What is a Corvette?
Burning Brakes
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Melting Slicks
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How about Grand Touring. To me its too big for a sports car, but really fits the GT category. It's qualities really shine on the open road. It has ample room for two plus gear, all the creature comforts one would require, and the fuel mileage in OD on the highway is amazing.
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From: Norman Oklahoma - The Only State in the Union with no Blue Counties!
To me a Corvette is THE statement of an American performance machine! No matter the Gen or the politics governing restrictions on performance,,,,you don't get more American than a two seat, hold on to your a$$, Chevy!
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Hmmmmmmm. . . . small two-seat high-performance car = sports car.
Let's not overcomplicate this.
Let's not overcomplicate this.
Safety Car
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From: Coralville Iowa
I'd say sports car. Fortunately, no one has said "muscle car". It isn't that. In a former life I had a 70 Chevelle SS (no 454 but it did have the 396 aka 402) - THAT was a muscle car. Corvette handles way too well to be a muscle car.
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Melting Slicks
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How 'bout "Sports Muscle Car" or "Muscley Sporty Car"?
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Melting Slicks
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Safety Car
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From: Coralville Iowa
Honestly, yes - just about every car that I'd consider a muscle car has good to reasonable straightline performance but sucks in extreme handling situations. Likewise, every high performance car in handling situations doesn't even begin to match what I'd call a muscle car. Examples - Recent GTO = muscle car. Mustang = muscle car (sorry, but it is). Ferrari = sports car. And so it goes........
Le Mans Master
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VC where have you been? Vacation? What a life you have.
It was just a goofy comment some member made a while back and I thought it was nuts. The guy has a few groupies that are really crazy so it is better left unsaid.
It was just a goofy comment some member made a while back and I thought it was nuts. The guy has a few groupies that are really crazy so it is better left unsaid.
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