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Originally Posted by THE EVIL TW1N
it is. Look at the track times. This is the $100,000 ($98,000) Z07 version. Hardly cheap. Still surprised a $4x,000 car can give it a run for its money!!!
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I'll believe it when the two are run on the same track, on the same day, and driven by if not the same driver then at least equally skilled drivers, and they're shown to be within say half a second on a normal sized road course. Then I'll believe that the two are near equals.
Until then, I'll refuse to believe that the Boss is just as fast as the Z06 when it gives up 60 hp, 450 lbs, about an inch of rubber on all 4 corners, and umpteen different little things that the Z06 has in its favour. The laws of physics don't allow for that to happen unless there is a bunch of technology helping you out (such as with the GTR).
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Originally Posted by syr74
The only problems I have with Ring times in general is that.....
1: .....there exists no governing body to determine who is playing by what rules and not every manufacturer plays at all. And, even when they do, how seriously they take knocking down the fastest possible time varies.
2: .....I think the average speed is too high to give a good indicator of how the car is going to perform in the vast majority of owner's hands, even at the typical racetrack. The Ring finds cars capable of the same spending time well into triple digit speeds for a relatively large percentage of your trip around the circuit. Even most guys who get track time in their cars won't see speeds that high for any length of time, if ever, at most tracks in the U.S. It made sense to me when Porsche did it because their cars were, on occasion, genuinely driven at those speeds by enthusiasts in Germany at the time (the Autobahn is so crowded now things have changed somewhat) Then Nissan decided they wanted to show how great the GTR was by running it against the Porsche times, and then other manufacturers started to play.
I just don't get the fascination. Of course, an increasing number of manufacturers are running the Ring now. Even Ford has gotten into the act of late.......so it goes.
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When an OEM like GM takes a car to the Nurburgring, they don't do it for bragging rights, at least not exclusively. Its done to tune the ride & handling of the car because there is no other single place in the world where they can gather as much data as they can at the 'ring. Sure they like to post the best time that they got, but thats not the real reason they spend all the money to fly cars & engineers out there.