How so, I've re-read it and it seems pretty clear to me that I was saying the only thing the ZR1 might have over certain other cars in that price range is track performance but even that could change fairly soon.
I'm sick of people (by which I mean the comments on TopGear videos I occasionally watch on YouTube) jabbering on and on about how special the C6 Z06 is.
Great, because I'm not jabbering on about how special it is.
Like the car is The Little Engine That Could, just happened to enter the league of supercars and began putting up a fight.
Now your getting confusing, who's saying anything about the Corvette just beginning to put up a fight, and a fight for what. No one is mentioning a fight or the Corvette just entering the league of supercars, though I can see
why people would argue that it has no one actually
is.
Didn't GM put just as much time and money into the r&d of this car as any of its competitors?
Maybe, maybe more, maybe less, I don't know but nothing I said reflects on GM's R&D. I like the C6, it's just I like it at the US prices not the European ones. In the US it's a performance bargain and at the same time a national icon, in Europe it's neither a bargain nor an icon, it's not that every model is vastly overpriced, the base C6 for example can be had for £50k, it's just that there are a lot of cars to choose from that offer either the same performance bracket and are better known. The fact is that I can get a faster and more iconic car over here for less than the C6. No one is saying the Corvette is a bad car, certainly not me. I am however saying that at that price, GM are obviousely not at all interested in trying to get people into the Corvette brand over here because there's plenty of cars and brands that are more iconic in Europe for the same prices or less.
I'm someone that likes the C6, but give me £50k for a thrash about car that I can drive daily and the C6 wouldn't get a look in, let's got £15k higher to the Z06 price range and same again, then we go to this car at over £100k and same again. If the prices were better I would be lying if I said I wouldn't be interested given I was in the market for a car like it. The lhd drive puts me off regardless but that might be something they sort out in future models. So, can you accept this view or does it offend you to hear that the Corvette isn't much of an icon outside of the US.