As this blog explained in the past, the Nurburgring lap time was briefly disclosed by GM press office but mysteriously vanished in a matter of minutes. The fact that the flagship plagued by design and assembly ongoing problems was able to finally complete that single lap should have been good enough for Juechter, especially since it slightly lap time was slightly better than the previous generation's ZR1 lap but apparently, with naive public predicting a 6:59 time, GM decided what made Juechter "happy" was not good enough for the general public, thus, the lap time disappeared, never to be seen again.
During the last months, Corvette enthusiasts kept their hopes high, hoping the Corvette knight on the white horse, Juechter would come to the rescue of a car that for all practical purposes became the laughing stock of the automotive world and press and prove everyone wrong.
With all time release opportunities missed, by now very desperate Corvette enthusiasts drew the final line in the sand, expecting Juechter to finally do the deed at the 2016 NAIAS in Detroit, this week, perhaps through announcing a limited edition of the latest flagship, dedicated to Nurburgring accomplishment a la Dodge Viper in the past.
By now, it is obvious that none of this will happen, the show is well underway and while Mary Barra and her crew are busy praising shitty econo and electric boxes on wheels, all is quiet about Corvette C7 Z06 and Nurburgring.
To make clear, only true idiots would expect a miracle to happen but it is a fact of automotive life that Corvette circles are full of eternal optimists aka idiots and they certainly received what would be expected, absolutely nothing.
If the reasons why Juechter will never release the Nurburgring lap time (again) for that C7 Z06 "certified supercar" are still unclear, it is due purely to the purely delusional nature of the Corvette buyers, especially those stupid enough to assume that the newest is also the greatest.
In reality, considering the fact that the newest flagship managed to marginally beat the C6 ZR1 car is not good enough, the improvement was marginal at best and most of all, it falled very short of the times set not just by the Nissan GTR and Porsche 918 but OMG, Generation 4 Dodge Viper ACR.
Certainly, even Juechter realized that a car advertised as the pinnacle of automotive performance (and a bargain, too) displaying either one of those idiotic dash plaques with Nurburgring lap time and/or cheesy exterior graphics would look pretty stupid should someone owning Dodge Viper ACR Nurburgring Edition decided to park next to it.
Had it not been for the fuck up by GM press office, releasing that lap time that apparently makes Juechter "happy", nobody would know but fortunately this is not the case.
So what is left for the C7 Z06 owners to pretend their purchase can be justified with something else than the idiotic dash plaque disclosing the horsepower and torque TEMPORARY ratings? Not much actually, especially since the current Generation of Dodge Viper managed to score a truly mind boggling number of US track records and with times that are clearly impossible for C7 Z06 to even approach?
Well, there is always dragstrip, cars and coffee and sales figures (excluding the currently unsold cars clogging up the dealer lots). With regards to half-mile and full mile runs, top speed salt flats runs or US tracks, these should be permanently forgotten for the latest Corvette flagship.
Certainly, 2016 NAIAS is good for something, lesson in humility for the tools who bought these con jobs on four wheels and good laugh for this blog and perceptive automotive enthusiasts. HAH!!!
You cant introduce a RING edition if your car blows up before finishing the RING ! lol
ReplyDeleteno C7 RING time which tells me it blew up before finishing !