Wait, I thought dragsters were basically Corvettes: Fiberglass body with an overpower engine.

Before getting into engineering, I hated Corvettes simply because of the Corvette fanboys claiming that they are the best thing in the world. Well, they aren't - but they are pretty fucking good, performance wise. After driving a C6 Z06 in anger, I could see why Billy Joe Bob would think he was in automotive heaven. Once you sit in an Audi R8 or a BMW M3 CSL, it becomes pretty apparent that the Corvette team spent every ounce of energy making a car that could perform with the best at a fraction of the cost, and none at all in making it classy. The only sense of luxury and class I got from the inside of one was roughly the same kind of luxury and class Kid Rock exudes.

I think what's happening here is that numbers are being used to describe something that's not that simple.

tldr (not that I don't love you)

Five for Corvettegeddon though!

Okay, read it. Now it seems more fun to call them Corvettes!

Ursa, there were a lot of numbers in your post. I can't be expected to make total sense of all of them. But it seems the cheapest entry level BMW is cheaper (~ k) than the entry level Corvette (~ k). Corvettes can also cost upwards of 1k which intuitively seems way too much.

One more "cheapest" for good measure.

A base model BMW and a Base Model Corvette are totally different cars with completely different purposes and buyers - in fact, one is an entire company. What are you saying? And I didn't post any numbers in my post other than the names of the cars - I'm not speaking moonmath here. What?

111k is a lot for a Corvette, but that's in ZR1 trim. It's still a goddamned Corvette, so you're always going to look like Kid Rock or someone's retired saxophone dad in 90's coolguy glasses,a puffy leather jacket and mom jeans- but on the track, the ZR1 performs just as well as any other supercar while being 2 to 3 times cheaper. Some people only care about performance, and that's okay. Why, if you had 111k to throw around for a toy, you'd buy a Corvette, I don't know - but I suspect at that point it was because "you didn't already have one" and you think owning a European car makes you a pussy. The owners of the Z06 I drove also owned an old Lister Jaguar, so I don't know.

Except a GT-R is still cheaper, better on the track, and has a much better quality interrior than the ZR1.

And will beat it in a strait line using launch control.


You also wont look like a redneck cockhead in it.

Wow. I didn't know there were still people who drooled over cars in this day & age. Well, I knew they were out there, obviously, but... I hadn't actually seen one in the wild for quite some time.

They say his urine is a delicacy in certain Scandinavian bars and that he uses toothpicks handmade by undead wood-elves. All we know is, he's called "Ursa minor".

I'm enjoying the desperate attempts at rationalizing each video by corvette fans.

Me likey too.

I get a new reason each day to feel good about my girly little audi.