C7 SUV Equivilant
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C7 SUV Equivilant
So here I wait in the great white north (Toronto) for my vette to be built sometime in January but the idea of driving such an awesome car has me impatient.
Then I started thinking about how I'll have to go without during the winter months and suddenly I had an idea.
Now my vette will have a brother, the 2014 Jeep SRT I bought last week to complete the set of high HP big V8 daily drivers. One for good weather and one for bad. Never again do I go without all that power and torque just because the snow starts flying!
Oh and for those that are wondering, the SRT is insane! Can't even imagine what the vette will be like.
Then I started thinking about how I'll have to go without during the winter months and suddenly I had an idea.
Now my vette will have a brother, the 2014 Jeep SRT I bought last week to complete the set of high HP big V8 daily drivers. One for good weather and one for bad. Never again do I go without all that power and torque just because the snow starts flying!
Oh and for those that are wondering, the SRT is insane! Can't even imagine what the vette will be like.
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So here I wait in the great white north (Toronto) for my vette to be built sometime in January but the idea of driving such an awesome car has me impatient.
Then I started thinking about how I'll have to go without during the winter months and suddenly I had an idea.
Now my vette will have a brother, the 2014 Jeep SRT I bought last week to complete the set of high HP big V8 daily drivers. One for good weather and one for bad. Never again do I go without all that power and torque just because the snow starts flying!
Oh and for those that are wondering, the SRT is insane! Can't even imagine what the vette will be like.
Then I started thinking about how I'll have to go without during the winter months and suddenly I had an idea.
Now my vette will have a brother, the 2014 Jeep SRT I bought last week to complete the set of high HP big V8 daily drivers. One for good weather and one for bad. Never again do I go without all that power and torque just because the snow starts flying!
Oh and for those that are wondering, the SRT is insane! Can't even imagine what the vette will be like.
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I tried very hard to get Chevrolet let me do a COPO Tahoe with the 6.2 engine. They wouldn't even let me special order the 6.0 from the Suburban in place of the 5.3 in the Tahoe. They kept saying look at the 2015 Tahoe and I should contact them then.
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Not surprising they wouldn't let you do that special order. I've got Ford and Chrysler engineers in the family, and the amount of testing involved in any new powertrain configuration would seem insane to anyone who doesn't know how much money is at risk if it doesn't go well, not to mention that there might be pollution or crash-testing certification implications.
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The difference is that Porsche and Bentley are not car models, but brands. As we all know, the Corvette is a Chevrolet, and Chevrolet already makes a lot of SUVs, so why would they even need to add an SUV under the Corvette nameplate? Makes no sense at all.
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The 2014 Jeep SRT is by far the best value in the performance SUV market.
Besides as all my friends remind me, I'm not a "Porsche" guy, I'm a good old fashioned gas guzzling American made V8 kind of guy and would look out of place in a metrosexual Porsche.
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So here I wait in the great white north (Toronto) for my vette to be built sometime in January but the idea of driving such an awesome car has me impatient.
Then I started thinking about how I'll have to go without during the winter months and suddenly I had an idea.
Now my vette will have a brother, the 2014 Jeep SRT I bought last week to complete the set of high HP big V8 daily drivers. One for good weather and one for bad. Never again do I go without all that power and torque just because the snow starts flying!
Oh and for those that are wondering, the SRT is insane! Can't even imagine what the vette will be like.
Then I started thinking about how I'll have to go without during the winter months and suddenly I had an idea.
Now my vette will have a brother, the 2014 Jeep SRT I bought last week to complete the set of high HP big V8 daily drivers. One for good weather and one for bad. Never again do I go without all that power and torque just because the snow starts flying!
Oh and for those that are wondering, the SRT is insane! Can't even imagine what the vette will be like.
I'm in Toronto as well. I was out driving the C7 yesterday turning a few heads. It's tucked away today - what an ice storm!
I have a Sky Redline, and I did not get the head turns as I did in the C7. Even compared to when I took the Sky out in winter with the top down in snow gear
