The corvette gets gawked at plenty just not in the US. You can hate all you want on the plastics but the performance you just have to deal with the hard facts.
For a person whom I doubt has ever driven a car, let alone a sports car or even on a track, you sure do have a lot of well-backed, top quality posts.
Someone doesn't like what you like? Say they're "hating". Seriously?
Grow up.
The hard fact that the plastic deforms more than my but if I were to lean on it?
I quite like the Corvette, but I think its ridiculous when its more...
devoted fans think that something with an interior like this...
Belongs in the same category as this:
But that's not the real reason why it isn't "exotic", see below.
Exotic has nothing to due with it being made of plastic or not, also the ZR1 is made of plenty of carbon through out the exterior fixed roof body, the Z06 also had a limited edition all carbon version. It is exotic due to the materials and techonolgy it's made up of as well as it being a two seater super car with a 200 + top speed. I usually gawk when I see the one and only ZR1 in my town just like I gawk at certain Mercedes and BMWs because I know the specs on them and how expensive they are. To scoff at a car that is 100k + seems a bit foolish.
composite and carbon-fiber body panels, hydroformed aluminum frame with aluminum and magnesium structural and chassis components
^ Those exotic materials and combonations are what make a car an exotic in a super car mold.
Also if it were as cheap as you describe it, then why not just build a whole new chassis and body/frame to race ALMS and Le Mans with?
With a name like "LMSCorvetteGT2" I'd be surprised if you didn't
I don't scoff at Corvettes. I never implied anything of the sort. I said that they're not on the same level as a Ferrari. By that logic saying that someone is "not as smart as Neil D. Tyson" is another way of saying that they are the intellectual equivalent of Dane Cook.
Perhaps I misread, but did you just recommend that I engineer an entirely new racing chassis and race Le Mans to prove that a street Corvette is made of plastic of questionable quality?
Once again, I said earlier that I think that "exotic" is a stupid classification. I will also say this: I have driven a C6 Z06 and a Porsche Turbo around a track. The Chevy isn't even in the same league. It was a steakhouse cut to filet mignon. Yes, I realize that we are discussing the ZR1, but I don't think that an outing in that would change my stance.
If you think that you can classify a Corvette as an "exotic" through the price, extremely vague materials namedrops, or performance numbers, then you must get out to the track more.
. You're opinion that the Z06 is garbage is subjective and not based in fact. I could make the claim that since the last confirmed Porsche production car test run at Nordschleif was 7:24 and the Z06 last claimed test confirmed was 7:22 and the ZR1 was 7:19.63, that the Corvette is clearly better. The motor trend test around Laguna Seca with the Z06 and the GT2 RS showed the Vette being faster by 2 seconds as well. However, I wont to a degree it may show the cars are better, but that is a limited degree. Yet I will say that is more proof than what you've put forth.
