New C6 picts and some info
10-22-2003, 01:18 PM
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Unknown Interviewer: You did the Viper during your stint at Chrysler, and now Neil Hannemann, who led the Viper team, is doing the GT at Ford. Does GM need a Viper/GT class vehicle, or is the Corvette strong enough to handle that role?
Lutz: Let me tell you that the Corvette C6 will have versions where we confidently predict it will suck the doors off of both the cars that you just named. The current Z06, with 400 horsepower, on the Gingerman Raceway, laps faster with its 400 horsepower than the new Viper does with 500. So other than just brutal straightline acceleration, the Z06 is faster today. Clearly the C6 Corvette, without giving anything away, is going to be a major step forward in vehicle mass, dimensions, handling, braking and, most important of all, power-to-weight ratio. So I think whatever gap exists now is going to be eliminated
Unknown Interviewer: You did the Viper during your stint at Chrysler, and now Neil Hannemann, who led the Viper team, is doing the GT at Ford. Does GM need a Viper/GT class vehicle, or is the Corvette strong enough to handle that role?
Lutz: Let me tell you that the Corvette C6 will have versions where we confidently predict it will suck the doors off of both the cars that you just named. The current Z06, with 400 horsepower, on the Gingerman Raceway, laps faster with its 400 horsepower than the new Viper does with 500. So other than just brutal straightline acceleration, the Z06 is faster today. Clearly the C6 Corvette, without giving anything away, is going to be a major step forward in vehicle mass, dimensions, handling, braking and, most important of all, power-to-weight ratio. So I think whatever gap exists now is going to be eliminated
10-23-2003, 08:01 AM
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More info. This is from a magazine called MOTOR in Au.
[QUOTE]"General Motors executive Gary Cowger couldn't stop himself from bragging about Chevrolet's new Gen IV V8 engine. Sources within GM Powertrain have admitted to 6.0-litre and 6.2-litre capacities, but Cowger let slip that GM has also concocted a 406 cubic inch (6.7 litre) Gen IV V8.
The cubically colossus Gen IV is planned for release in the redesigned Corvette (C6) next May, initially. The engine will be built in limited numbers only - around 3000 a year for the high-performance Z06-spec Corvette as an answer to the new Dodge Viper. From there, the 6.7-litre aluminium V8 could find a home at HSV, possibly in a GTS-spec all-wheel-drive model. Cowger gave no hard facts about the engine other than its capacity.
[QUOTE]"General Motors executive Gary Cowger couldn't stop himself from bragging about Chevrolet's new Gen IV V8 engine. Sources within GM Powertrain have admitted to 6.0-litre and 6.2-litre capacities, but Cowger let slip that GM has also concocted a 406 cubic inch (6.7 litre) Gen IV V8.
The cubically colossus Gen IV is planned for release in the redesigned Corvette (C6) next May, initially. The engine will be built in limited numbers only - around 3000 a year for the high-performance Z06-spec Corvette as an answer to the new Dodge Viper. From there, the 6.7-litre aluminium V8 could find a home at HSV, possibly in a GTS-spec all-wheel-drive model. Cowger gave no hard facts about the engine other than its capacity.
