The plot thickens as General Motors generates multiple explanations for the 2015 Motor Trend Best Driver's Car fiasco of Corvette C7 Z06

A few years ago, a tool named Ralph Gilles allowed a preproduction car to be released for automotive press sponsored testing.  The car was SRT Viper, the test was Motor Trend Best Driver's Car, the year was 2013 and Ralph Gilles happened to be the CEO of SRT.

What happened to the SRT Viper during the aforementioned test could be described as nothing short of disaster, resulting in the new Viper landing in the 12 out of 12 spot, fairing worse than even Ford Fiesta.

Fast forward to 2015.  The SRT brand is no more, rather quickly dismantled after the Motor Trend disaster and Ralph Gilles is no longer a CEO, sent back to play with crayons (still collecting a paycheck from Chrysler since outright firing could get Obama and  Sharpton upset).  And how is the now DODGE Viper doing?  On artificial life support ever since, never recovering after the press fiasco.  Lesson to learn?  Absolutely!!!  But... one has to have the intelligence and will to learn.

Enter 2015 Motor Trend Best Driver's Car event and long and behold, it is like a case of deja vu, with the car expected to score high, ranking last, with a very curious annotation attached to its rank, DNF like in DID NOT FINISH!!!

The car is of course the +General Motors "finest" and according to +Tadge Juechter (or is this one of the Ringling brothers?) a true supercar and MOST CAPABLE (-track) CORVETTE EVER, Corvette C7 Z06.

Now, Motor Trend, a pretty respectable automotive publication has already a string of disasterous encounters with C7 Z06 Corvette, in fact, this most capable Corvette ever had to be put through Willow Springs TWICE to allegedly conquer the pretty stale Nissan GTR.  Never mind the bullshit excuses of basic track preparation steps that somehow were forgotten by the Corvette clowns and never mind the GTR was not present during the phony rematch, the Z06 was finally able to win or at least this is what Motor Trend and its GM benefactor claim.

So now, this is another time Motor Trend tests the flagship and this car takes a most spectacular shit on the track, failing to finish the competition.  While the car is being tested, the team of GM "experts" attempts to remedy the loss of boost and subsequent loss of power but somehow the team fails to figure out the problem.  The flagship finishes the competition but it is excused due to the breakdown.

Shortly after end of the event, with the flagship ending dead last, there is a statement from Juechter's team of "experts" blaming of all things, California 91 octane gas for hampering the performance of the flagship.  From the get go, this latest excuse sounds like the newest bullshit record attempt, especially considering the claimed octane issues during the Willow Springs event and tiny problem with none of other competitors having any issue at all, just the flagship.

Yesterday, there is another statement coming from the Corvette team, interestingly enough from the idiot in charge Juechter but another clown, named Harlan Charles, a guy who has absolutely no fucking clue about engineering aspects of the flagship, with his designation as the MARKETING manager resolving any possible doubts about his clueless demeanor.

So here is this other Ringling brother, telling another fairy tale regarding the problems at Laguna Seca, this time it is UNPLUGGED ELECTRICAL CONNECTION TO THE SUPERCHARGER COOLING SYSTEM that is to blame.  Really lap monkey boy?  The car was able to be driven without sending any warnings or going into the all popular limp mode?  There is a problem here due to the way the supercharger pump is wired, to allow it to be both load and speed sensitive, with the feedback being send to the ECU in order to prevent overheating problems (without cooling working, the IATs would be right around 250 degrees during full boost, as already stated on this blog just a while ago).  In other words, the diagnostics panel would lid up like a Christmas tree while the car would be in the limp mode in no time.

One has to wonder if the Corvette team geniuses come up with this crap collectively or do they take turns?  Without any doubt, crawling under the proverbial rock and remaining silent about this fiasco would be the smartest thing that ever came out of these people but apparently they just do not want to quit.

On the bright side, the car did not overheat this time, unlike in the past, making the entire matter even more comical.   By all accounts and hopefully unintentionally, what GM did was introducing a much anticipated GRAND SPORT version of Corvette C7, making it look like the flagship but removing the randomly available power.  Realistically, considering the waxing aspirations of the typical geriatric Corvette buyer, the car did its job, delivering an acceptable lap time while castrated, what other validation would a poser edition need?

Hopefully again, the whole charade was not a deliberate action on the part of GM, since without any doubt, overheating issues would make that lap time considerably worse.  A failure or an attempt to disguise the notorious overheating problems plaguing the flagship.  Perhaps Juechter, Charles or any other of these clowns make come up with even more creative fairy tale to cover up the failure of flagship's engineering failure? 

In the meantime, the list of greatest bullshit excuse hits composed by Corvette team continues to grow.  Keep up the good work GM!!!

Click on the photo of these morons for the song they really should be singing while packing their stuff and vacating GM offices.