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Michael Fennell (Mfennell70)
Junior Member Username: Mfennell70
Post Number: 74 Registered: 7-2001
| Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 2:49 pm: | |
"A superperformance or FF or any good cobra replica would show it a thing or two about performance." In what sense? 1/4 mile? Sure. Road course? I don't know. Apples-to-apples is difficult but a stock engined Factory Five Spec Cobra has about the same power to weight ratio as a C5 Corvette and a T1-prepared Corvette gets around Summit Point a full 3 seconds faster. A Z06 seems to be another second faster ("seems to be" because I have no idea of the qualifications of the drivers - I'm just looking at a results page from a NEDiv National this spring and a NASA race a few weeks ago). I love the things to death but most of them are about as sophisticated as a rock. In fact, that's probably *why* I like them so much. :-) Mike - FFR3793 in progress |
Tim N (Timn88)
Intermediate Member Username: Timn88
Post Number: 1652 Registered: 6-2001
| Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 1:32 pm: | |
Racer, without a doubt there are more 360's on the road. I dont think it could putperform all american cars. A superperformance or FF or any good cobra replica would show it a thing or two about performance. Now for comfort and driveability thats a different story. The C12 is heavy, weighing in at 3200+lbs. The saleen has to be less than that. The mosler MT900 photon (or whatever he calls the highest performing model) is also a force to be reckoned with. |
Racer 001 (Mr_0011)
Member Username: Mr_0011
Post Number: 350 Registered: 3-2002
| Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 1:22 pm: | |
Callaway cars are truly special. There are probably more 360's out there than C12s. I'd like to see them do a car like this with some major power. For under $100k you could get a 7.0L Twin Tubro package from Lingenfelter. MTI also has a 427... but I don't think it can be blown due to compression or something. Horsepower isn't everything, but for $80k a new SRT-10 Viper puts out more than this 1/4 million dollar car... With that said... the C12 is probably faster than all of the American exotics on the track, save maybe the Saleen S7... |
James Napolis (Napolis)
Junior Member Username: Napolis
Post Number: 94 Registered: 10-2002
| Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 12:21 pm: | |
Any co. that makes a street legal car that goes 255MPH can't be all bad... |
James Dixon (Omnadren250)
Member Username: Omnadren250
Post Number: 368 Registered: 7-2001
| Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 12:14 pm: | |
I can remember there was a Callaway vette from the early 90's that looked even more like a 360 than this new C12 model. You used to hear a lot about Callaway vettes back in those days, but then he seemed to just disapear towards the late 90's. I guess Lingenfelter gets all the media coverage these days. |
Ernesto (T88power)
Member Username: T88power
Post Number: 896 Registered: 2-2001
| Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 12:11 pm: | |
Quote from the article: "Enter the C12. Based on the C5 Corvette, Callaway�s flagship aims to achieve all that the company holds sacrosanct." But Tim is right, it was released before the 360. Saw it in a dealership in Manhattan, didn't really know what it was at first. BTW, those are Dodge Avenger tail light I think. Anyway, grossly overpriced. Ernesto |
Tim N (Timn88)
Intermediate Member Username: Timn88
Post Number: 1649 Registered: 6-2001
| Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 11:33 am: | |
I'm pretty sure this car came out before the 360. It also isnt really a vette. Its built from the ground up at callaway. There was an article about it in motor trend back in 99 i think. |
Matt Lemus (Mlemus)
Member Username: Mlemus
Post Number: 603 Registered: 8-2002
| Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 10:44 am: | |
At $247,150, you could get a 360 spyder. |
Mark (Study)
Member Username: Study
Post Number: 342 Registered: 10-2001
| Posted on Tuesday, November 19, 2002 - 10:41 am: | |
Look how easy it is to change the front hood and back trunk cover on a C5 Corvette to make it look like a 360. cover story www.autoweek.com http://www.autoweek.com/cat_content.mv?port_code=autoweek&cat_code=coverstory&loc_code=index&content_code=05056440 |