The Corvette E-Ray is dead, long live the Grand Sport X
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13:1 compression? Where they getting grumpy about hot-rodders taking old superchargers (I think they were on most C7s sold) and dropping them in new vettes?
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Blue and red leather interiors are sort of in keeping with the leather jackets preferred by the fan club, but blech. Same here.
Otherwise, tech is great, value proposition is world-beating, styling as always leaves me cold. Corvettes always get my respect but they need to move in the direction of some of their more minimalist recent concepts and away from the "HEY DID YOU NOTICE THIS IS A CORVETTE" styling.
And the tech is cool. More sports car makers need to do something like this. It'd be really interesting to see Porsche do a similar setup with a "Carrera 4e," imo.
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I think the ZR1X was the answer to that question with two 74mm turbos (1064hp) paired with the same electric motor.
I watched a DragTimes video where the ZR1X easily beat a Demon 170 - which is more race oriented, and a Tesla Plaid (although not by as much margin).
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Yes but it's better than the bright red leather that was in the GM-supplied photos:
Yeah but they spent all their money on the T-Hybrid instead. The 911 Turbo S T-Hybrid is AWD but the electric motor is upstream of the transmission so sends power to all four wheels not just one axle.
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Well, they could just dip into some of this year's profits and-ooh wait
In fairness, the T-Hybrid setup is insanely cool, so.
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Nokian making winter shoes for it? Tirerack says no can do. I've seen a few around town at 2500 meters altitude but not in winter.
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Indeed. It's almost like the 100+ years of development have yielded impressive technological advances.
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Gotta disagree with you there. Red is at least a car color because it's also the color of stoplights.
Blue is the color of water, therefore it belongs on boats, not cars.
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Hot damn that's blinding.
My Genesis had red seats/headliner but the rest was bog standard grey/black.
I don't think I could handle THAT.
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Wholeheartedly agree. My rule is that if a vehicle has or should have a manual, or is used for towing, it should be ICE. Otherwise, EVs are the way to go.
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I would definitely applaud more Ferrari inspiration, rather than the current Lambo wannbeism.
In my selective memory, Old Corvettes were elegantly curvy.
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Grand Sport was always the sweet spot for price and performance… Curious to see if the General is greedy w the GS badge.
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"Grand Sport X" sounded like a crossover. "WTF?" I thought, "after the Mustang and the Capri, they're doing it to a Corvette?"
I'm pleased that it is not so.
I'm pleased that it is not so.
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At least it's not International Klein Blue:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue
IKB makes one think sometimes that their brain is short-circuiting.
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The GS models often had nice selected combinations of features. This one sounds no different. Cool touch, relocating the slashes (how could you not want the slashes denoting a GS model?).
Fascinating explanation of how compression ratio was safely raised to a traditionally crazy level (with no extra-weird combustion chamber geometry noted). I am curious how well the system will age, if the vibration signature will shift too much with wear, carbon buildup, or whatever to be reliable later in life.
Fascinating explanation of how compression ratio was safely raised to a traditionally crazy level (with no extra-weird combustion chamber geometry noted). I am curious how well the system will age, if the vibration signature will shift too much with wear, carbon buildup, or whatever to be reliable later in life.
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Some of the lower-end trim options, without all the edgy frufera, can be really nice looking 'vettes. No wings, no "extra aero" that doesn't do anything on the street anyway, etc. I've seen quite a few of these and they're just gorgeous.
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That's the important one, think the stingray was a bit too camaro looking from the rear. I think the V8 (not flat plane) has a bit more torque when you hit the throttle versus the Z06 I (briefly) drove at an event, throws you back in your seat a bit more
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Why do I get the feeling that we're going to be hearing about AI-equipped engine control systems soon?
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Possibly, but there really isn't any need and that just ups the computational burden. Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) can (and as a classroom exercise, at least used to be) done by hand, albeit very slowly. Since what they're looking for is particular frequencies and patterns of frequencies, FFT's and old-school "conventional" software is plenty good enough if, and it's the point they're making, the processing is fast enough.
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Blue, blue, 'lectric blue
That's the colour of my Vette room
Where I will live
Don't you wonder sometimes
'Bout your 'Vette's engine?
-David Bowie's "Sound & Corvette Engine"
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You can be sure someone somewhere will garble this into fast Fourier transmissions and want to make sure their car has one?
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FWIW compression ratios can go even higher with direct injection. At issue is the need to preinject some fuel during the intake stroke (as in a traditional port injected system), to aid flame propagation and reduce emissions. It also helps clean intake valves. An aftermarket tune can be done to remove this so that only air is compressed with no fear of preignition. This is how we get 2.0l turbo four engines with 500+ HP. Of course, due to spewing a similar emission profile to a deleted diesel engine this is clearly not road legal.
What GM appears to have done here is enabled tighter control of the intake charge, keeping it just out of range for preignition while keeping emissions in check.
With regards to emissions I believe Biden era rules were leading towards exhaust particulate filters for GDI (Gasoline Direct Injected) engines. It is needed unfortunately. Both my Camaro and Regal GS puffed black ash on startup (common with GDI) so I can only guess at what was shit out at WOT.
What GM appears to have done here is enabled tighter control of the intake charge, keeping it just out of range for preignition while keeping emissions in check.
With regards to emissions I believe Biden era rules were leading towards exhaust particulate filters for GDI (Gasoline Direct Injected) engines. It is needed unfortunately. Both my Camaro and Regal GS puffed black ash on startup (common with GDI) so I can only guess at what was shit out at WOT.
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Maybe up to the C3, but after that Corvettes have been pretty ugly. The C8 is the first one I actually like to see in the wild. Pretty? No. But at least cool.
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You will very quickly be out of the vehicle buying business. As soon as MT started to rapidly die in China, it was over.Until they have 3 pedals again I'm out of the Corvette owning business.
Yes, we all know it's slower. No, none of us care.
Currently our JDM trucks all still come with MT, but there might be some required government stuff that will raise the safety requirements, if that happens, maybe they'll dump MT and go for CVT only. (None of the current truck models have ever had an actual redesign and are mostly derived from the 1950s trucks still.)
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I think the present styling leaned hard into being Ferrari-esque when the C8 launched and that defaut/base Stingray design continues to look fantastic. I agree the Z models with their over-the-top maws / aero have gone in the direction of tacky (Lambo-ish) though.
I love the older Corvette styling because they are (almost*) all distinctly cool while clearly being products of their respective times...
"Almost" all, because there are notable exceptions. The 78-82 (fastback glass C3) starts to look like "Corvette Summer". Most of the C6 generation already looks more dated than some of the C4/C5 designs (the C6 was hit by all the questionable GM design choices of the mid-00s). Lastly, most of the high-end C8 variants - some of these boy-racer designs are going to age like a forgotten gym bag.
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The colored interiors are all-in and I dig it. It's not for me but I'm glad they did it kind of thing.
They're getting some serious power numbers now, and even without pricing info I assume they will remain solid deals for what you get (with the caveat that I haven't driven one).
They're getting some serious power numbers now, and even without pricing info I assume they will remain solid deals for what you get (with the caveat that I haven't driven one).
If I'm reading your comment correctly, you're thinking it only has DI. The article mentions DI which is correct, but it leaves out that the LS6 actually has direct and port injection. So it gets the best of both worlds.
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