Andy M3

091 - Fast Club 2006. This month there is an interesting shoot out between a diverse mix of cars including a Hartge H1, a Rage Buggy , and Dodge Ram to name but a few.

The Mitsubishi FQ340 provesd to be quicker than a 997 Carrera S to 100mph by 0.02 of a second ! They also did MAX runs, and the Clio Trophy managed 134.2mph, which is short of the claimed top speed ?!!? As far as grip goes though the Porshce and the Evo are about on par pulling over 1.1G

I will read on............

richs2891

Cool will look forward to reading that when it arrives !!

Richard

Nevetas

Just arrived through the letter box

davyboy

I want a Corvette!

TopBanana

Where's my copy

meganesport.net

yeah I read that this morning, for all the banging on they do on cliosport about 182s even the trophy was slower round the track than the astra VXR! Wasnt expecting that result at all

AudiLover

Why?

n one

iTrader: (5)

Suprise suprise, mine arrived this morning too.

Its usually late


Had a quick look but I like plenty time to have a good read

davyboy

Why not 8.94 to 100, good top speed, good lap times......and I like the noise they make!

Listen the rubbish you've been posting lately, you might want to stop now, unless you want to make more of a fool of yourself

Chins

Evo now have a proper VXR rather than the press cars. After owning a 182 with Cup options, I'm not suprised.

Chins

What were the track times of the cars and 0-60 and 100 if they did those tests?

AudiLover

Theyre Left hand drive and have leave spring suspension. The nurburgring lap time is surronded in controversy and it takes a very good driver to get the best out of the car. If your a average driver you would be faster in a viper.

You might aswell get a TVR, cheaper, more exotic and just as fast or faster if your not talking about the Z06.

davyboy

Astra VXR
60 7.26
100 16.7
Lap Time 1.33.13

Trophy
60 6.64
100 17.25
Lap Time 1.33.75

davyboy

I have no problem with LHD cars. Leaf spring or not, it does appear to work.

TVR - no thanks, I want a car that works, not some ****ty unreliable heap.

AudiLover

Reliability has risen dramatically. Have you seen the interior of the Z06 or heard about the ride. Id rather get a ultima GTR than corvette. Cheaper alot faster, just as comfortable.

davyboy

A much as I'd love an Ultima GTR to say it's as comfortable as a Corvette is laughable. One is a road legal race car, the other a fast road car

You can't make this stuff up.

Cheers mate, thanks for the laugh!

AudiLover

The corvette might aswell be a road legal racecar. Just a **** one at that.

A Z06 has no comfort at all. Unless they cheated and gave publications Z06 with the track ready suspension setup so they post fast lap times and then the customer Z06 more friendly set-up. GM is known to do marketing BS of the sort. Makes you wonder why they didnt realise offcial ring times for the Z06 even though they booked the entire track out for themselves.

davyboy

LOL - your awesome

Any car that can get to 100 and stop again in 13.95 secs is going to post pretty quick times......and this on an engine/brakes that are just 300 miles old!

Anyway.....can't wait to see what other rubbish you post

carl

Indeed, you don't need another ****ty unreliable heap to join your 15 year old Porsche, do you?

AudiLover

Yeah a 2 tonne mercedes can do that too but you dont see that posting such fast times. Also some american magazines have the 0-60 times for the Z06 listed as faster than an enzo. Infact all the times from amsrican magazines are always a second or so quicker than the times from european magazines.

But if you want to waste your money on a Z06 thats your choice. A M3 csl did the ring only 8 secs slower than the Z06 and that has like a 140hp disadvantage and is limited to 155mph I belive. Shows you what a truly great handling car can do compared to a medieval chassis witha great big stonking engine. The Z06 is nothing special.

So you own a 15 yr old porsche No wonder you think corvettes so great. But on reliabilty stakes Id take the TVR anyday.And I thought you said the TVR was a heap of ****

davyboy

Yeah I own a very reliable 15 year old 944 turbo (200 laps of the ring and counting), a Clio Cup and an Astra Sri.

To be honest I'd own many cars before the corvette, I just think i'd find room for one in my dream garage.

BTW can you even drive? I suspect you are not very old at all.

davyboy

****ty heap it may be in your eyes, unreliable it's not. It's actually 16 years old now, and still going, not something you here of many TVR's not is it!

carl

No, mine's only 8 years old but still going strong

BTW a Corvette will suffer as many electrical problems as a TVR, because it's also made of fibreglass. Twice as many wires to everything electrical, you see.

davyboy

I've never though obout the electrics like that

However, I'd put money on a fact a Corvette suffers less electrical problems than a TVR

carl

I think you might lose. One's assembled by Northerners, the other by rednecks, so not much difference there. But a Corvette has a lot more electrical stuff in it than a TVR, like ABS, TCS, ESP...

davyboy

I wonder if there is a Corvette BB (bitchin' board) we can look at

Castrol

Davy

He loves Audis but drives a Volvo... So he says!

Castrol

And oh yes, any car that posts the 4th fastest lap time (in such illustrious company), deserves respect - from real Petrolheads anyway.

Cheers

PS How much faster per lap was it than the Audi? Oh yes... Mmmm!

AudiLover

4th fastest lap in what? This car should be compared to TVR's and Ultima GTR's etc. Its a shoddily put together, flimsy yet about 200kg overweight thats only good at track days. Its basically a track day car and at that a poor one. A ultima Gtr would **** all over this.

And audi's RS4 posted a lap of 7'58 around the ring. The corvette C6 posted a time of 7.59. The 'ring time for the Z06 however is disregarded as its unofficial without a propper source. Just pure hearsay, and if it was true the marketing machine otherwise known as GM would have taken full advantage of it.

AudiLover

And whats really funny is that the audi's top speed is limited to 155mph so it would have posted an even faster lap if the limiter was removed. Corvette is simply overglorified. We have better homegrown talent than that 7.0L 500hp POS.