Corvette vs. Lamborghini

[Mikers]

@jhb8426

Grandpa seems to have more money than common sense.

Well, he did buy a Maserati, :D.

[jhb8426 (Resident Curmudgeon)]

I guess he coulda bought a vette…

[Yoyo]

@Mikers

All under $200k and consistently getting walked by 4-cylinders.
You’re a fool if you consider an R8 track worthy and a Lamborghini not.

You’re gonna bring VW into a thread which is apparently about over-priced cars? Lets talk Veyron, then.  Got a spare million laying around?

Fact is, all those luxury cars are slower off the assembly line than something that is actually built as a race car(unless we are talking Veyron in a straight line), as opposed to a luxury touring car. Are the GT3s and stuff nice? Sure. “Track car”? Well… people take them onto tracks. To get beat by Subaru’s and Evos… I wouldn’t doubt there are Integras out there beating up on Porsche’s.

http://fastestlaps.com/tracks/nordschleife.html

Look at the 911’s times. I only mentioned the R8 and Cayman because they have a good performance to cost ratio.

[Mikers]

You think the R8 has a good performance to cost ratio? Moron.
Stock cars, Subaru is faster around the Nūrburgring than the Porsche Panamera Turbo, and about $100,000 less.
http://m.automobilemag.com/features/news/lap-of-hell-2011-subaru-impreza-wrx-sti-laps-nordschleife-in-755-3533/

You wanna spend over a hundred thousand dollars on a “track car”? Build one, idiot. If you’re so concerned about cost v. performance, you shouldn’t even want to speak the names of those companies. Funny you think Lamborghini is just a name for people to brag about and Porsche isn’t… BTW.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PhiP2kQjWNQ
This “only” 450WHP Impreza would slaughter anything previously mentioned in this thread, And the performance is obtainable, plenty of helpful people out there with the knowledge to do this stuff. And I bet it would come out well under $150k.

[Yoyo]

The Panamera is a luxury sedan, that’s like saying Mercedes makes bad SUVs because the C class can’t rock crawl.

The R8 is relatively cheap and can go fast, not sure what you expect.

I haven’t heard of the Lamborghini Impreza.

[Mikers]

Panamera Turbo is a 4.8l twin turbo 500+ HP V8 with AWD. Obviously not a sports car… since it has a full interior. :

The Impreza was brought up because you seem to be overly caught up in the ‘value’ of 150k+ cars as designated track vehicles. When they clearly are not a ‘value’ option for motorsports.

[Yoyo]

@Mikers

Panamera Turbo is a 4.8l twin turbo 500+ HP V8 with AWD. Obviously not a sports car… since it has a full interior. :

The Impreza was brought up because you seem to be overly caught up in the ‘value’ of 150k+ cars as designated track vehicles. When they clearly are not a ‘value’ option for motorsports.

The Panamera is definitely not a sports car.

I’m caught up on price because your argument earlier was “Aventadors are expensive so they must be total beasts!”. Corvettes aren’t $150k either.

Note: I don’t even like Corvettes, Vipers are my favorite, and they only cost around 80k.

[PlasticWhip (WildCat23)]

For the haters:

[Crowhatch]

I guess I’ll weigh in here with a few facts.

Some of the fastest street built cars in the worlds are lambos. For those of you that are curious look up UGR and their Gallardo’s. An Aventador has nothing on those machines.

As for Corvettes, they have a much richer motorsports background with their c5 c6 and c7.R cars competing in the TUDOR Series and the American Le Mans series.

As far as horsepower per dollar goes, nothing beats the Corvette. The gen 3,4 and the new gen 5 Chev small blocks are easy to make tons of power out of. Not to mention driveability, Fuel economy and the chassis that comes along with the modern Vettes. If you could spend 55 to 60k on a car with 450hp that gets you 29mpg highway with a chassis as sophisticated as it is, I consider them a bargain.