[QUOTE=baddabang;704812]Go take a look at some of the popular corvette forums. I found this on a particular one and the current owners of the C6 Z06 actually like it.[/QUOTE]
Are you sure there was no bias? :D
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[QUOTE=baddabang;704812]Go take a look at some of the popular corvette forums. I found this on a particular one and the current owners of the C6 Z06 actually like it.[/QUOTE]
Are you sure there was no bias? :D
As much as I hate Ferrari, they have Plexiglas windows because their engines are good looking. This is an Escalade engine with a fancy top piece.
[QUOTE=my porsche;704821]As much as I hate Ferrari, they have Plexiglas windows because their engines are good looking. This is an Escalade engine with a fancy top piece.[/QUOTE]
Lulz, boosted LS7 [size=1]=/=[/size] Escalade engine.
ok 6.2L V8 plus .8L = Z06 engine.
[QUOTE=baddabang;704739]Since when is a clear engine cover rice? It's the most powerful corvette ever produced by GM why not show off the goods?[/QUOTE]
Because it kinda ruins the flow. Clear engine covers on front-engined cars look out of place. They look much better on mid-engine cars.
BTW the Z06 looks better than this "Z07"
[quote=my porsche;704830]ok 6.2L V8 plus .8L = Z06 engine.[/quote]
They are completely different engines dumbass. Vortec =/= LS7.
[QUOTE=my porsche;704821]As much as I hate Ferrari, they have Plexiglas windows because their engines are good looking. This is an Escalade engine with a fancy top piece.[/QUOTE]
And a porsche is just a hopped up Volkswagen.
Honestly don't be so ignorant. The LS7 uses old technology, that's a given fact. However the engineering the went into the LS7 specific heads and intake manifold isn't. Either is the all aluminum block.
It's not an Escalade engine and the Corvette is not a truck. I'm no fanboy, not really biased in any direction, but I'm getting sick of people either putting the LS7 down, or praising it like its perfect for any car.
For the Corvette it [B]is[/B] perfect, delivers a wide powerband, low weight and size, high top speed, great acceleration, and excellent track times.
So please just shut up and accept it for what it is. Not a truck engine. Not an ancient V8 with terrible emissions and milage. It does exactly what it's meant to; provide a durable and very powerful engine in a package that doesn't make the car exorbitantly expensive.
That being said, the window looks bad.
[QUOTE=my porsche;704821]As much as I hate Ferrari, they have Plexiglas windows because their engines are good looking. This is an Escalade engine with a fancy top piece.[/QUOTE]
You have it backwards.
The Escalade engine is a modifed iron block LS2. LS2 came first, then they modified it and dropped it in the Caddy.
[QUOTE=baddabang;704812]Go take a look at some of the popular corvette forums. I found this on a particular one and the current owners of the C6 Z06 actually like it.[/QUOTE]
Blind faith? It does not really seem to make sense to me that the target audience of this car would like a glass thingy on the hood showing the engine; but hell I could be wrong, seems un-American. It would look way better as in intake.
If that honestly makes it to production it will not ruin the car, but it will make it much, much cheesier.
Wait, so not only is GM trying to compete with Ferrari and Lamborghini in performance, but also in engine covers? What's next, a rear-engine Corvette?
Yea... that engine cover makes it about a rice as a Ferrari 196 s Dino Spyder or a 250 TR59.....:rolleyes:
Maybe they should actually try and make the engine nice looking as well, rather than just have that giant plastic engine cover.
[quote=F1_Master;704875]Wait, so not only is GM trying to compete with Ferrari and Lamborghini in performance, but also in engine covers? What's next, a rear-engine Corvette?[/quote]
Actually rumor has it thats coming in the form of a Cadillac in 2010/11 or something along those lines.
I'm all for the Z06, but the plexiglass isn't doing it for me. I guess I will have to wait to see it in person though.
In Motor trend I believe that the z07 has an intake on the hood, not that dumb looking clear roof. That might have just been for publicity... you know letting the media see the engine better with the top down. Either way it just looks horrid.
*edit* a second look at it and their is no proof that their is a sheet of plexiglas installed in the hood. Might it just be an empty hole saved for production?