(Disclaimer------- I am not a Chevy hater, in addition to my 03 Cobra, I owned a 01 Camaro SS and my wife has a 04 Pontiac GT0), and I originally sold my Cobra to buy a C6 until I got pissed off with all the constraints on the car, so I am totally unbiased)
I have been reading a lot of other car type forums and getting their response to the new Cobra, for the most part it is very good, they like the car. The vette people are funny though. Common responses, 'they need to put a blower on their to make power' ' its still a Ford' 'Its no Vett', 'poor mans ride' from from inbred idiots than drive around in 80's and early 90's vettes that retail at 8 grand on a good day.
Arguments that I am seeing pop up:
1)The argument that gets me the most from the Chevy guys is, 'take that blower off that car and it only make 300 hp'', lol, no shit, you see the compression its running compared to your LS2 and LS6's.
2)'It only puts out 450 hp' out of 5.4 supercharged engine, a LS2 would put out 600'., wow is all I can say.If they think that this car will not put out 500 crank easy on a severely detuned and corked up engine they are smoking even more crack. Didnt they see what the 03 Cobras did? Oh wait they still think they only run high 13's at the track and cant touch a C5.
3) 'That car will not hold a candle to the wind on a new C6 vette, let alone a Z06 in straight line or handling. I see the Z06 smoking the new Cobra stock( until the pulleys and tunes come in at least :coolman: ), but the standard C6, they are putting out slower times than the C5 vette did. Hell the stock 03 Cobra is faster straight line than the C6,lol. As far as handling, are they aware that the current platform won first and second place in GrandAM racing against the best of Germany and Japan? Ask them how they like those leaf springs in the back.
4) 'Only people that would buy that car are poor people that cant afford a vette'. Ya the estimated base of the 40k Cobra is so far off the 44k base price of a C6 vette :idea: . And to make a higher end car, Chevy will have to offer the Z06 at 60+k to outrun the GT500. I forgot only vette people have money. The GT500 is just as good looking, will have the same quality as Chevy (Ive been in the C6s alot as I was goign to buy one, and its not all that beleive me)
5) And to top it all, 'You should not compare the GT500 to the standard C6, compare it to the Z06 since its a special model and has a supercharger'. First we will have to note the 20-30k price difference form the GT500 and the CObra, and second, are we admitting that Cobra is better than the standard C6 vette. That statement has just proved what Ford/SVT had been planning all along, the Cobra to take out the vette, screw the GTO, they went straight to the the top and killed it. And the 190,000 GT and V6 mustangs that will be out on the road is only more proof that Ford must be doing it right.
...and the list goes on and on, there are some good people on those boards too, that have good inputs, but most of them are just idiots. Do you feel fear in the air?
I have been reading a lot of other car type forums and getting their response to the new Cobra, for the most part it is very good, they like the car. The vette people are funny though. Common responses, 'they need to put a blower on their to make power' ' its still a Ford' 'Its no Vett', 'poor mans ride' from from inbred idiots than drive around in 80's and early 90's vettes that retail at 8 grand on a good day.
Arguments that I am seeing pop up:
1)The argument that gets me the most from the Chevy guys is, 'take that blower off that car and it only make 300 hp'', lol, no shit, you see the compression its running compared to your LS2 and LS6's.
2)'It only puts out 450 hp' out of 5.4 supercharged engine, a LS2 would put out 600'., wow is all I can say.If they think that this car will not put out 500 crank easy on a severely detuned and corked up engine they are smoking even more crack. Didnt they see what the 03 Cobras did? Oh wait they still think they only run high 13's at the track and cant touch a C5.
3) 'That car will not hold a candle to the wind on a new C6 vette, let alone a Z06 in straight line or handling. I see the Z06 smoking the new Cobra stock( until the pulleys and tunes come in at least :coolman: ), but the standard C6, they are putting out slower times than the C5 vette did. Hell the stock 03 Cobra is faster straight line than the C6,lol. As far as handling, are they aware that the current platform won first and second place in GrandAM racing against the best of Germany and Japan? Ask them how they like those leaf springs in the back.
4) 'Only people that would buy that car are poor people that cant afford a vette'. Ya the estimated base of the 40k Cobra is so far off the 44k base price of a C6 vette :idea: . And to make a higher end car, Chevy will have to offer the Z06 at 60+k to outrun the GT500. I forgot only vette people have money. The GT500 is just as good looking, will have the same quality as Chevy (Ive been in the C6s alot as I was goign to buy one, and its not all that beleive me)
5) And to top it all, 'You should not compare the GT500 to the standard C6, compare it to the Z06 since its a special model and has a supercharger'. First we will have to note the 20-30k price difference form the GT500 and the CObra, and second, are we admitting that Cobra is better than the standard C6 vette. That statement has just proved what Ford/SVT had been planning all along, the Cobra to take out the vette, screw the GTO, they went straight to the the top and killed it. And the 190,000 GT and V6 mustangs that will be out on the road is only more proof that Ford must be doing it right.
...and the list goes on and on, there are some good people on those boards too, that have good inputs, but most of them are just idiots. Do you feel fear in the air?
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