their location or what nameplate is on the vehicle….putting the size of the fish that got away and the size of a man’s private parts, there is probably nothing that gets exaggerated more than a person’s driving ability. Moving on…. I love Corvette’s. It was a brand new baby blue 963 Corvette Stingray with factory lake pipes that first enthralled me as a kid (my family had stopped at an oasis on the Pennsylvania turnpike during a trip)…I had always aspired to owning one and it is one hell of a performance care FOR THE MONEY. But I wouldn’t buy one today. The biggest problem with Corvettes are that 1) there are just too dam many around and 2) the old farts and/or young rich kids that own them and the “my-you-know-what doesn’t stink” attitude which, as best I can tell, is standard equipment with the ‘Vette!
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So my point is, for $30K a used Z51 Vette is THE bang for the buck car that can do just about anything (IE, daily drive in nice weather comfortably, and track on the weekends). Period. End of story. It'll kick the Nismo's *** all over the track. And lets not even go into how cheap LSX's are to mod...
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Technically its a very interesting and competent car, but overall the Z is a better one and suits me far better... Ironically, all the local vette guys I met via the corvette forum also, or now own Nissan Z's......I don't miss it at all... |
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