Ever since the douchebag in charge of the seventh generation Corvette started nauseating automotive world with self proclaimed automotive revolution in the form of the Stingray, the Corvette team continued to lace the marketing bullshit and propaganda with the newest generation culminating at Nurburgring, supplying the ultimate validation to so called "world class sports car".
Well, as it happened, the shit hit the fan and C7 presence on Nurburgring course turned into the biggest publicity failure the supposedly America's favorite sports car ever suffered. In fact, the humiliation exceeded the damage inflicted on the plastic fantastic with gold chains and platform shoes back in the 70's. Not surprisingly, in spite of a couple of attempts, the new Stingray failed to complete even a single run aroun the track, quite an accomplishment as failures go.
As expected and stated on this blog on several occasions, the douchebag named +Tadge Juechter and his ego, too big to fit at the same time, with him in the same room dug the hole deeper with the introduction of the newest GM flagship, Corvette C7 Z06 and once again, Nurburgring appeared in the background of the newest flagship. In fact, things went well beyond the usual innuendos, with Nurburgring silhouette gracing the background of the new flagship during the press introduction.
Of course what happened next is nothing short of the biggest slapstick comedy ever, rivaling the Marx Brothers and Abbott and Costello in the level of (unintended) funny stupidity. Fatso named Jim Mero crashed the car at Nurburgring and the ride on the back of the tow truck was as close as the newest flagship got to completing the run.
Fast forward to this year and the continuous horrible publicity surrounding the failure to deliver the promised performance raised the panic to such level that +General Motors decided to take on the Nurburgring track once again, hoping to deliver the missing validation for the ailing and failing plastic fantastic "flagship".
Once again, what followed was the next segment of GM comedy, starring Tadge Juechter, Corvette team and most of all, a group of idiots calling themselves Corvette enthusiasts. In fact, the latest round of Nurburgring delivered the latest standard in stupidity: Tadge Juechter recommending "doing the math" and Corvette morons coming up with their own Nurburgring results. Obviously, Juechter was folowign the numbnuts and refused to provide the actual time, instead hinting on the fact he "was pleased".
On June 26, 2015, apparently someone at GM failed to comply with the gag order and Nurburgring lap time was disclosed on GM website. The time was better than of the last ZR1 but not by much, less than a couple of cheeseburgers worth, and considerbly smaller difference than the advancement in tires woud suggest and most of all, considerably worse than the time made up by the Corvette sheep. Also, what made this "accomplishment" so pathetic was the fact the time was considerably worse than Nissan GTR and not even close to the previous generation of Dodge Viper.
Long and behold, the annoucement disappeared faster than one can say Tadge Juechter blows goats and no explanation was provided why the announcement was pulled.
As it is right now, there is absolutely no follow up from GM or Juechter and if it was not for this blog, nobody would even know about it. But... since the annoucement was caught, the time is known, certainly falling short of the expectations.
As expected, the sheep prefers to live in the fantasy world and their stupidity must be making rounds since articles like this one started popping up in the automotive press.
http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/news/a26008/corvette-z06-nurburgring-time-rumor/
What is happening here? Is Juechter trying to ease the ignorant public into the reality of the Nurburgring laptime? Is this why the announcement was pulled? Will there be another article, this time denying maybe 7:11 and then another one until the time is finally disclosed (again)?
In reality, the time is not all that bad and the latest porker was finally able to complete a full lap, apparently the problem lies with the tools expecting too much and Tadge realizing the real extent of the outcome. Too bad Tadge, the deed is already done, at least come clean about it. Grow some balls Tadge!!!
Autoweek: "We asked Chevrolet for a comment this morning, but until the Nurburgring lifts its ban on manufacturers publicizing lap times, don't hold your breath on a confirmation."
ReplyDeleteI thought the only 'ban' was speed limits being placed on certain parts of the track. Not an actual ban on recorded lap times being publicized. What a load of bull shit. Unless the GM knows something that Capricorn Group doesn't....
I think that the time was slower than the ZR1. Wasn't there some zip on the corvetteforum, by the name of jvp, who was claiming to have gotten the inside scoop from vadge? Jvp the zip, was even willing to take wagers from members, he was so confident of his figure. Jvp is more of a joke than anything else!
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