2015 Corvette C7 Z06- General Motors replaces a legitimate track car with a GT poser track car replica

If the dead could arise from their graves, there is no doubt Zora Arkus-Duntov would be already busy pulverizing +Tadge Juechter for the true atrocity he just committed on a car wearing the formerly meaningful Z06 moniker, something that Duntov worked so hard to establish during his stint at +General Motors .

What is a Corvette Z06 suppose to stand for?  A lighter version of a production Corvette, with extra power and handling upgrades and brakes worthy of racing on a track or road curse.

Both previous generations of the Corvette accomplished this mission rather well, with the best of the bunch being 2006 C6 Z06.  Of course things went downhill from there as the performance of the car was so good that then upcoming Corvette ZR1 would have a pretty hard task of justifying its steep price increase over Z06.

There is no doubt that the Z06 formula Duntov came up with works and it works very well.  Light chassis and no frills interior and big displacement naturally aspired engine lend themselves very well to endurance racing and considerably better than the heavier and considerably more expensive ZR1, highly susceptible to the effects of heat soak and power robbing supercharger parasite.

One problem here, very few so called Corvette enthusiasts actually race their cars (unless someone sets up a road curse in their church or golf course parking lot and even then, LOL) and these people are more concerned with the color of their upholstery than the actual race performance of their car.

Another problem here, the development and production cost of high performance naturally aspired and high revving engine is considerably higher than its lower compression and displacement supercharged counterpart.  GM never really resolved all the problems with the LS7 engine, they were minimized on the updated later parts but the older ones, they are a true time bomb waiting to explode in the owner's wallet.

As it is, Juechter either intentionally or through his ignorance, decided to take the supercharged route and eliminate any possibility of creating a worthy successor to the last Z06.  What as produced is a travesty of a track car, a lookalike, with the visual deceptions implying its Z06 orientation.

To see a 3600 pound behemoth pretending to be a track car is very sad, at least to those who understand the principles behind a sound track car.  Lighter is always better, no matter how much bullshit Juechter spews, heavier cars can be raced and tracked but the cost of doing so goes up quite a bit.  Maybe Juechter is retarded and does not understand that heavier car wears out tires, brakes and suspension parts considerably sooner than a car that weighs less?  Once again, Juechter comes across not as an engineer but a fully ignorant high school drop out pretending to be a mechanical engineer.  Did Tadge buy his degree online or in Philippines? 

So what is this new porker really?  In reality, it is a  replacement for the previous ZR1, just heavier and with worse weight to power ratio than its predecessor.  In other words, the new car is inferior not to just the real track car it supposedly replaces but the last ultimate GT Corvette.  To top it off, the car is not only heavier but it also has worse aerodynamics than either of the predecessors, clearly demonstrating how incompetent really Tadge Juechter is.

To sum it up, the new Z06 is a poser that will be bought by the typical poser crowd, too busy with the next coat of wax and extra carbon fiber trim piece than the actual (lack of) performance aspects of the latest SO CALLED Z06.