Car and Driver shoot out.

[Jamestwilliams]

I just read the Car and Driver Track meet article.

I was interested by a couple of developments in this article. One of the things that suprised me was how poorly the SRT8 challenger faired. I don't think it will be much of a challenge for the Camaro stock vs. stock. They raced all the cars at Virginia International Raceway and the Cobalt beet the Challenger by posting a 3:13 lap while the Challenger only managed 3:16.3. Also of not the Z51 optioned Corvette lapped at 3:01.2 vs 2:55.6 for the GT-R, it would be interesting to see how a Z06 would have done, I think it may have been able to beet the GT-R this definitely gives more credence to Porches claim that nissan cheated as the GT-R was beat bad by the ACR Viper with a time 2:48.6 seconds it was also beat by the 430 Scuderia by 1s. The ZR-1 Corvette should be able to stand up to the ACR Viper. Another note of interest the CTS-V finished just 2.8s behind the Corvette, not bad for a 4269lb sedan, proving GM has the ability to produce cars that act like they have far less weight than they do.

[MCPOAJ]

Originally Posted by Jamestwilliams

I just read the Car and Driver Track meet article.

I was interested by a couple of developments in this article. One of the things that suprised me was how poorly the SRT8 challenger faired. I don't think it will be much of a challenge for the Camaro stock vs. stock. They raced all the cars at Virginia International Raceway and the Cobalt beet the Challenger by posting a 3:13 lap while the Challenger only managed 3:16.3. Also of not the Z51 optioned Corvette lapped at 3:01.2 vs 2:55.6 for the GT-R, it would be interesting to see how a Z06 would have done, I think it may have been able to beet the GT-R this definitely gives more credence to Porches claim that nissan cheated as the GT-R was beat bad by the ACR Viper with a time 2:48.6 seconds it was also beat by the 430 Scuderia by 1s. The ZR-1 Corvette should be able to stand up to the ACR Viper. Another note of interest the CTS-V finished just 2.8s behind the Corvette, not bad for a 4269lb sedan, proving GM has the ability to produce cars that act like they have far less weight than they do.

wait so wat you're saying is the cobalt isn't far behind the gtr or vette?? wth?? i thought you guys said cobalts suck??

[Jamestwilliams]

Originally Posted by MCPOAJ

wait so wat you're saying is the cobalt isn't far behind the gtr or vette?? wth?? i thought you guys said cobalts suck??

I haven't seen many on here say the Cobalt sucks, but in the Nurbergring trials the Camaro beat the Cobalt SS by 2-3s. Just thought it's interesting that the SRT8 was so badly beaten by the cobalt on such a comparitively short course.

[DGthe3]

Originally Posted by MCPOAJ

wait so wat you're saying is the cobalt isn't far behind the gtr or vette?? wth?? i thought you guys said cobalts suck??

not too many say bad things about the cobalt SS tc.

[flaguy]

Originally Posted by DGthe3

not too many say bad things about the cobalt SS tc.

Which amazes me considering when I used to have an SRT-4, it constantly got ragged on but is faster in stock form than the Cobalt SS turbo is today. Although, I would imagine that the Cobalt has the edge in handling.

The Cobalt SS turbo is a badass little car, it always baffled me why they originally used a supercharger over a turbo.

[kevin2323]

it baffles me how nice the solstice coupe is lookin right now...