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I never said A8 vs M7, I said A8 455hp vs A8 650hp+. I still stand by my belief, because I know the Z is capable of better 0-60 time with a perfect launch, but my point is that it's much harder to get that perfect launch with that much power, because they can't simply mash the pedal to the floor and run consistent times like my lower powered C7 can do.
You want cheap street to give ya a thrill, do like my wife did for her B'ville racer (which she drove for a year on the street first). Put a supercharged V8 in a first series Mazda Miata.
Certainly better power-to-weight ratio and produced for less money than what seems to have been suggested by the OP.
I know that more horsepower can certainly be fun, but let's be honest, on the street you can't utilize all of it anyhow. I can go full throttle from a dead stop in my 455hp C7 with just a hint of wheelspin off the line and then it pushes me back in the seat very nicely. If I tried the same with a Z06, I'm sure it would result in massive wheel spin and I'd have to feather the gas and I wouldn't feel that same push back in my seat at all as a result. On the track, or with super sticky tires, the Z would destroy my base model. Line the two of us up on the street and I bet 9 times out of 10 I can beat it to the next stoplight with ease.
Exactly! That's one of the reasons why I traded my 662 hp 2014 Shelby GT500 for a base 2014 Singray. The Shelby had plenty of bragging rights but I really couldn't enjoy it on the street. But two years later I traded for a 16 Z51. Now I am satisfied. I did briefly consider a ZO6 but then remembered why I traded the Shelby in the first place so I went for the Z51.
Last edited by SilverFish; 07-23-2018 at 11:06 PM.
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