Posted on 02/01/2014 12:54:24 PM PST by artichokegrower
A head-to-head race with a 2014 Corvette Stingray Z51 reveals that the executive sedan's performance — as well as its powertrain — is electric.
On paper there shouldn't be any doubt. The current Corvette is one of the fastest homegrown production cars currently on sale in the US. It boasts a 0-60mph (100km/h) time of 3.8 seconds and over 400hp on tap for when needs arise.
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Duped investor monies.......
You should have mentioned the $34.7 million tax break just given by Californicate..........
Back in 1980, I owned a 1969 Cougar with a 351 Windsor engine and had 60 series tires on the back with 70 series on the front. It was tuned nice and went like a raped ape.
I raced a friend of mine who had a 1979 Camaro Z28 with a 3 speed manual tranny strapped onto the stock 350 cu plant..
I beat his arse off the line for about...100 yards, when he dropped it to 2nd gear, he flew by me easy as pie.
I still liked my Red Cougar better though. It had class.
I missed that one!
Ouch!
I'm sure Obama's gestapo EPA will find a reason to out law this too.
Two companies with their hands out for our money. I will never buy from Tesla or GM ever.
Can you imagine? With the steering and suspensions they had it was like, ya had to be nuts.
You was spinning your wheels and he got hooked up I bet.
The first rails had two speed slush buckets in them for transmissions if I remember right.
Yeah let’s go best of ten or twenty 1/4 miles.
Both are gubmint motors.Who cares? I sure as hell don’t.
Nah...I was good to go with the automatic trans. Not enough torque to spin them in 1st. It could well have been that he popped the clutch too fast and was spinning his wheels in 1st gear.
It was almost 35 years ago. Can't say exactly how it all worked out but I know I did beat him off the line.
On those three-yellow trees, if your not in the process of gettin' on the gas (popping the clutch if you have one) and gettin' off the brake on the last yellow, you generally lose. If you wait until you see green, you're already a half-second too late.
I had no idea that Stanley steamers could get up well into the triple-digit speeds until recently, when I watched a “Jay Leno’s Garage” video on YouTube. He went through the entire routine of starting the burner, building up pressure, running it then shutting it down. Fascinating, it’s like a cross between normal motoring and running a steam locomotive.
They had that show on the History channel today. Modern Marvels. I was surprised how fast Jay went with it.
“The last steam cars produced could get up to working pressure from cold in about five minutes.”
Before he died Lear had one in a bus that went from Reno to Tahoe and warm up time was 20 seconds.
If he had of increased the acceptable warm up to 30 seconds he would have eliminated the boiler, condenser problem that he had.
My partner in the speed shop knew him and tried to buy the engine from his wife after he died but she wouldn’t let go of it so it died with him.
Heh. This isn’t a perpetual motion machine race . . .
Rules are the same as old. You leave before the green and in a real race you are DQ’d. Since this was a tesla ad, I guess it didn’t count he left early. LOL!
I do think it’s impressive that a 5-7 passenger sedan can keep up with any Corvette, especially considering the vehicle weight. So the Corvette should be handicapped by 5*150 lbs of ballast and the Tesla would win easily.
No, but the specification was “who would win a 500 mile race ?”
My car is plain jane buick and it gets about 375 miles to a tank of gas and it still has a little bit left. How much left, I have never tried to find out. Probably 50 miles maybe but probably not 125 miles.
But my car cost 30k in 2007. It is not a tesla or corvette.
Put these two vehicles in a safe storage situation, hermetically sealed, dry nitrogen, the best way for long term stasis storage.
And then 30 years from now, or 50 years, what would each car be worth?
All I see in the future is the only vehicles people will want are those than can be as off the grid as much as possible, no tracking, no GPS, NO Onstar, can run on moonshine or bio diesel so one does not have to be tied to any form of filling station. And also is highly EMP proof, or has a minimal amount of circuitry to be fried.
For some reason I keep thinking steam will be the answer, pellet fuel made at home, either reciprocating steam or steam turbine, or steam to hydraulic powerplants.
Hydrostatic drives driven by a steam engine. Or steam turbine to electric much like a locomotive.
And then some inventor comes up with a DIY formula of a super fuel pellet, somewhat like the fuel logs in Back to the Future III.
I think cars and trucks in the future will survive by being LOW tech than HIGH tech. Because China has all the tech, the US has almost none, China refuses to sell to US.
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