Chevrolet Product Specialist, Shad Balch, stops by the garage with the new 2015 Corvette Z06 to help Jay kick off the new year with this highly anticipated road test.
Archive for the ‘Sports Car’ Category
On this episode of Head 2 Head, Carlos Lago hosts a face-off between the Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 and Porsche 911 GT3. Both cars are bred for track performance and driver’s satisfaction, each packing high-revving, dry-sump engines, carbon ceramic brakes, and big wings. The huge price disparity makes this an odd pairing, but after considering each car’s hardcore focus on performance, we couldn’t resist the idea of getting them together. The Camaro makes more power, but the Porsche’s lighter. Which one’s faster?
Lap times, heavy crashes, extreme riding on ice, awesome images, here is the final result of our match between a Porsche GT3RS (450 HP) and a Yamaha 1000 R1 (180 HP) on the replica (scale one) of the legendary 5.8 km Paul Ricard Track in Lapland by minus 25 degrees To win, the Porsche had 4 wheels, 450 horsepower and 2320 spikes. The R1 was counting on its lightness, its sharpest, 470 spikes and the “balls” of Serge Nuques to lean it to the maximum angle. The other equally tight match was between a Mitsubishi Evo 9 against a Yamaha 450 WRF
We were lucky enough to get invited to spend four days in and around Las Vegas with members of the home for all things Ford GT, the Ford GT Forum fordgtforum.com/homepage/, and some 80+ Ford GTs. From deserts to racetracks to highways to byways, up the strip,, down the strip, into parking garages, through forests, over the Hoover dam, and down canyons to the parking lot at Shelby American . Enjoy!