Z06 C7.R vs 2016 Viper ACR
05-09-2015, 07:00 AM
#41
Burning Brakes
05-09-2015, 07:27 AM
#42
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
I'm trying to figure out why people keep acting like the C7.R Edition Z06 is anything other than an appearance package. The car is a Z07 with a Jake decal on the hood. The ACR Viper is a hard core track car that hardly anyone wants to live with for day to day driving. The Viper will be good for its intended purpose and it should be. No comparison between the two cars imo. They just have different purposes overall. I think Chevy wasted the C7.R name on this car. It would've been cool had this car been a hard core track machine like the ACR. But using that storied name just for a decal and some sill plates is kinda lame.
05-09-2015, 08:02 AM
#43
Burning Brakes
Thread Starter
While the Viper ACR is very tempting, I am actually embarking on a program to keep my C6 Z06 competitive while we wait for GM to pull it's head out it's corporate *** and recognize that even a couple hundred highly focused cars will do an enormous amount to keep the whole Corvette brand from becoming a flaccid poser of a track car. While Dodge introduces another incredible and capable ACR Viper GM gives us this?
http://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/...-z06-c7-r.html
"Chevrolet Introduces 2016 Corvette Z06 C7.R Edition
Track-to-street connection honored with limited production model"
I would rather they honored the "Track-to-street connection" with some serious hardware. The last time I looked at the real C7.R I must have missed the "yellow contrast stitching and striped wheels with yellow brake calipers". What I saw was AP Racing, BBS, Pratt-Miller, and whole raft of serious performance components that could be incorporated into a real track capable Corvette in same way they were in the Z06X concept car of a few years ago.
At some point, if you ignore customers long enough, they will go elsewhere.
http://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/...-z06-c7-r.html
"Chevrolet Introduces 2016 Corvette Z06 C7.R Edition
Track-to-street connection honored with limited production model"
I would rather they honored the "Track-to-street connection" with some serious hardware. The last time I looked at the real C7.R I must have missed the "yellow contrast stitching and striped wheels with yellow brake calipers". What I saw was AP Racing, BBS, Pratt-Miller, and whole raft of serious performance components that could be incorporated into a real track capable Corvette in same way they were in the Z06X concept car of a few years ago.
At some point, if you ignore customers long enough, they will go elsewhere.
05-09-2015, 09:24 AM
#44
Le Mans Master
While the Viper ACR is very tempting, I am actually embarking on a program to keep my C6 Z06 competitive while we wait for GM to pull it's head out it's corporate *** and recognize that even a couple hundred highly focused cars will do an enormous amount to keep the whole Corvette brand from becoming a flaccid poser of a track car. While Dodge introduces another incredible and capable ACR Viper GM gives us this?
http://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/...-z06-c7-r.html
"Chevrolet Introduces 2016 Corvette Z06 C7.R Edition
Track-to-street connection honored with limited production model"
I would rather they honored the "Track-to-street connection" with some serious hardware. The last time I looked at the real C7.R I must have missed the "yellow contrast stitching and striped wheels with yellow brake calipers". What I saw was AP Racing, BBS, Pratt-Miller, and whole raft of serious performance components that could be incorporated into a real track capable Corvette in same way they were in the Z06X concept car of a few years ago.
At some point, if you ignore customers long enough, they will go elsewhere.
http://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/...-z06-c7-r.html
"Chevrolet Introduces 2016 Corvette Z06 C7.R Edition
Track-to-street connection honored with limited production model"
I would rather they honored the "Track-to-street connection" with some serious hardware. The last time I looked at the real C7.R I must have missed the "yellow contrast stitching and striped wheels with yellow brake calipers". What I saw was AP Racing, BBS, Pratt-Miller, and whole raft of serious performance components that could be incorporated into a real track capable Corvette in same way they were in the Z06X concept car of a few years ago.
At some point, if you ignore customers long enough, they will go elsewhere.
05-09-2015, 10:45 AM
#46
So, do you think the Z06 C7.R will beat the ACR? That was the question I posted, not if the Viper sucks or if the brand is going to go out of business, or if it's a better road car than a Corvette. Will the Z06 C7.R be faster? After all Chevrolet told us it's the most track capable Corvette ever.
05-09-2015, 11:54 AM
#50
I'm trying to figure out why people keep acting like the C7.R Edition Z06 is anything other than an appearance package. The car is a Z07 with a Jake decal on the hood. The ACR Viper is a hard core track car that hardly anyone wants to live with for day to day driving. The Viper will be good for its intended purpose and it should be. No comparison between the two cars imo. They just have different purposes overall. I think Chevy wasted the C7.R name on this car. It would've been cool had this car been a hard core track machine like the ACR. But using that storied name just for a decal and some sill plates is kinda lame.
Those who are comparing ACR to "C7.R" (as GM's ultimate track weapon) is fooling themselves. Consider this, I think the Viper has 3 variations:Viper: SRT, T/A, ACR.
Corvette: Stingray, Z07, ???
05-09-2015, 01:24 PM
#52
Le Mans Master
Nurburgring!
The last straight has freee time! The ZR1 last sat at around 185, which, is a good extra safe speed for the Z06 now! The 918 probably hit 200 there juicing it up!
Last edited by johnglenntwo; 05-09-2015 at 07:33 PM.
05-09-2015, 01:36 PM
#53
Yes, I know sales of such cars are low, but these are the machines that maintain the credibility of the brand and are bought by club racers and a few guys like myself who want an unapologetic *** kicking sports car.
05-09-2015, 02:27 PM
#54
Team Owner
For those that keep saying the ACR can't be driven every day you are totally wrong and anyone who has owned an ACR will tell you the same thing.
What is comical is whether it be an ACR or a Z06 who would want to drive it everyday anyway, real sports cars should be driven as a treat not a DD.
The fact is you can cry about wings and use ability all you want, the ACR will set the bar real high and GM has never had an answer for it.
What is comical is whether it be an ACR or a Z06 who would want to drive it everyday anyway, real sports cars should be driven as a treat not a DD.
The fact is you can cry about wings and use ability all you want, the ACR will set the bar real high and GM has never had an answer for it.
05-09-2015, 02:30 PM
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This didn't take long 
the ACR looks like a bad boy but Dodge has practically died on the vine with their new Viper sales, despite it being a pretty bad ace car. ACR isn't anything new though... get me their Hellcat-Viper blown version and I'd find myself in my first Dodge ever 
the ACR looks like a bad boy but Dodge has practically died on the vine with their new Viper sales, despite it being a pretty bad ace car. ACR isn't anything new though... get me their Hellcat-Viper blown version and I'd find myself in my first Dodge ever
05-09-2015, 02:36 PM
#56
Drifting
The ACR Viper is a hard core track car that hardly anyone wants to live with for day to day driving. The Viper will be good for its intended purpose and it should be. No comparison between the two cars imo. They just have different purposes overall. I think Chevy wasted the C7.R name on this car. It would've been cool had this car been a hard core track machine like the ACR. But using that storied name just for a decal and some sill plates is kinda lame.
05-09-2015, 02:44 PM
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05-09-2015, 03:22 PM
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Lets not pretend that the "gotta have it now" crowd will keep that up for the Z06. Numbers will drop off dramatically if history is any indicator after the first 1-2 years. After the first two for the ZR1 they fell into "Viper" territory for numbers moved a year.
05-09-2015, 03:42 PM
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Team Owner
To be begin with.
Nothing to do with sales of this Z06. Better times less expensive of a car. The Z06 should sell more look at the history of the Z06 not ZR1.
Don't compare dismal Viper sales either!
05-09-2015, 03:45 PM
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Sales won't continue at this brisk pace. Just the way it is. To think so is crazy.
Good for Chevy for now, but it just ain't going to happen.