[Bhobbs]

Originally Posted by rocket403

Not sure about these comments but thought I would post them, they were posted on the Video on youtube

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The new Z seems to hit a wall at 130mph and accelerates far slower than a car that powerful should. At first, I though it was because of aero drag; the Zs in the RA videos all had Stage 3 aero. But this is Stage 1, it looks like, and the problem is still there. In the driver's words over on the Corvette Forum, the Z "falls on its face" after 130, and it also overheated several times just doing these brief pulls, in the middle of Winter. Not good. Not good at all. Summer is going to be brutal on these cars.

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I know the Z06 is designed as a track weapon, not a drag racer, but this is just sad, with the car overheating and possibly sabotaging itself by pulling timing. If it can't even handle a few highway pulls in freakin' December, what's gonna happen on a road course? I'm seeing it now, Motor Trend's next Best Driver's Car competition, Laguna Seca in the middle of California Summer...The car that was one of the early favorites to take the whole thing, the C7 Z06, taken out of the running entirely because it can't even complete a single lap without going into "limp mode" and cutting power.

When Randy Pobst drove the car at Road Atlanta, the first lap he ran was the fastest. Each lap after the first was slower and by lap five, the car completely overheated and he had to shut it off.

Here's a link to the discussion and video talking about the test.

http://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/...shut-down.html