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NAIAS 2014: Corvette C7.R Arrives
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Phillip Thomas
(IC: employee)
The Z06 has usually been a trickle-down of the Corvette GT car. Aero tweaks were unique to the .R, tricks like hood-evacuated radiator air flow, rear-fender mounted cooling ducts for various cooling system (like the differential), and a rear diffuser. Now that the C7 boasts these tweaks from the get-go, the C7.R more closely resembles its street brethren than ever before…
Chevrolet’s choice of color for the new 2014 Z06 is no mistake, they want you to see the connection.
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Published January 13th, 2014 12:30 PM
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- Jkross22 When I think about products that I buy that are of the highest quality or are of great value, I have no idea if they are made as a whole or in parts by unionized employees. As a customer, that's really all I care about. When I think about services I receive from unionized and non-unionized employees, it varies from C- to F levels of service. Will unionizing make the cars better or worse?
- Namesakeone I think it's the age old conundrum: Every company (or industry) wants every other one to pay its workers well; well-paid workers make great customers. But nobody wants to pay their own workers well; that would eat into profits. So instead of what Henry Ford (the first) did over a century ago, we will have a lot of companies copying Nike in the 1980s: third-world employees (with a few highly-paid celebrity athlete endorsers) selling overpriced products to upper-middle-class Americans (with a few urban street youths willing to literally kill for that product), until there are no more upper-middle-class Americans left.
- ToolGuy I was challenged by Tim's incisive opinion, but thankfully Jeff's multiple vanilla truisms have set me straight. Or something. 😉
- ChristianWimmer The body kit modifications ruined it for me.
- ToolGuy "I have my stance -- I won't prejudice the commentariat by sharing it."• Like Tim, I have my opinion and it is perfect and above reproach (as long as I keep it to myself). I would hate to share it with the world and risk having someone critique it. LOL.
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With the Viper now busting the GTE/GTLM class rules wide open with its 8.0 Liter engine, I wonder if Chevy will try to get a 6.2 approved instead of going with the downsized 5.5, and if there would be any meaningful benefit (better torque?) since I assume the restrictors will get smaller make sure horsepower doesn't go up at all.
If the new 8 speed is supposed to be so track focused and they want to display similarities between the Z06 and the C7R why doesn't the C7R use the autobox?