+Jake Barbaro lol it only did the 1/4 mile so it really didnt need to work for long ;)

+iBoostHD They smell of canoes, and communism.

***** For about three hours... until they break down...

***** comparing reliability of a newer car to an older car that fair...

***** A car from 1988 with only 10k miles uh oh...

Genes Corvettes are the best car in the world plus the new one that's coming out in 2018 has 800 HP

That’s still unattainable for many youth consumers

@SP You get an LS, if you have an LS you win the end.

I’d get a vette, but I am still not old enough

YES! I'll be getting mine very soon, hopefully.

jo23bulls And around a track was slower than 4 door saloon car with less power

jo23bulls Which was in the wet, therefore it didn't beat it.

jo23bulls lol that was in the wet and if the track is wet the stig says a car will be 4s slower.If it's very wet then 6s.

+jo23bulls its not a gt3 though, is it?

thats not a gt3?

I'm here, looking at an 07 corvette and trying to find out all I can about them

how big of a difference is the C8 now from this?

I'm here from 2029 and can tell you, between the C6 and the C8... both chassis flex like a cheap disposable plate, both have rubber bits that deteriorate like a vampire at the hint of sunlight, and both have interiors that wad themselves up like shrinky dinks in the heat. Not to mention they both squeak and rattle like an old haunted house.

@@tim7527 I own a 2008 base coupe M6 F55 and still love it.

Man I've never been into corvettes, thought the c6 looks cheap and tacky. But the c7 improved it heaps, first corvette that I could like. And now with the c8 mid engine... jesus it looks incredible. Interior quality and design in the c8 looks ages ahead of the c6.

Nobody buys a corvette for fuel efficiency though. 😂 Wow, 12 yrs ago. Wonder you still use this account?

@@GuninGames yeah but In america vettes are much easier to find then an nsx. Like I love my Japanese cars but it’s tough to buy one when where I live (the south) a mustang and Miata are similarly priced.

@@GuninGames and overpriced you are giving your money to these speculating assholes who deserver the rope

@@GuninGames Liking specific car just because someone said so isn't exactly something I'd call "wising up"

@@GuninGames who the fuck is going shell out $100k for a car from the 90's? the nsx exhaust sounds amazing and would be an awesome platform if it was more accessible, but its more of a collectors car so there's no comparison.

Yup. Fangio said "neat and tidy is always quicker". These guys are anything but "neat and tidy", rear end hanging out, smoking tires, flailing away at the wheel, etc.

@@markko17 it’s called “entertainment” if you’ve ever heard of it idk it’s the kind of thing that happens on television

@@trashcontent6503 Nobody cares dude.... they are REVIEWING cars and their findings are presented as 'truth' Of course it's fun to see a car going sideways with smoking tyres in a dramatic fashion, I love that. However it is not right to present it as 'proper handling' .

@@Firemarioflower “dude” it’s literally a television show meant for entertainment the whole point is to entertain people you sound like the type of guy that takes shit too seriously Fr don’t take what I said as hard as your mom takes it in the ass

@deathbastardable That's what the Stig is for, the trio are not racing drivers, they're patrol heads showing how they know a car is fun.

That was a corvette ZR1

@@zodiacforest3004 interior doesnt change.

@@alig.20 Yes it did, but not by that much. However, the rest of the car cannot be compared to the 2005 base model.... it's so much better in every single way.

@@Firemarioflower The main thing they hated was the cars interior, and some badged and sewed logos do not change anything. Im a Corvette enthusiast, this does not justify Jezzas idea being changed.

About 60 yrs after everybody else got independent coil spring suspension.

SvenTviking Why didn’t everybody else figure out magnetic ride in those 60 years? America was behind...but now they really have left ahead in performance for the money.

SvenTviking Just out of curiosity, what’s your cars finest currently produced sports car?

@@markevans658 If you meant "your country's finest produced sports car", in 2020 America will have the C8 Corvette and the Tesla Roadster 2.0, freaking behemoths for the price, the C8 Corvette will have under 3 secs 0-60 for $60K and the Tesla Roadster under 2 secs 0-60, 600 mile range and 250+ mile top speed for $200K

Summ1t I know what my country (America) has. I’m wondering what Sven’s country has. Based on the name I’m guessing not much.

10 years later, me, a 22 year old is buying one for 20k 😂 definitely an amazing bargain

@@anthonykf99 me, 18. Got one for 21k

@@MrZKZfaq congrats bro!

More like sub 4

Thanks bother this comment helped me decide to buy one slightly before the pandemic!

Right, I mean seriously do they think its the same tech as a truck!?

That's why leaf springs have caught on?

It has a lot more in common with F1 flexure suspension spring systems then leaf springs. Ignorant show for ignorant people... yet very entertaining. Engineers will just scoff at the ridiculous judgement from self proclaimed "experts".

@@taunokekkonen5733 The reason why leaf springs never caught on is because they're a design and tuning nightmare. Once you get them designed to where they work very well on your car, its great, and you can just keep using them on the future models, as long as the platform doesn't change, or the weight of the car doesn't drastically change. All the advantages mentioned above are unique to the corvette and what makes it easy for the engineers for that car to make it so low and light. The car doesn't have big shock towers like every other car, which is lighter and reduces parts in the frame and makes its construction less complicated. The corvettes frame, especially the c7, is very elegant. The reason why leaf springs are a design and tuning nightmare is because of the way they function. A conventional coil spring has a stiffness dictated by the material and thickness of the wire used to make the coils. It has a pretty linear stiffness throughout the deflection of the spring - that is to say, as the spring is compressed, you won't really see much of a change in stiffness. This is nice when trying to tune the ride rates/wheel rates, stiffness front to back and so on of your car. A lot of different coil springs exist, with different rates, that are easy to change out, and they all will have predictable stiffness throughout the springs travel. A leaf spring, in this case, a transverse spring being a slab of material laying across from one lower wishbone to another, is basically a custom piece to try to mimic what the coil springs do. This is fine, as all materials have stiffnesses or spring rates, except generally if you take a slab of material and bend it, as it deforms, the spring rate can change, which could make for some interesting driving dynamics. Now of course, generally if you stay in the elastic region of deformation, the rate/stiffness should stay pretty linear, and so you can expect a pretty linear increase in stiffness as the spring deforms, but it won't act exactly like how a coil spring will in how predictable it is. This is why a lot of care has to be taken in design the shape an cross section of the leaf spring to make sure it does act like a coil spring would. That is why if you look at a corvettes leaf springs, they get thinner and thicker and wider and more slender as you go from one side to the other, and coming up with that shape to get it to do what you want is not a strait forward task. Then when GM goes out to test the prototype cars, they might want to test a few different rates. Changing the leaf springs on that car means dropping the subframes and the rest of the suspension with it which is a pain, and your changing one custom spring for another, so you have to be sure that one of them is going to work. Its a nightmare, which is why it never caught on. I would not want to design them for a new car I was building. But once you have them, just keep using them as its a great setup.

@@samschegan1376 Thanks to modern computers however, you can do 90% of the design of the spring before you even need to test it on a car or even manufacture a spring. I am sure GM did that already with the C6 and even the C5. The reason why it still doesnt catch on is the same however: money. How many suppliers are out there that produce a carbon fiber leaf spring? I bet you can count them with one hand. A traditional coil spring is FAR cheaper and modern car manufacturers like to cheap out on the most rediculous parts (Mercedes using non-oil-resistant rubber seals in their dry sumps, which lead to catastrophic engine failures in their AMG engines).

MOST UNORTHODOX!!!!!!!

Yeah, but if you just cared about performance wouldn't an Ariel Atom or a Caterham be even better? And before you say you can't use a track-day car every day, I'd say you can't use the Vette every day either. It's just not very enjoyable to drive when you're not on a track. This is of course talking about the C6, the C7 is better built, but it's also more expensive. When you count in import tax it's almost as much as a mid-range F-type and the F-type is a much better car.

@frikgeek you can use a vette as an everyday car and alot of people dont actually care about the interior they want raw performance and as for that drag race it was either staged or at half throttle and leaf springs well they are much simpler and they have been reworked they are much better they are at the same time ainto roll bars and they can be fitted lower for better center of gravity you honestly dont know much about cars do you?

i would still take a c6 in any flavor over any c7 the c6's will be worth big money in 50 years, the c7's won't be

micheal bithi yeah I could give two shits about the interior materials

I think the Corvette had a terrible launch. It only weighs 200 pounds more than the NSX and has extra 110hp so something isn't right.

@@davewilson2559 Agreed. It probably should've come second. It wouldn't touch the TVR but realistically it should monster the 911 and the NSX.

Why is tvr so fast

@@mishanya9495 Very light and makes good power

​@@davewilson2559 I thought the same thing

Only a N63 or an improperly serviced one could need a rebuild

Andrew W.C. Brits typically push sheep from the rear?

Random41 “as long as you drop them off at the dealership every month and spend 3,000 dollars on it, it’s totally reliable!”

@@ImInLoveWithBulla if you work as a taxi, then yeah, otherwise no

@@ImInLoveWithBulla in my experience problems start when owner's don't understand the term "periodic service" or the sentence: "you should change ____, this one is going to fail soon". Then they get pissed that it's a scam and that the part's alright, and later get towed because that part failed and the engine broke. And last time I checked usual maintenance bill for 2 year/50k km (or 60k kms, depends on the car) was around 300 to 500 euro.

Yup! Not biased at all....

Who said it was supposed to be unbiased?

They are haters.

You do realise that Richard Hammond loves American cars

mclste But a C6 doesn't lose to an NSX. The NSX is a mid-13s car and the C6 is a Mid-high 12s car.

And they're composite leaf springs, so they'll never rust, and they weigh nothing. It's actually a really innovative idea for a car that you're selling for $44,000. Every other company sold competing sports cars for $60,000 t $100,000, even in 2005 money.

Ferraris anyways suck,unreliable not too thrilling as Merican and English cars! Corvette and vantages for life 🤘🏿

@@Countrysideboy247 😂

They build Leave Springs in their Cars, not because they are stupid. They build it for a very good Reason. Elektro Magnetic Ride Hide for Ferrari xD How long will they life ?? What do yo do when it dont work anymore? Where do you go? What when you drive the Car at the Limit, and the System failure ?? Like Berger in Estoril 1993.

@BEST The advent of the Wheel pre dates leaf springs. So why negate a feature for sake of the period or function when it does the job?

A school chum of mine, he with a TVR me with a C6, have this debate every time we meet to drink ale.

Said no one ever? I would, I'd definitely love to have TVR, especially the Sagaris.

I'd take most any other sports car over a vette.

I would and I'm American...

I definitely would. At least it has personality.

I was just about to put that comment.

Yeah, he launch or shift the Corvette properly...

He also almost lost in veyron against a mclaren f1. Don't get me wrong the f1 is one of my favorite cars but, that should've have happened.

Mid engine means you launch way better.

@@defyyourlogic487 that's not entirely true. The Mclaren F1 was very fast and a decent weight, while the Veyron was very powerful but much heavier.

My thoughts exactly ... putting a 3l engine against a 6l engine is somewhat ... unfair.

What’s the song?

@@yesterday._ the strokes - reptila

@@carlosguzman17 thank you

What has this to do with the road car?

The lemans car has nothing to do with the road car

Are the le mans cars offroad cars or what? they share the basics together and that makes sport and comfort.

@@aminensr4166 Google corvette Le Mans wins. Then come back and edit your comment with a correction

@@austingriff5905 googled list of le mans 24h winners and didn't see any American thing 🤔

And that’s the reason why they don’t like Americans lol

Americans can give it but not take it

or maybe because there werent enough of those jokes

Difference between funny joke, and unfair biased commentary.

exactly. The 2005 corvette did 0-60 in the low 4's with a good driver. Greatest thing about a corvette, you can spend a total of $3000 on 3.90 rear gears, an upgraded cam and tuning, and slightly stickier tires, and you'll be reliably putting down 450 horsepower to the road and do 0-60 in the 3.7 range.

Awd

In what world is a 1st gen. NSX awd? Not this one.

Easier to launch, lighter, better gearing, all keep the NSX ahead. Sum total of parts. Its not just down to power. That was why the NSX did so well. Good driver behind the wheel of the vette may be able to do better but the vette truly is a car that demands a better class of driver

High five second 0-60 times with the stick. Six seconds with the detuned automatic NSX.

Says it all right there.

never change clarkson, never change

Whos colonies?? 😆

lol

Congrats bro! I got a black supercharged C6 and I’ve loved every second of that bad boy 😈

Probably has the strength of a hamster

The car is 17 years old, genius.

YEAH!!! It's the perfect and most recognizable Corvette along with the C5, as well as the most affordable version when it was new. I dislike the C8 and it was a shame how everything became a bit square with the C7, allthough I like that gen too.

Yea it's top gear it's more of a comedy show you're not supposed to take it seriously

The model T had transverse leaf springs as did most early horseless carriages

@@sutherlandA1 So? The ancient Babylonians used wheels. Sabers existed in the 1400s, and were used heavily well into the 1800s. Was the saber out of date simply because it was 400 years old? Just because it's older tech doesn't mean its bad. The transverse leaf spring is extremely reliable and very affordable while still offering good performance. If the corvette had a multilink in the rear and would cost and extra $2,000, everyone would complain.

Top Gear/Grand Tour can be summed up as "Ignorant at best and Offensive at Worst." They are not an actual car program. They just make comedy and entertainment using cars as a background.

But they own us. Why are we criticizing them? Are this our last words? They will send the secret agents?

@@Felipe_ID wat

@@Felipe_ID They don't...own us

by now you should know that top gear mocks every country, including britain

[laughs in gun toting Colonist]

they did

edward carballo the tvr&nsx are really lightweight, the NSX was aimed to be lightweight, and the TVR is just a chassis, a body, big engine and a load of glue

Learn about the other cars and what they are capable of, Americans aren’t good at everything

mclste you are clueless

@@ducksouponline7420 The NSX is not a fast car the corvette c6 base witch this car was is faster 0-60 then a Lamborghini Gallardo Spider of this generation

@@stanleysimmonsreactions9056 that is false

pontiacGXPfan they make overpriced unreliable trash. They follow the commercials with that fancy British accent but they’re not fooling me

ethan s at least these so called unreliable cars can go round corners

Foreign cars are expensive in America because of the tariffs and taxes designed to try protect the big 3 from imports

It was a beast then

i'll be sure to burn some rubber in my Corvette for you, my French bruder!

They lapped it a few years later and it went 1:22,4

If it's as cheaply made as every other generation it'll blow by everything but the service department.

neoblackcyptron Valkyrie disagrees

@@AdamSmith-vb7ss Who or what is valkyrie? Is that a new British car?

neoblackcyptron the Aston Martin Valkyrie. Designed by legendary F1 aerodynamicist Adrian newey. Naturally aspirated 6.0 V12 putting out 1160hp revving to 11,500. 1 to 1 power to weight ratio. Significantly more downforce than weight. The most radical and likely fastest road car ever made.

@@AdamSmith-vb7ss You're comparing a 60k car to a $3 million one

This video is from 2009..... And was recorded before the 2008 LS3 C6 debuted.. So at the time it was recorded, "This was our greatest offering."

Viper?

@@allis-chalmersb-10 viper had 100 more HP for 05

The OEM runflats the car came with were brutal.

@@PURENT I’ve only had Michelins, I never experienced the owm tire

***** ?

***** I don't play racing games. I use the assetto corsa simulator.

***** It's VERY realistic, so it not be your cup of tea. also, it's in a per-release stage, so only 20 tacks and about 25 cars.

***** Well then Assetto Corsa is the shit 4 you.

***** Agreed! The LS 3 is way better then the LS 2.

exactly

Paul Williams right on bro

Vetteman Vettious your right about that but the C7s interior is outstanding and fast and light,loud and awesome looking :)

I love the C7 interior, but still prefer the exterior lines of the C6, especially a vert with the top down. The rear is near perfect.

that's the point, they are especially terrible on a track ... thanks to the ancient technology and general cheapishness.

Just like Chrysler from 1974-1982 and 2006 to pretty much present... or GM from 1974 to 2009... or Ford from 1974 to about 2003.

@@Bartonovich52 still more realiable than a British car

Bartonovich52 fairly accurate timeline actually

@@Bartonovich52 Ford GT

Zack May the crappy cars from that era were new and usually cheap because they rushed to get them to market there were still plenty quality cars from that era ( I’m not sure if they were as good as American cars in their prime)

Viper only had a 25 year lifespan, the corvette only ever paused production for 2 years

What about the Ford GT

Tvr? What! I would compare build quality against any year corvette interior exterior engine transmission anything aaannnyyy part. Lets do this for their next test run the tvr and vette on the track until one dies. Guaranteed you will not see a tvr out run a vette at any speed.

+Tim Beck That's totally The Strokes. Love it.

Shhhh. Don't remind them how bad they got spanked the GT, they might cry.

CurrencyENT yea the gt was the fastest track car for like 7 years after it came out in like 2005

Colds Was killing it back in the 60's too.

they are talking about sports cars not supercars. Different category man. Koniegsegg, Ferrari, Lamborghini, etc.. thats the GT's class. And it does pretty well against its European rivals !

udbhav agarwal No. This is the GT's class.

Why not

05 was the worst model 😬 there were a lot of issues with the transmission and motor less reliable. They got it right after the 07 model 08-13 is really solid.