Hard Data ....
Le Mans Master
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I really should put you on the ignore list, but this statement is just ridiculous. GM has said the c7 will have a significant MPG improvement over the C6 while increasing in peak HP and TQ as well as under the curve. Significant is more than an average increase of 2mpg but less than an average increase of 8 mpg. It's irritating that someone has to be so specific with you because as soon as your point has been proven incorrect you back track or move to a loosely similar but unrelated point.
Melting Slicks
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Honestly, then that will be the horsepower of the C7. As of today, GM has only officially mentioned the 450(est) number. They have not mentioned any other number, so why should I believe in another number.
GM has said nothing about offering a Pepto Bismo Pink color for the C7 either. But if Vickie Kerbeck kept making posts every day about how she believes the C7 will be(or should be) available in Pepto Bismo Pink, does that make it factual information that Pepto Bismo Pink will be offered, today? Now a month from now, and GM says they will offer a Pepto Bismo Pink color for the C7, then I will believe it. But I won't today as there is nothing from GM that says that Pepto Bismo Pink will be offered but only Vickie wishing there was, so she wouldn't have to have her daddy paint one in their body shop just for her.
GM has said nothing about offering a Pepto Bismo Pink color for the C7 either. But if Vickie Kerbeck kept making posts every day about how she believes the C7 will be(or should be) available in Pepto Bismo Pink, does that make it factual information that Pepto Bismo Pink will be offered, today? Now a month from now, and GM says they will offer a Pepto Bismo Pink color for the C7, then I will believe it. But I won't today as there is nothing from GM that says that Pepto Bismo Pink will be offered but only Vickie wishing there was, so she wouldn't have to have her daddy paint one in their body shop just for her.
.Will the next Vickie Kerbeck please stand up?
Safety Car
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Huh? Is that to imply that you think all of those will be bad news? You're not really a glass-half-full kinda guy, are you? Not to mention that I just don't see the logic behind that conclusion at all.
As for MPG, they have not given us final numbers yet, but it has been made pretty clear that mileage will be VERY good for a 450-500 hp machine. Certainly a notable improvement over the C6.
As for MPG, they have not given us final numbers yet, but it has been made pretty clear that mileage will be VERY good for a 450-500 hp machine. Certainly a notable improvement over the C6.
Trolls don't get answers. they just want to incite.
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Melting Slicks
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Safety Car
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I really should put you on the ignore list, but this statement is just ridiculous. GM has said the c7 will have a significant MPG improvement over the C6 while increasing in peak HP and TQ as well as under the curve. Significant is more than an average increase of 2mpg but less than an average increase of 8 mpg. It's irritating that someone has to be so specific with you because as soon as your point has been proven incorrect you back track or move to a loosely similar but unrelated point.
Again, DO NOT REPLY TO HIM, ever. It's not worth the effort.
Le Mans Master
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Le Mans Master
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Don't underestimate the pull BlueOx has at GM. LOL
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Guess you don't remember the whiners that went on about the gills and logo when the GS came out...yet you bought one....and that is the point you miss. C7 is gonna sell just like the GS sold and just like the C6 sold when the pop-up whiners failed.
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Wow, maybe I will have to change my name to JoesC7.
Le Mans Master
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It went on for quite a while but the fact that the body was wide but cheaper than the Z06 helped offset that objection. Plus, it wasn't a brand new generational car. It was mostly a wide-body base C6 that folks were semi-familiar with.
Team Owner
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Before that, I spent most of my time on the NCRS site as I also own a couple of vintage Corvettes.
Where did you get your username, from the Ox that pulled your cart in the vineyards while you were blue in the face from picking grapes?
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If you care to look, I joined the CF not long after it was formed by Troy. My user name was named after the C5 I had owned for two years before joining the Corvette Forum.
Before that, I spent most of my time on the NCRS site as I also own a couple of vintage Corvettes.
Where did you get your username, from the Ox that pulled your cart in the vineyards while you were blue in the face from picking grapes?
Before that, I spent most of my time on the NCRS site as I also own a couple of vintage Corvettes.
Where did you get your username, from the Ox that pulled your cart in the vineyards while you were blue in the face from picking grapes?
That's been my name for my LMB C6 vert with all the low-end torque...as in Babe the Blue Ox? Surely you remember Paul Bunyan?
Melting Slicks
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That was low!! But that was one funny comment!
Thanks for making me laugh!
Sorry Ox. I respect the hell out of you and mean no disrespect. It's a tough crowd here and this thread definitely has digressed. I couldn't help but laugh to the point of nearly being in tears from Joe's response.
Drifting
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I remember that too.. even tried a search, with no luck. He said something like "I can tell you it will be less than 472 hp" with a wink, thumbs up or some other emoticon.
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Joe,
That was low!! But that was one funny comment!
Thanks for making me laugh!
Sorry Ox. I respect the hell out of you and mean no disrespect. It's a tough crowd here and this thread definitely has digressed. I couldn't help but laugh to the point of nearly being in tears from Joe's response.
That was low!! But that was one funny comment!
Thanks for making me laugh!
Sorry Ox. I respect the hell out of you and mean no disrespect. It's a tough crowd here and this thread definitely has digressed. I couldn't help but laugh to the point of nearly being in tears from Joe's response.