Z06 top speed: "a top speed of 198 mph (as recorded on Germany’s Autobahn)".
That is 318.65 km/h so we should have 198 mph (319 km/h). http://media.gm.com/us/chevrolet/en/product_services/
r_cars/r_c_corvette/index.html
nickpicking a little bit too...
at the high speed test 2006 the Z06 reached only 315km/h = 197mph and the Z06
was 1.1s slower at 300km/h as the 997 Turbo :-p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hy7LZWnCUI
Z06
09/02/07, 18:51:46
Just decide which top speed you want: manufacturer's or officially tested?
I will contact FastestLaps directly, you guys are just behaving like kids.
Here is my last words to you: I own a 2006 Z06. I drive it on the race track
against street legal cars and so far I always won. This is what matters to me.
you don´t get it?
I jump on you at every Z06 topic..because you fight die hard the 7:42.99min time
vs 911 Porsche...
If the Z06 does 200 or 199 or 198 or 202..who cares? I am not..it is a great
car.. best bang for buck...
the second Oscherslebentime was taken at a direct compare between F430, Zo6,
997Turbo, GallardoSE
At this test the GallardoSE was the fastest the F430 the second the Z06 the
third and the 997 Turbo the fourth. Between the first and the last was less than
a second (0.9s)
Clay Garland
24/04/07, 02:19:38
It's not going to happen, so I'm not going to bother with timeslips, but the
Z06's 0-60 time is actuall 3.4.
No it isn't, that was just tested by road and track, it's official time is 3.7.
Other wise you could change the 997 turbo time to 3.2 seconds
Clay Garland
25/04/07, 05:33:14
All Magazines use different testing methods, Motor Trend uses car mounted
devices with imprecise accelerometers. GM's official stance says 3.7, and GM is
ALWAYS conservative. Hell, edmunds had the 0-60 time as 4.5 seconds. Give me a
break. When I ran this time, we use a laser timing device, every millisecond,
it sends a beam to the back of the car and recieves the beam back and the
differrential between one pulse to the next determines speed. Assuming that the
Z06 is about 170 feet from the timing device when it hits 60, that's probably a
little high, and given that the speed of light is aapproximately 983,500,000
feet per second, the time that a pulse would take to travel from the device to
the car and back would be 0.00000035 seconds, give or take a few hundred
millionths. That means, that the maximum that my measurement could be off is
twice that, or 0.00000070 seconds. I think my measurement is better. Plenty of
factors can affect 0-60 times, my tires were warmed up, but I did not burn out
to improve the time. It was unccharacteristically cold on that day, about 40
degrees in October. Simple fact is, until you come with something better than
that, quoting magazines ain't going to cut it.
It is very hard to proove that you actually tested that car's acceleration and
get that 3.4 seconds. Magazines, however are pretty credible lap time and
performance data source.
Lots of cars can reach 60 mph faster than it's written in official
specifications. Still it's better to stick with official performance data.
nickpicking a little bit too...
at the high speed test 2006 the Z06 reached only 315km/h = 197mph and the Z06
was 1.1s slower at 300km/h as the 997 Turbo :-p
