Corvette C7 Test Prototype ’13 DLC Out Now!

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You do understand the concept of camouflage don't you and that it's used by all manufacturers for all cars when they aren't launched yet when testing? Ofcourse the taillights are completely different as the masked version was aimed to disguise the real lights, you know, to fool us.
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Adding on to this, the camouflaged one basically had an extra piece of bodywork put on top of the regular taillights to house a much simpler design.
 
Chrunch Houston
A game you bought over two years ago just gave you a brand new car. For free - There should be no complaining.
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Until we (individually) have every single car in the game, any car that shows up in the UCD & OCD are new. Some of the cars that I PAID FOR that were on the disc, I might not ever come across. I've hit the 1000 mark and I'm still getting odd fracking Miatas that I don't own!!!


If you think about it, not being able to adjust this car is a good thing. It prevents legalized cheating, the ONLY advantage or disadvantage anyone has is their driving ability. I've been saying that PD should have an available tune that is setup with their expertise. The garbage default tune that is on many cars does nothing to encourage people to play this game.
 
So in a speed test with the C7, I hit 208mph. That seems pretty fast for a 1500 kilo car with only 464 hp. So I tried some other cars with similar specs, and nothing else comes close to hitting that sort of speed. For example, I tested a 2010 Camaro with 1500Kg and 464hp, roughly the same torque, and the best it could do was 184mph. That's a huge difference. It needed 660 hp to hit 205mph, which was the best I could do.

What's up with that?
 
DaveTheStalker
Until we (individually) have every single car in the game, any car that shows up in the UCD & OCD are new. Some of the cars that I PAID FOR that were on the disc, I might not ever come across. I've hit the 1000 mark and I'm still getting odd fracking Miatas that I don't own!!!


If you think about it, not being able to adjust this car is a good thing. It prevents legalized cheating, the ONLY advantage or disadvantage anyone has is their driving ability. I've been saying that PD should have an available tune that is setup with their expertise. The garbage default tune that is on many cars does nothing to encourage people to play this game.
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Tuning is legalized cheating? I've heard it all now.

Also if the default setups PD did use are supposedly garbage what makes you think they have expertise to make a better tune? If they did, why wouldn't that be the default already?
 
leeson
So in a speed test with the C7, I hit 208mph. That seems pretty fast for a 1500 kilo car with only 464 hp. So I tried some other cars with similar specs, and nothing else comes close to hitting that sort of speed. For example, I tested a 2010 Camaro with 1500Kg and 464hp, roughly the same torque, and the best it could do was 184mph. That's a huge difference. It needed 660 hp to hit 205mph, which was the best I could do.

What's up with that?
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Different engine.
Different transmission.
Different gear ratio.
Different torque figures.
 
leeson
So in a speed test with the C7, I hit 208mph. That seems pretty fast for a 1500 kilo car with only 464 hp. So I tried some other cars with similar specs, and nothing else comes close to hitting that sort of speed. For example, I tested a 2010 Camaro with 1500Kg and 464hp, roughly the same torque, and the best it could do was 184mph. That's a huge difference. It needed 660 hp to hit 205mph, which was the best I could do.

What's up with that?
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The Camaro has the aerodynamics of the 2010 Camaro, for starters. Curb weight has almost nothing to do with top speed.
 
Indeed. It was a one make practice race and all the cars were bunched up drafting and jostling for position. You break clear at the first bank though as the A.I. drivers get scared they'll fly over the top into the sea. Someone should tell them there's a fence up there.
 
Maybe top speed of C7 is higher than it is in real life. Never until now a car with under 500HP has reached 200mph. Ferrari F50 went just there having 525HP and less weight, which for every 50KGs added, 2% of the engines power is waisted. So, for 250 kilos of weight difference between F50 and C7, 10% of power is minus for C7 which with all others equal it should have 50HP more than F50 to reach 200mph. Plus, even if F50 has Cw=0.35, C7 must have Cw=0.29 to reach 200mph. Very difficult. Lets see the real top speed when it launches then.
 
Ferrari F40: 201 with 478hp.
Porsche 959: 197 with 450hp.
Lamborghini Diablo: 202 with 492 horsepower.


Top speed overwhelmingly has to do with gearing, horsepower and aerodynamics. The weight of the car has very little bearing on it; to the extent that it only influences it indirectly through the rolling resistance of the tires.
 
Well, all I can say is that new 'Vette must be one slick puppy. Greased Lightning. And the Camaro must have the aerodynamics of a Freight-liner in comparison.

Pretty impressive about the Yellow Bird. A car from the 80's with 469hp doing 211mph is nuts.
 
leeson
Well, all I can say is that new 'Vette must be one slick puppy. Greased Lightning. And the Camaro must have the aerodynamics of a Freight-liner in comparison.

Pretty impressive about the Yellow Bird. A car from the 80's with 469hp doing 211mph is nuts.
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No its scary as ****, You literly drifting around a corner o.o.
 
The Corvette probably could have pulled 190 way back in 1993 with the upgraded ZR-1. The issue has always been that since the Corvette got a 6 speed transmission in 1990, the highest gear has been an overdrive gear. Because of that, the top speed was functionally limited to whatever it was in 5th. On the ZR1 and C5, that was 175-180. On the C6, that was 185 (or 195 on the C6 Z06). That doesn't mean that that was the aerodynamic limit, though.


The Dodge Viper always had the same issue, except the aerodynamics were poorer (offset by how much more power and torque it had).
 
Those older Corvettes also had the problem of the door windows falling to pieces at about 150mph. That kind of lowers the top speed too when you **** yourself cause the window just blew out.
 
SimonK
Tuning is legalized cheating? I've heard it all now.

Also if the default setups PD did use are supposedly garbage what makes you think they have expertise to make a better tune? If they did, why wouldn't that be the default already?
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Tuned cars handle better than than untuned cars. Just compare a stock GT Academy car to its Tuned counterpart, in default parts and settings.

Legalized cheating is simple enough to grasp Simon. In SPEC racing there are no modifications or tuning that are not applied to all cars.
 
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I quite like this car. It's noise is amazing, it looks fantastic. Handles like a dream.

Hell, even the tail-lights are growing on me.
 
Classic
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I quite like this car. It's noise is amazing, it looks fantastic. Handles like a dream.

Hell, even the tail-lights are growing on me.
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I share the same feelings. I am going to go ahead and say it, but the 2014 Stingray is now my favorite car of all time.

I really liked everything about it once I saw the full car, but after driving it around on Route X and exploring the car in photo mode, I absolutely love it.

:)
 
Classic
I quite like this car. It's noise is amazing, it looks fantastic. Handles like a dream.

Hell, even the tail-lights are growing on me.
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I hope the taillights grown on me, right now the back of the Corvette C7 looks like the love child from the 2012 Acura TL and the 2012 Camaro (rear sections from both). Everything else I love, love, love!

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+

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+ a bit o' Barry White and you get

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in my opinion
 
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