[Cmicasa the Great XvX]

Reason #1 why I see the 911Turbo as the only German car I would ever truly consider. I have raced the old model in my Z51... and won after an embarrasing bad shift loss the first time.. but this new one takes it to the KING VETTE and beats it in the DRAG... but loses to it on the track... Talk about REVERSE OF FORTUNES. Usually it was the other way around... but the Porsche manages a great deal of it's awesomeness from that "4 on the floor" attribute. GRIP, people.. I SAY GRIP. While the Vette is trying to get traction for that couple tenths of a second.. the 911 is already on the move.

Anyone notice the Vette's lateral Gs?? What about that Road Course, where it simply murders the 911.


and the 1 mile run is hilarious :

As we expected and you imagined, the Corvette ZR1 did phenomenally in the mile, hitting 177 mph. That's extremely fast, though only 3 mph faster than a Corvette Z06 we tested in 2006. Still, faster is faster. We actually got the plastic fantastic up to 190 mph before running out of runway. That latter figure is only 5 percent off the ZR1's top speed of 200.4 mph. The Corvette then did 0-150-0 in 25.6 seconds. Sounds good to us, but what do you compare that number against? For the sake of silly, the brand-new, 1200-horse Bugatti Veyron Super Sport takes 25.6 seconds to go 0-200-0. So, there's that.

GOOD LORDY.. I wanna drive this car again

What about the Porsche? Well, it broke. The twin variable-vane turbos stopped spooling and the boost went bye-bye as we were warming the car up for its runs. Why? As of this writing, we don't know. Porsche speculates that a hose buried deeply within the nearly inaccessible engine bay "popped off." Maybe, but not a single warning light flashed, yet the boost gauge indicated zero. All we know is the 3.8-liter flat-six reverted back to natural aspiration and the Turbo couldn't participate in our big boy tests. Bummer.

and as much as I love it.. U gotta love that perfect German engineering more... .. "It BROKE"