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Chevrolet Confirms 2015 Corvette Z06 To Debut At NAIAS
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Derek Kreindler
(IC: employee)
Published: December 4th, 2013
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Just off the wires, we have word from Chevrolet that the 2015 Corvette Z06 will debut at NAIAS in January – the perfect time slot to steal some of the thunder from the Blue Oval, which will show the all-new Mustang and the F-150 to the public for the first time. Last year, Ford managed to upstage GM’s truck debuts with the surprise unveiling of the Atlas concept. Looks like GM is exacting some revenge.
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Published December 4th, 2013 12:44 PM
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Let's hear it for fender flares.
Who cares?
@APaGttH: You, my friend, are the cherry picker. I compared a 1990s spec 3.4 to Chrysler's 3.5 of the same time period. It took 14 years for GM to get a 3.5 pushrod V6 to make the same amount of power as a SOHC 24 valve V6 from 1993. And by 2007 that same 3.5 Chrysler V6 had been making 250 horsepower (with the exception of the slightly lower output 234 hp version) for eight years. I just don't see how GM could produce a major change from the LS7's current 505 horsepower output while maintaining OHV architecture without: A: Making the engine bigger or B: Adding forced induction. And not changing the power output at all when the regular 'Vette got a power boost would just be strange.
Well I know enough to know that RPMs are what make power for many a naturally aspirated engine, and the Ferrari V8 makes as much power as it does because it revs so high. And hey, I'm not trying to be an expert...if I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and free knowledge is a damned useful thing. I probably learn more stuff that I actually care about on here than I do paying for college classes.