Dirty corvette!!!
Melting Slicks
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From: Waynesville NC
"Figures don't lie, liars figure".
Just another example of the intentional reporting of mis-information on the part of the news media to sway the populace into supporting some sort of political agenda based upon simple BS rather then true facts and data.
God bless the engineers and those of us able to reason for ourselves!
Regards,
GSRANDY
Just another example of the intentional reporting of mis-information on the part of the news media to sway the populace into supporting some sort of political agenda based upon simple BS rather then true facts and data.
God bless the engineers and those of us able to reason for ourselves!
Regards,
GSRANDY
Welcome to the world of smoke and mirrors. Open your eyes folks, and read between the lines of our deceptive media!
Racer
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From: Folsom California
They took it out of the article. I hate bad journalism. It seems to be rather prevalent these days. Just look at a few articles on CNN on any given day and you'll find it.
And they should add the ZR1 to the list of the rarely driven cars that have very low production.
And they should add the ZR1 to the list of the rarely driven cars that have very low production.
Race Director
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From: Upstate NY
Safety Car
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From: Godfrey IL
24.9 AVG. on the C6 DIC
22.0 AVG. on the C5 (the wife now drives it....hmmmm....)
Now I know why all the visitors to my office asking me what my average is on my C5 and C6 this morning.
Tech Contributor
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From: Van Buren Arkansas
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Leaving all politics outside, the larger issue here is a news organization that's stating false fasts therefore making false claims. Obviously they didn't do their homework or there was some deliberate trashing going on of our cars. We are the owners and we know the real facts. It was very interesting that Forbes suddenly got the firestorm of emails, comments and who knows what else then suddenly removed "Corvette" from the list of bad cars. They should have come here for their facts as we "know"!
Le Mans Master
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From: FORT LAUDERDALE FL
i don't know. i've not got better than 14.3 around town on my A6 - ever. never have done highway. my CTS gets 18-20 around town and can get 24-26 highway. those are my REALISTIC numbers. my Avalanche gets 14-16 in town, 18-21 highway. 
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Melting Slicks
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They had a similar article on Yahoo the other day ( Forbes was the source ), didn't mention the Vette, but the CTS-V, not the regular CTS . Same thing with the Audi A5, and few more, I wanted to smack someone after reading that trash. Lets compare a Hybrid with a HP car and see who wins....Trash, pure Trash. Useless biased information, and the lemmings buy into it!
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Le Mans Master
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From: Iowa
They had a similar article on Yahoo the other day ( Forbes was the source ), didn't mention the Vette, but the CTS-V, not the regular CTS . Same thing with the Audi A5, and few more, I wanted to smack someone after reading that trash. Lets compare a Hybrid with a HP car and see who wins....Trash, pure Trash. Useless biased information, and the lemmings buy into it!
I also suspect that one of the reasons we see DIDN'T see some cars on the list is driven by advertising revenue.
Le Mans Master
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From: Midwest
It appears that they chose the model/option that gave them the most dramatic numbers. For the Corvette they gave the numbers for the ZR1, and for the CTS they gave the numbers for the CTS-V. Amusingly the text of their article states
So why exempt the AMG model Mercedes, the BMW "M" series and "exotics", but hammer Audi's "S" model, Cadillac's "V" model and Chevy's "ZR1" model, which are also low production, high performance models?
So why exempt the AMG model Mercedes, the BMW "M" series and "exotics", but hammer Audi's "S" model, Cadillac's "V" model and Chevy's "ZR1" model, which are also low production, high performance models?
