[quote=Coronita]Anyone interested in a Bubblebee colored Corvette C7 Z06 600+hp, for under $60 grand….
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I’ve always liked a yellow/black combo on a car. Except this hue of yellow kinda yells “Hertz!!!” I don’t know, maybe that’s only if you know it’s from Hertz.
The question isn’t “how much has this car been driven hard?” Obviously it’s been driven hard most of the time. Who pays all that money to rent a car with 650hp and doesn’t spend half his time with the pedal to the metal? I mean, I drive my muscle car hard a lot. But most of the time not. It’s not a new experience anymore, but mostly I know it’ll be there when I want it. Plus it’s my car. These ‘Vettes are driven by people who probably have never before and will never again get a chance to drive a 10-second car. And who have no interest in the longevity of the motor. They’re no doubt hammering the shit out of it most of the time. I know I would be.
The question is, “how much of a problem is all this hard driving going to cause?” I guess advances in metallurgy and whatnot have made high-performance engines more reliable and durable. But buying a very high performance car that’s got 20k+ miles on it, a huge percentage of which is at full throttle, seems like it might be testing the limits of those advances.
On the other hand, I haven’t heard of any modern high-performance cars engines failing (internally) just from driving. Even persistent hard driving. Back when I was a kid, anybody who had really built motors (say, 500hp or more, which back then was a really big deal) had to deal with them blowing all the time.
Flu (or any other car buffs), I’m curious about this, and I wonder what you’ve heard about the durability of these modern high-performance engines, especially ones that are constantly driven hard.
