my friend is thinking about getting one.

he would be getting the auto.

anything to watch out for

10/26/2009 3:16:45 PM

the vagina sprouting betwixed his legs?

10/26/2009 3:42:18 PM

^

10/26/2009 4:02:50 PM

haha shit

built auto, ftw.

10/26/2009 4:24:33 PM

^exactly.

not my car. i would get manual. but a built auto is the shit.

[Edited on October 26, 2009 at 4:51 PM. Reason : .]

10/26/2009 4:51:08 PM

who gives a shit about quarter mile. built or not built, auto vettes should be banned.

10/26/2009 5:41:47 PM

^

10/26/2009 8:15:12 PM

ahem*BBR*cough

10/26/2009 8:49:15 PM

BBR's vette is on my envy list. shit is nasty

10/26/2009 9:06:24 PM

you bitchez just don't know

10/26/2009 10:14:11 PM

tell him to fucking grow a pair...

10/26/2009 11:15:02 PM

With the auto option in the past, Before the latest 6spd, getting the auto really neutered the corvette's greatest attribute, the flexibility of a chevy ls motor in the lightest chassis. The 6spd manual c5s were able to pull off harder acceleration more often and could get amazing mileage when cruising. I don't remember at what point semiauto gear selection became available with the old auto, if ever, but not being able to floor it in 3rd or fourth coming out of a slow turn or to whip around an idiot practically coming to a dead stop is a major part of missing the greatest use of a vette. Waiting for a downshift with an auto should NOT be expeced with a 6L v8. Now I haven't yet driven a 6spd auto in the new car, so maybe it closes the gap on the manual in a way that the 4 spd without Manu-magic functionality couldn't. There are some slick autos out there, but I doubt the 6 spd is anywhere near the Aston, lex isf, zf 6spd in the bimmers, or the gear-simulating cvts like the one in the maxima. So, having said that..,, tell your friend that he'd get used to a stick in a vette. It is sooo worth it to have direct access to that motor's twistng force without the vagueness of a torque converter.

10/27/2009 2:49:17 AM

^ yeah, the biggest problem with an automatic is the torque converter. As long as that is retained (i.e., it isn't an automated manual), it's going to suck.

Unless you are buying it to be a dedicated drag racer (in which case I'd save my money and get a C5), getting a 'Vette with an automatic is retarded.

10/27/2009 3:37:22 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipC8Ire-cNg

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10/27/2009 10:23:13 PM

haha

[/bank account], too

10/27/2009 10:27:12 PM

Damn. $25k transmission... That's $Alaska

10/27/2009 11:09:46 PM

Great vehicles, I own one. He'd really be robbing himself if he got the auto. You really get your bang for your buck with the manual. He needs to be prepared for very expenive up keep, mainly tires. The set that goes on them run about 1100$

correction, if that's going to be his everyday car he only needs to worry about tires. Everything else about a vette is pretty much die hard.



[Edited on October 27, 2009 at 11:44 PM. Reason : /]

10/27/2009 11:42:28 PM

10/27/2009 11:44:31 PM

^? You disagree?

10/27/2009 11:45:29 PM

10/27/2009 11:50:29 PM

haha

[puts on helmet, shucks one in the chamber]

here we go

10/28/2009 8:27:44 AM

lock n load


bbr has more blown up vettes sittin around than most people will ever own

10/29/2009 7:22:45 AM

^

We need some carnage photos!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10/29/2009 10:33:48 AM

Quote :

"Everything else about a vette is pretty much die hard."

hahahahahaha

so that's why i trashed a clutch, slave cylinder, bearing in the rear end and a bearing in the torque all within a year?

don't even get me started on the piece of shit interior in all of them.

10/29/2009 10:45:51 AM

^schep...And how many miles were on the car when all those things happened? how many owners before you? How hard do you drive it? It's true that a vette isn't the most reliable car on the road, but given the remarkable specification per dollar compared to most any other production car, its economy of daily running and repair frequency and cost are even further miracles.

( I started to list other sports cars that I thought might approach a c6's performance, economy, practicality, at any cost, and it actually turned out to be a longer list than I thought, even though the vette still seems relatively top of the hill by reasonable opinion or on an absolute cost basis. We really are living in a golden age for all-rounder sports cars.)

10/29/2009 11:21:50 AM

hard to say since it had been converted to a manual.. body had over 100K when I bought it. 2 owners before me

i'm just arguing for the hell of it really trust me, i agree that they are usually solid cars and a hell of a lot more reliable/efficient than most people realize.. i just had a bad string of luck there for a while and had some weird things fail.

i didnt drive it that hard though.. virtually no hard launches and no time at the drag strip or anything like that.

[Edited on October 29, 2009 at 12:46 PM. Reason : not to mention it was a C5, not C6]

10/29/2009 12:41:07 PM

that $1200 set of tires is gonna hurt every 10 k miles

10/30/2009 1:03:24 PM

anybody spending 1200 on tires every 10K miles is doing it wrong

10/30/2009 2:01:51 PM

well, 10k on a set of tires is about right. you could burn through them faster than that if you did track days on them, etc. I've never have to buy a set of sports car tires THAT big, but putting tires on my Evo or old supercharged S2000 ran about $800, and that was going with Azenis or BFG KDWs. A 'Vette, running even larger tires, could easily be $1200 every 10k if you were running more expensive tires (PS2, etc).

10/30/2009 2:22:23 PM

that's a big if

i guess i'm just a cheap ass that bought new or lightly used tires off of eBay as needed, lol

10/30/2009 6:37:58 PM

hard to do when there are 4 different tires on the car, every one is position specific, there is no rotating, so the wear sucks, and you have a 1 in 4 chance of finding a used tire to fit the right position

10/30/2009 6:43:35 PM

not really.

10/30/2009 6:45:29 PM

ok, if you are a cheap nigger like yourself, i'm sure you can find some used tires to put on a fuckin vette every other month, but what is the fuckin point?

10/30/2009 7:07:18 PM

10/30/2009 7:09:56 PM

i can't believe i'm going to say it...

but i have 69's back on this one

10/30/2009 10:47:28 PM

Regular tires that are not summer/ultra high performance last a lot longer. The Corvette sizes are fairly common, and not really out of line with many other performance cars today. Also, position and rotation specific tires come on many cars, like any performance oriented BMW/Mercedes, Porsche, S2000, and so on. If you want a high performance car, you're going to have to pay for tires. Generally proportional to weight/hp. I had a student in a Dodge Challenger at New Jersey Motorsport Park a couple of months ago, he was asking me how he could've worn through his tires (understeering pig of a car) in just one day of driving, well 4300lbs, +over 400hp = a car that wil wear it's brakes and tires quickly. Fact of life.

10/30/2009 11:33:54 PM

Quote :

"Regular tires that are not summer/ultra high performance last a lot longer."

Sure, but why would you ever put them on a 'Vette?

Quote :

"If you want a high performance car, you're going to have to pay for tires."

Gotta pay to play--this is a universal truth, and the harder you play, the more the cost goes up.

10/31/2009 2:13:32 AM

I'd wager that the vast majority of Corvette owners would do just fine with their automatic convertibles on all season tires, including the guy that's going to be getting one referenced here...

10/31/2009 2:43:03 AM

Well, I guess that's true.

Of course, why in the hell someone like that gets a Corvette, I will never, ever understand.

10/31/2009 2:48:45 AM

some people are going to daily drive the vette.. no reason to waste expensive, high performance tires while going 65mph in a straight line. it's cheaper to have a set of tires that can handle the daily driving and not wear stupid fast and another for track events or whatever kind of destroying you want to do

10/31/2009 11:32:37 AM

By that logic, you should really have a separate car for the track, as you can make the same "why waste the good tires" argument about brakes, then there's stuff like seats/harnesses/safety stuff to worry about.

I think most people buy a Corvette because they either want the image, or just think Corvettes are cool. Sure that wastes a lot of the car's abilities but whatever, I bought my current M3 in large part because I like looking at it...

10/31/2009 3:14:48 PM

lets remember vettes come with runflats. hardly setting any benchmarks in the performance department (even though the c6's offering is a little better than what came on c5's). poor traction, poor treadlife, and they weigh a ton. even cheap all seasons easily match/best them.

furthermore, one of the strong points of a corvette is its dynamic handling. they don't heavily rely on a certain level of a wheel/tire package to perform, unlike other many other vehicles where the wheel/tire setup can make or break it. simply put, your average driver isn't going to have any really noticeable differences (besides cost and tread life of course) between a decent all season and a top of the line performance tire.

^^pshhh, gtfo of here with your sensible logic and reality and crap. don't you realize this is tww? we're all mother fuckin hardcore race car drivers and magazine test writers. shit like automatic sports cars, daily drivers, male miata owners, and roads without twisties don't exist in our world, son!

10/31/2009 11:26:49 PM

^

Funny post.... but an automatic sports car is pretty funny. An automatic drag car I can understand.

11/1/2009 10:03:11 AM

LOGIC

RAWR RAWR RAWR

11/1/2009 12:52:50 PM

vettes are awesome... if only they weren't vettes lol....

11/1/2009 3:40:07 PM

c6 is a stunning car, and worthy of the corvette pedigree

11/1/2009 8:14:37 PM

more like ol roy

11/2/2009 2:51:45 PM