C6 Corvette on Top Gear
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Originally Posted by DakarM
just like all corvettes, the C6 needs tons and tons of tires. i'm sure the runflats probably didn't help either.
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Originally Posted by More&Faster
ya i gotta say they were too rough on the vette. usually i agree with them on their criticisms...especially on american cars. the corvette deserves a little more respect than they gave it though, imho.
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Originally Posted by redgoober4life
That's what I was thinking about watching it around the track--it's too much car for whatever GM has it running on, it seems.
yep i can usually beat a C5 vette or even a Z06 C5 if they are on the stock 275s or 285s.
But most of them put 275 R compounds up front and 3xx in the rear so they beat me with that setup.
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Originally Posted by RB
valid, but the cars they were comparing them too were almost double the price for which a C6 would cost. I think they should have taken the price a little bit more into consideration before railing on it so bad.
yep and that is where the american car companies will always win.
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Ahahah that was funny. "the colonies" :db: Anyway, I was pretty impressed with the performance and keep in mind that for them the car is an import. He said 40,000 pounds, which is about $73,000 for a base Corvette. 
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Originally Posted by g2tegls
Ahahah that was funny. "the colonies" :db: Anyway, I was pretty impressed with the performance and keep in mind that for them the car is an import. He said 40,000 pounds, which is about $73,000 for a base Corvette.
he also said 100K pounds for the base 911. which is about $175K US.
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Originally Posted by DakarM
he also said 100K pounds for the base 911. which is about $175K US.
And then continues to criticise the it's interior and "old technology."