camero concept carFollow

omg, im buying one.

call it a midlife crisis if you want, my wife is, i dont care, im buying it. not asking persmission either.

gotta wait till 2008.....ARGHHH.......i can do it.........

Mehh.
American cars

All fine until you hit a bend.

When (apart from the GTO) are you gonna make a car that can corner like a European Car?

Get that fixed and you'll RULE THE WORLD (if it isn't for those meddling kids)

I'll stick with my order for a Merc SE Kompressor Coupe

The problem with the new ratings display is I can't tell how close Shadowrelm is to subdefault.

Like I said - If you think a Corvette can corner you need to try out an Alfa Romeo, a Lotus or a Maserati on a bendy alpine road.
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after 1985, corvettes went to an all alluminum chasis with the engine relocated farther behind the front wheels. they lowered the center of gravity too.

the corvette today is nothing like its ancestors. it is a racing machine that will out corner everything but the most exotic production cars like the lamborghini or ferrari, and even then, the cornering is so close to those, you need very sensitive instruments to tell the differance.

this camaro will not have the light weight alluminum frame the vette does, and the center of gravity is about an inch higher, but from the picture you can see the front wheels, like the vette, are mounted far foward of what normal cars are, making the weight of the engine and transmission more centered to the middle of the vehical.

adn like the vette, it has the same 4 wheel independant suspension, with the same wide tires mounted very high on the platform into the fender wells. and like the vette, it has the same light weight alluminum engine pumping out a whopping 400 hp.

it WILL corner better than most eurotrash, like the bmw and mercedes, and as good as most higher end european sports cars.

and most importantly, it will blow away just about all of them in raw power. you just cant beat the sound of tires spinning so fast there is no squeling, and the smell of a fog of burning rubber gently waifing around the sides and front of the car just before the melted rubber sticks like glue to the heated asphault and launches the car so fast, you feel a couple G,s pushing you back into your seat.

my first car was a 1969 camaro with a 350 engine i opened up and put a small block 400 crankshaft into, amoung some other things, creating a 383 cu inch small block pumping out close to 450 hp.

ahh the good old days. when every one knew what eldabrock, holly, mallory and crane ment, adn no one gave a crap what kind of radio you had.

but i guess with a rice burner, and most eurotrash, you had no engine to be proud of, so you had to find something else to "hop up", hehehe

Yes, here in the states we have enough land for straight roads!

Not being funny

I drive quite a few cars and even High end US cars don't corner well.

Just sayin'

I'm not arguing with ya Nobster. I tend to agree. My Ford Ranger has a tighter turning radius than most cars...and that's just plain sad.

I've been viewing some of the Top Gear series that some people have taped and put on Google Video- I'm not going to discount bias, (though they held an Australian car over the equivalent level Jaguar model in one episode) but it seems that a lot of American cars pale in comparison to the stuff that's created over on the other side of the ocean insofar as sports cars go.


I want an Ariel Atom

I mean, yes, I'd have to wear a helmet for the car, but having the equivalent of 600+ horsepower (and 0-60 in 2.7 if you can shift fast enough) just sounds too fun.

Gah! Cars suck. Motorcycles are far better in cornering, acceleration, handling, et cetera, et cetera.

If you pit the fastest car in the world against the fastest bike, the bike will be finished the race before the car even gets up to speed. Here's an example.

Corvette's are crap, they're all looks. My brother in his Saturn SL2 can give one a run for it's money.

Put that bike up against an M3 or M5, we'll see who wins.

Honestly, you are making yourself look stupid here. it is impossible for a car to beat a bike. Here is an article explaining why. If you understood the physics behind it and actually rode one, you would understand why.

Or maybe not...


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I'm not saying all cars can, but this one can because it lacks (among a lot of things) those problems that other cars have. I'm just poking at your "impossible for a car to beat a bike" comment.


Edited, Wed Feb 1 11:58:25 2006 by Althrun