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Originally Posted by Conissah
The bolded section is a lie. The C8 ran a 7:28. The 991.2 (the OLD Turbo S), ran a a 7:17, the new 992 is expected to break the 7 minute mark. The C8 is not even on the same level as the Pcar, NEVER will be. I've been in many Vettes (C5 and up), while the quality is slowly improving, it's still a mass produced American car.
American cars in general are always "best bang for your buck." But look at what the least reliable vehicles are, in the US, for 2019. Pretty much across the board, the number 1 and number 2 LEAST reliable are GM vehicles. I'm not saying that a SS 1LE Camaro won't smoke my M2C on track, or even a C5Z, but I couldn't care less about lap times (only reason I listed them above is because that statement was 100% false). If you're after the fastest "new" car for the least amount of money, by all means spend your dollars where you want and if that's the C8, HAVE FUN, after all that's why we buy these things.
Given my stance, which should be pretty obvious in my posts, on American cars, I'll be a liar if I said I didn't cross shop a 2020 2SS 1LE and a GT350 with the M2C, but ultimately you can see what I went with. I'm not trying to say that that they're shit cars, they just aren't for me.
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The 992 was pretty recently released as was the new C8. I’m not comparing a a current Corvette to the last model top tier model 991. In fact I stated that it already beats the new 992 not that it will beat yet unreleased models of 992, I wasn’t speculating on what might be nor would be. I was just making a point the new base Corvette beat the new base 992, comparing apples v apples as it always should be. I used the word turbo to demonstrate that the C8 base NA car was able to beat the new edition of 911 which is turbo powered and the Corvette is quite a bunch less expensive. I do see and understand the confusion it posed.
When we get to the ZO6 and maybe ZR1 then we can compare the upper levels of the Porsche’s and see how they shake out.
I compare lap times because that’s what sports cars do, kind of their #1 job. Some say they don’t care about track times but often it’s only when data doesn’t coincide with their opinion or cars they favor. When their fav wins out they love to talk about them but if not, track times are irrelevant. Not talking about you because I don’t know what you’ve been saying. I’m not one of those guys that dismissed performance numbers in high performance sports cars and rather talk about colors i think are ugly, chrome vs powder coat wheels, how much trunk space or back seats, how it fits in at the country club.....