Penforhire

PDK <> "auto" Try behavior more like a sequential manual gearbox, just no clutch. You know, like a race car.

zachismisitok

I mean, do you shift or do you not shift

its pretty easy to differentiate between the two

[DT]

A C6 with a regular slushbox vs. a manual vs. PDK, yeah, that's all out of whack. I can't help with the comments on the interiors - personally I think people are way too obsessed about stitching.

Make the Vette a manual 6-speed (newer TR6060), Z51, DM exhaust, toss in the 4LT interior option (you know, for more stitching) and rerun the test. I don't know if it would finish any higher, but certainly all the objective performance metrics would favor the C6.

ziggy55

the corvette ragtop is too heavy and doesnt look as good as the z06 or the coupe. but also the interior of any corvette for the base-zr1 doesnt have nice interior.

Dr. WOT

Well maybe someday GM will start advertising in C&D and the Vette will finally get a fair shake.

I agree that was unfair to use a Vette with bad tires, but I don't understand why you guys are mad a C&D? They asked GM for a car, it's GM's bad for not giving them a better example.

Piss poor marketing from a badly mangaged compay if you ask me, they should have drove a Gran Sport down from Bowling Green to make sure they had a ringer in the test. Why they didn't is unknown, but yet another example of why all of us are now part owners in GM.

JonBoy

Did GM give them the car or did they actually rent it?

pdexta

There's a big difference in 15k miles on a car and 15k miles on a rental sports car. You've seen what people do to rented minivans right? I can only imagine what they would do to something with 400hp. That thing has certainly had a rough life.

Dr. WOT

It's the tires. They were wrong out run-flats. If the car is tired after 15k mi, it's crap, I don't care how hard those miles are.

[DT]

They probably should have just for kicks, but you know what? Regardless of the state of GM, the Corvette is kind of "review proof". There's a _tiny_ percentage of people who might read that C&D article and might consider another ride. C&D's take on the Vette isn't significant (far less than general decline in car sales, the economy, etc.).

You can take the above an swap out Corvette for Porsche and it's the same kind of thing.

Chris Stack

IMO, it's Corvette or Boxster for #1, basically depending on your mood. I'd take either one, and if given one, I probably wouldn't sell it for the other. That the Boxster was loaded with $10k+ of options and the Corvette was a rental on crap tires was stupid, but neither of those things changes the fact that they are the two best $60k sports cars, +/-. (I know Vette coupes are cheaper, but this was a roadster test)

The Z4 I like, but it's not a sports car.

The Audi is, was, and always will be a sackless chickwagon.