Let's take the Z06 out for a ride!!! Apologize for the lawnmower there but
everyone's out doing their own thing so let's get inside the vehicle
here we go we can start her up
so here we go let's go for our drive step into a honda civic or step into
something after you've driven your sports car
and you will quickly remember just how great your sports car is
now I can sure tell we're not in our Corvette anymore because if i give it
gas that's to the floor and we've barely
hit 60 kilometers per hour so we're definitely not in our corvette
anymore so if we look at the different generations of the car let's
go back in time a little bit maybe I'll throw up some special effects
C1 was a great car built on I believe it was a ladder frame
traditional engine transmission layout whole lot of fun
it was new for its time you know after after the war it was
one of the first really nice cars that sort of came out
now C2 on the other hand had a bunch of
refinements, the C2 was great it, it was the first one to have independent rear suspension
it also had disc brakes I think it might have even been the first coupe I'm
not sure two-door coupe, anyway that I'm not
too sure about maybe someone can correct me on that
C3, I owned a C3, a lot of fun traditional
engine transmission layout so that's okay
but a lot of refinements, the C4 was a lot different, they had the clamshell hood
I owned a c4 as well, mine had an LT4 engine!! Not the same LT4 as this C7 but
it had an LT4 engine and that was the Grand Sport engine so
it had a different camshaft, there's a couple of other little different
things that it had. The crank in it had filet journals and stuff like
that and we're not talking meats and food... It's just the way they
cut the crank so it's a little more a bit more durable
can handle some flex C5's were great you know C5 was a big big
leap forward because it had the transmission in the back so your
powertrain layout changed, C6 same thing they just refined it, and then
the C7 they keep refining it even further
Now there's all obviously little things there's
you know the pop-up headlights there's all those other little things that come
and traction control and abs and blah blah blah i can go on forever
but those are the biggest things that did sort of stick out in my mind
now one of the things that's really cool about
the C7 I think now it's one of the best bargains because i think
it's an undervalued car I think that with all the hype with
the C8 and dealers trying to get rid of rid of C7s if you want a newer C7 or
I don't even know if you can still get them brand new but if you wanted a new
one I think it's a good deal, it's a very
very good deal but if you're looking for a used one I
think even then it's a good deal now. C5's have already sort of found their price point
Same with C6's, C3's all those cars they're kind of all worth
what they're worth but C7's I think are a great deal now for
what you get I think they're an awesome car
and there's a lot of refinements in the powertrain, I mean direct inject engine
so you get a very broad torque curve, it's very efficient
it's just it's just a great motor
I love the 7 speed transmission, I find it shifts
really really well a lot of people say that they don't use seven
seventh gear because you gotta be going too fast because
it's just the way it's geared but if you live in a big city that has freeways or
anything like that or you ever take it onto the highway or you're gonna take it
to the beach you'll definitely use seventh gear and you'll get
some good fuel mileage with your seventh gear, but yeah in the city seventh
is is useless you can't really use it but it's still
it's it's a great transmission and I think it's a great car in general.
One of the big things for me is just this interior is
worthy of a performance car I mean this is a great
interior on this car I love the clear top, I got both tops
I find that I use a clear top all the time, I don't even use the body color top
anymore i just don't use it i find i just
absolutely love the clear top so that's that's really nice for me now the
other thing i wanted to mention is this is the front camera you can see there's
the front, there's the front of the car I'm just
going to turn this ac down here
there we go and that's a little whizzing you're going to hear there's the fan
but you can see as we move forward there's the lines in the concrete
so you're never going to hit your front splitter and then there's your....
put it reverse there's your rear camera that's pretty much it, I just wanted to
take this thing out on a drive to talk about it a little
bit that's my opinion on corvette now on the C7 in
particular one of the other things that's great is just this interior
cluster you have a total digital cluster with the exception of you do have analog
gauges on the on each side which which is really nice because i like
analog gauges gives it a little bit of a classic look
so I love the analog gauges so that's nice but i do like the customizable
center that I can do it's got the heads-up display
and it's just, it's just really really nice.
The seats are actually very comfortable, I've driven in C5's and C6's and seats
they're not so comfortable at least for
me anyway now one thing i did find was with my C4 I
found the seats were really really nice in it, it was a 1996
but i love that car it drove great, that was probably one of my favorite
vets I've owned believe it or not!!! So all you C4s out there
just to let you know Garageking likes C4's I really do, I think it's a
great car but that's it for now so so any questions comments anything
let me know, I just wanted to go out and just take a drive in the car with all
the Covid-19 going on and everything I just wasn't able to get out and
and drive it, and i'm focusing on this or that you know i just wanted to have a
fun video I could be myself chit chat to nobody
really I guess except you folks about cars. But that's it i'm pulling
back in the driveway so that's it for the end of the video
hopefully you've uh enjoyed the video I really
hope you have, hopefully you can give me a like or
at least a comment would be great, I'd appreciate
a sub even more, but i know those are hard to
get, so even just a comment just let me know what you thought
and let me know uh you know what you think of the video so anyway
that's it GarageKing over and out and I will see
you on the next one :)