Shrinking C6
09-21-2016, 07:47 PM
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Le Mans Master
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Shrinking C6
I'm idly curious if any others share this experience.
When I back out of the garage with my C6, I feel like I'm backing an ocean liner. It seems huge. Ditto as I lumber down through my neighborhood rumbling through the stop signs until I hit a major street.
However, as soon as I get going more than a few mph, the car starts to shrink around me. I find this most pronounced when on a two lane back road practicing what the Germans call 'sporting driving. The car shrinks so much it's like it fits me, as they say, "like a glove".
Anybody else experience this sense of a car, when you get going, that you wear??
When I back out of the garage with my C6, I feel like I'm backing an ocean liner. It seems huge. Ditto as I lumber down through my neighborhood rumbling through the stop signs until I hit a major street.
However, as soon as I get going more than a few mph, the car starts to shrink around me. I find this most pronounced when on a two lane back road practicing what the Germans call 'sporting driving. The car shrinks so much it's like it fits me, as they say, "like a glove".
Anybody else experience this sense of a car, when you get going, that you wear??
09-21-2016, 08:12 PM
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ummmm...no
09-21-2016, 08:44 PM
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Give up the 'ludes...
09-21-2016, 08:56 PM
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Drifting
Yup, I sometimes feel that too. I attribute the "bigness" to sitting so low, with those beautiful wheel arches in my line of sight.
Then at speed, with brisk acceleration and flat lane changing, she gets a lot smaller!
Then at speed, with brisk acceleration and flat lane changing, she gets a lot smaller!
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09-21-2016, 09:15 PM
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09-21-2016, 09:21 PM
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I'm idly curious if any others share this experience.
When I back out of the garage with my C6, I feel like I'm backing an ocean liner. It seems huge. Ditto as I lumber down through my neighborhood rumbling through the stop signs until I hit a major street.
However, as soon as I get going more than a few mph, the car starts to shrink around me. I find this most pronounced when on a two lane back road practicing what the Germans call 'sporting driving. The car shrinks so much it's like it fits me, as they say, "like a glove".
Anybody else experience this sense of a car, when you get going, that you wear??
When I back out of the garage with my C6, I feel like I'm backing an ocean liner. It seems huge. Ditto as I lumber down through my neighborhood rumbling through the stop signs until I hit a major street.
However, as soon as I get going more than a few mph, the car starts to shrink around me. I find this most pronounced when on a two lane back road practicing what the Germans call 'sporting driving. The car shrinks so much it's like it fits me, as they say, "like a glove".
Anybody else experience this sense of a car, when you get going, that you wear??
Have a Margarita, then repeat. all will be well.
09-21-2016, 09:59 PM
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Nope I don't.
09-21-2016, 10:13 PM
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The C6 doesn't feel smaller to me as I go faster, but it feels more nimble.
Driving around town it's just another car. Build some speed on a straight road in the boonies or a twisty one, then it comes alive.
Driving around town it's just another car. Build some speed on a straight road in the boonies or a twisty one, then it comes alive.
09-21-2016, 10:17 PM
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Le Mans Master
Not really, but I understand. The backing up part is because of the long hood. Shrinking with speed is probably just getting used to it.
09-21-2016, 11:28 PM
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I'm idly curious if any others share this experience.
When I back out of the garage with my C6, I feel like I'm backing an ocean liner. It seems huge. Ditto as I lumber down through my neighborhood rumbling through the stop signs until I hit a major street.
However, as soon as I get going more than a few mph, the car starts to shrink around me. I find this most pronounced when on a two lane back road practicing what the Germans call 'sporting driving. The car shrinks so much it's like it fits me, as they say, "like a glove".
Anybody else experience this sense of a car, when you get going, that you wear??
When I back out of the garage with my C6, I feel like I'm backing an ocean liner. It seems huge. Ditto as I lumber down through my neighborhood rumbling through the stop signs until I hit a major street.
However, as soon as I get going more than a few mph, the car starts to shrink around me. I find this most pronounced when on a two lane back road practicing what the Germans call 'sporting driving. The car shrinks so much it's like it fits me, as they say, "like a glove".
Anybody else experience this sense of a car, when you get going, that you wear??
09-22-2016, 02:54 AM
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Le Mans Master
Watch for the opportunity to park side by side with a newer 911, whatever they're called these days. On the road I always thought they were short tiny little cars. My vert is only a couple inches longer...
09-22-2016, 03:14 AM
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I believe the C6 is the smallest corvette in length since the early C1s. lt is shorter than the modern 911 porshes and believe it was a design goal to be on par with the 911 in size.
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09-22-2016, 09:25 AM
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I'm idly curious if any others share this experience.
When I back out of the garage with my C6, I feel like I'm backing an ocean liner. It seems huge. Ditto as I lumber down through my neighborhood rumbling through the stop signs until I hit a major street.
However, as soon as I get going more than a few mph, the car starts to shrink around me. I find this most pronounced when on a two lane back road practicing what the Germans call 'sporting driving. The car shrinks so much it's like it fits me, as they say, "like a glove".
Anybody else experience this sense of a car, when you get going, that you wear??
When I back out of the garage with my C6, I feel like I'm backing an ocean liner. It seems huge. Ditto as I lumber down through my neighborhood rumbling through the stop signs until I hit a major street.
However, as soon as I get going more than a few mph, the car starts to shrink around me. I find this most pronounced when on a two lane back road practicing what the Germans call 'sporting driving. The car shrinks so much it's like it fits me, as they say, "like a glove".
Anybody else experience this sense of a car, when you get going, that you wear??
No.... but I would like a hit of what your smoking.
09-22-2016, 10:36 AM
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Le Mans Master
There is a lot of fluff in the taillight area and at the nose of the car.
They could have knocked off 3-5" in the rear and 1-4" off the front with absolutely no effect on the hard parts. It's literally plastic, foam, and air in those places.
It would have been the world's most perfect car if they had done that.
They could have knocked off 3-5" in the rear and 1-4" off the front with absolutely no effect on the hard parts. It's literally plastic, foam, and air in those places.
It would have been the world's most perfect car if they had done that.