“You can get your wife and grandkids in a ‘vette too. just one at a time.”
I test drove a 2018 Z06. Wife said she would never ride in one again. She can’t bear being so low in traffic.
My little brothers corvettes zee something which was fast enough around 8-9 years ago
He took it to Decatur Indiana ....just had to
Around 15,000 later he had a supercharger and other improvements....not sure what the RWHP was after that....nearly 700 maybe.....less maybe.....I know the newer models would go around 800 hp
Anyhow.....he had trouble with it overheating in weather above 65.....you had to clean off leaves that got somewhere blocking air intake frequently ...I’m not being specific cause I don’t recall....we took it back and they tweaked it for free
But riding in it.....you had to have PS2s or another sort of soft tire.....that’s true of 011s too unless you enjoy tilt a whirl on heavily wooded lanes with oaks right by the shoulder
One day he had me in it and punched it on a road just as I described given hills Nashville area has no shortage...this ain’t Texas with nice groomed shoulders like around Llano
Man...it shifted from first to second no traction control ....he never used it...around 65-70.....the car went sideways strictly from that power transfer and miraculously pirouetted down the two lane road for 50 yards
With good tires
I had him take me home....I said I’ve got four kids from toddlers to grown and one in her oven.....this thing is simply overpowered for what it is for regular drivers
And that was that....and I have road raced bikes from two strokes to big four cycles and owned plenty hit cars and trucks
I started I started immediately working to get him to sell it
The overheating finally persuaded him...some cars are just dangerous....
I felt like I was in a cocoon of death squeezed in at six five 230 and how on earth would they get my dying corpse out of there
No thanks ...kind of like an MRI at 190 mph
But yes hey like the mustang can be made to haul ass
I agree with you it’s best in a car designed for such speeds
Top speed cars usually accelerate too but all accelerate cars are not heat at super speed
Hence a would you feel comfortable in a 1969 Dart 440 at 150 mph or even the venerable AC Cobra at 200 mph open top..lol
Yet in a new GTS with sure rubber 200 mph on a track or clear nice highway is not a big challenge guts wise
I drove 928 s4 RUF tuned monster around Western Europe in the 80s with a pregnant 25 year old wifey by my side and hitting 180 on the autobahn was nothing for minutes at a time
And then between Monaco and Genoa I’m winding through tunnels and a paltry 308 or 328 blows by me with kids and Benetton sweaters flapping on those curves like nothing ....
But that Corvette of my brothers....no thank you