Corvette Muscle Stronger Than Holden’s V8?
May 9, 2007 by Alborz Fallah
Currently if you want to buy a Corvette in Australia, you need to have roughly $250,000 to have the icon made to Right Hand Drive, but there are plans for the future versions of the Corvette to be made in RHD from factory.
For a car that can go from 0-100km/h in 3.7sec … in first gear, the need for a car such as this in Australia has never been more evident!
Owned by GM, Chevrolet’s main distributor in Australia in none other than GM Holden, the king of V8 muscle cars. However if Holden do end up selling the Corvette, it will sit nicely above anything that both Holden and HSV have to offer.
The 2008 will be powered by a more advanced and bigger small-block 6.2-litre V8 engine, which makes it sit about Holden’s 6-litre V8 found in the Commodore SS and Caprice range as well as HSV vehicles.
The Corvette engine, in standard tune will have a power output of roughly 321kW and 575Nm of torque, which compares with the untuned Holden’s V8 figures of 270kW and 530Nm. The best that HSV can currently do is 307kW of power and 550Nm of Torque in the HSV GTS.
Chevrolet will even offer an optional dual-mode exhaust system to help increase power to 325kW and put out an astonishing 580Nm of torque.
There are of course plans for an even bigger engine in the Z06/07 versions with a 7-litre V8 expected to produce 376kW of power and 637Nm of torque.
Chevrolet says the new six-speed paddle-shifted automatic Corvette is its fastest automatic yet, capable of hitting 100km/h in just 4.3sec, faster than your everyday Ferrari!
But don’t start saving yet, Holden has said “no further update” regarding whether or not Australia will have the corvette in showrooms. At the moment the only choice you have is getting the Corvette via these guys.
Spyshots of the Z07 appeared on the net in the last few days.
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its had the 7 litre LS7 in it with 370KW since 2005?
those desperate enough for a RHD corvette can get one converted at performax in gympie (formerely corvette queensland). amazing cars for the price
id love to see a ford GT downunder too!
I rode in a Corvette years ago and yes, it moved along, but what surprised me most was how comfortable the car was. I’m guessing the new model is just as comfortable but goes like stink too.
What price are they in the US? Better not tell me, I’ll cry! What we have to pay for decent autos in this country is a joke. The US folks have it made, even punters can afford a corvette!
Can someone tel me how much this Govt takes out of an imported car?
Jack Fast
Get the DVD by Jeremy Clarkson.The Good The Bad & The Ugly.
He does a test in USA in the Vet.Does come up well on the track but not on the road.
Not impressed,for a car at a super car price there is plenty more I would have.
super car price? theyre $70,000 USD ( about 84K AUD) dollars when the nearest competitor is a 911 turbo which is $330,000. Even though the porsche is the superior car when you look past the straight line performance and factor in handling and well, pretty much everything else, the corvette is an AMAZING car for the price.
although the leaf springs would seriously put me off. and theres something about it i dont know what it is that makes me think that past 150,000 KM mileage it would start to fall apart. looks very sexy, just not quality
Yer but $250..converted here
Apples with apples please Sam.
God here we go again.
Here are some figures in the UK,seeing you think I am real blonde!
Vauxhall VXR 6 litre {Monaro} 36,755 pounds
E46 M3 37,780 POUNDS
Turbo 911 108,000 POUNDS
VET C6 Convertable 56,000 pounds
So landed in Australia converted the Vet is bloody expensive. And has an interior that out of Woolies .
I know how things work in US dollars.
I thought Sam they stopped making GT 40 again if thats what your saying on the the GT FORD.
Much better car though,mainly because most of it is designed or manufactured in the UK or Europe.I think the US put it together in the end. Just like the American Anthem,also written by a Brittish. Not much the yanks make thats any good .Planes ???
They did discontinue the GT40 a fair while ago Lisa. They replaced it with the Ford GT which is what Sam was referring to. That’s a fairly common mistake which I once made a few years back myself. I remember a mistake some tosser made when he saw a GT40 poster of mine. He said, “Its only for looks”. I laughed in his face and responded with, “No, because they didn’t win Lemans with this car”. Should have seen the guys face, so pissed off.
Sorry Damo I didn’t know they only called it the Ford GT? I assumed I suppose it was still the GT40.
Any way they stopped making the Ford GT end of last year.
Check the link.http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/02/03/gt_over/
Cheers
Lisa
Ahhh, that sucks. The GT is gone! It’ll be back oneday. It makes sense though because the company doesn’t want to go bankrupt so they put it on hold.
the gt never dies! its gone, but i really do wish they brought it back. i think its one of best supercars ever made. clarkson even bought one, and thereafter have a host of things go wrong with it.
Genaddi design based in the states have made a convertible version that is lower has even more power. brilliant piece of engineering. this is what performance motoring is all about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw63ZEj9DGo