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Article feels POV
The claim that the Corvette is widely regarded as "America's Sports Car" should be sourced. The part that heralds the affordability compared to other sports cars feels POV. Mister Tog 00:10, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
The introduction is poorly structured and written
I'm not a particularly skilled writer nor am I an expert on the Corvette. However, I know enough to definitively state this article is problematic.
“The Chevrolet Corvette is a sports car that has been manufactured by Chevrolet since 1953.”
Manufactured by Chevrolet or General Motors?
“It is built today exclusively at a General Motors assembly plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S.A.. “
The first two sentenced should be combined. How about saying manufactured by GM, but branded as Chevrolet?
“It was the first all-American sports car built by an American car manufacturer. The National Corvette Museum is also located in Bowling Green, Kentucky.”
Source.
“For more than 50 years, Corvettes have combined very powerful engines and affordability, especially when compared with more prestigious marques of similar performance.”
That’s the one sentence a complete Corvette ignorant needs to know? This is an opinion, espeacially what is 'prestigious'. Many would argue, in fact I would, that the Camaro combines powerful engines with affordability compared to the Corvette. The Corvette's biggest rival in the 1960s, the Shelby Cobra used a similar type engine. This sentence should state something to the effect that GM designed the Corvette to compete with European sports cars.
“Older generations of the Corvette have been criticized for being crude and lacking in refinement by European sports car standards, and their on-limit handling is a divisive issue garnering both praise and reproach. “
It is true early generations of the Corvette were not good handling cars compared to european sports cars. It might be good to state something to the effect, "Early generations of Corvettes emphasised straight line performance and lacked suspension designed needed for performance handling on road course without modification to the suspension." Something similar needs to be said for the brakes. However, this shouldn't be in the intro. In the into of Porsche article I don’t hear criticism of its rear engine design and weight distribution. It's also unfair to make such a blanket statement, because all sports car of the generation of Corvettes in question required modifiction for safe-competative driving on a road course, espeacially the brakes and tires. The same is largely true with modern sports cars. BTW, anyone driving near the cars limit on the street is a madman. “Recent generations of the Corvette, however, are widely seen as being much improved in these areas.” Save this for a criticism section.
“Corvettes tend to emphasize simplicity over technical complexity. Where nearly all competing marques rely on smaller displacement, more complex and faster-revving engines, the Corvette uses a simpler overhead valve (OHV) design coupled with a larger displacement to make up for the lower rev limit pushrods impose.”
Again this entire paragraph is filled with opinion and criticism that doesn’t belong in an intro. Can you cite a Corvette engineer stating the Corvette’s design emphasizes technical simplicity? It’s an opinion and a generalization to state large displacement OHV engines are less complex compared to OHC smaller displacement engines. Faster-revving as an advantage is irrelevant and a generalization. From a performance perspective, most racing drivers prefer a torquey slow revving engine over a peaky high and fast revving engine because it’s generally easier to get maximum performance from the engine. For example, the rev restricted V10 powered 2006 Toro Roso F1 cars had an advantage over their smaller displacement faster and higher revving V8 counter parts. At Le Mans in 2004 the C5-R were forced to use intake restriction to make the faster revving Ferrari V12s more competitive. In 2006 Audi replaced its fast high revving sports car prototype; the R8 with the diesel powered R10 and saw no disadvantage, if anything the R10 was an advantage.
“The result is usually cheaper to manufacture and maintain.”
True. It’s also relevant to state the ‘simple’ the modren Corvette engine has far superior fuel economy over its ‘high-tech’ counter-parts.
“Another example of this philosophy is the continued use of transverse leaf springs in the suspension. This is judged as a lack of sophistication by some automotive purists, and has fueled the aforementioned "lack of refinement" argument.”
Criticism section. The transverse composite leaf spring does use fewer parts over a coil over set-up, just like the OHV compared to OHC. It’s fair to point out F1 cars have used leaf spring.
POV section
This MUST! be a European site... I've never seen sooooooo many excuses made up for Ferarri at LeMans. Why didn't you explain that Aston Martin was on it way to getting LAPPED by the C6 at Sebring until one of its 2,000 dollar Carbon-Carbon rotored brakes exploded! (this also happened to a C5-R, but it was fixed, finished the race, and the C5-R team still won) And they STILL were able to finish on the same last lap with a complete front end change had it been a 24 hour race instead of 12 the Vettes would have DEMOLISHED Aston Martin and ProDrive.
Oh yeah, you Euro's seem to think that "leaf springs" are some money saving device or something, pffff, huh, where ARE your engineering caps???
The leaf springs that are a HUGE part of the Vettes superior handling. They are transversely mounted (left to right) and that reduces sprung and unsprung weight, and lowers the center of gravity.As well as bringing weight inboard for a lower moment of enertia. They're made of a very HIGH-tech, lightweight and highly tunable,fiberglass composite.
If you wonder why the Covette team laughs and turns away when you guys say "LEAF SPRINGS haha"...
IT'S BECAUSE THEY DONT WANT YOU TO FIGURE OUT THEIR SECRET! LOL
and finally! The corvette winning is NOTHING new.. In America we race all types of cars.The SCCA has had a showroom class since the early eighties.. IMHO this is the ONLY class that represents the cars you and I buy... They install a rollcage, shave the tyres and then race. The Corvettes would win and fill the podium, soooo much and soooo often that BMW and Porsche had as many as 10 FULLTIME engineers in the pits. JUST to try and figure out why the Vettes were UNBEATABLE. Well.. all the German white-coats they could find, couldnt help.LOL So the Corvettes were given their OWN series. The Corvette Challenge....20 yrs ago!
No. Its not a sports car in the Brit sense of the word ...Its America's Sports Car!
The above does not seem to be signed, so I don't know who submitted it, but it is a bit of a rant and serves no useful purpose. Whoever wrote it, could you please back it up with facts and references? I particularly find the "leaf spring" portion interesting and would like to see some references to back up the suggestions that it "reduces sprung and unsprung weight, and lowers the center of gravity.As well as bringing weight inboard for a lower moment of enertia."
As for Corvettes winning races, which international championships have they won? Nasty 12:46, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
International Championships??? UH ,,, NEWS alert! Championships, that take place ONLY in Europe, are NOT "International" they are "European Championships" and they are meaningless. Your silly observation serves no purpose... but to boost your silly little ego. I said "in AMERICA"... hello??? we race ALL kinds of CARS(BMW Porsche Ferarri Lamborghini etc...) look up SCCA(Sports Car Club of America) THIS is a discussion. So,,, your pointless quips are unwelcome here .. Read BEFORE you write,son.
Wrong ! again I wouldnt dare consider you MY son, it was an abreviation ... lol More input ... pfffm, More Euroexcuses...pathetic. Your fooling yourself if you are dumb enough to believe that an American BMW Porsche Audi or Ferarri racing teams are any "less competitive" over here. Jees,, that is some kind of blind denial.After all WE (America) are THEIR largest markets,, AFTER ALL
Every team in 2005 that WON their class AT LeMans was an AMERCIAN racing team !!!!Look it up, JUNIOR..
AUDI,Lola,Corvette, and Porsche teams were all... YOU GUESSED it... American based AND run teams !! .LOL Sooooo get over you silly little EuroSupremecy trip and deal with it. We have a highly celebrated history of European car racing, here and it's VERY competitive. Still doesn't change the fact that Vettes dominate, in class, PERIOD. P.S. dont even get me started about Camaro Z28s and Mustangs pounding Porshes and such for a FRACTION of the operating costs, LOL signed sign
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Is it a sports car?
Please vote (with a one-line answer, indented) on the following question:
Is this vehicle a sports car?
- Yes
- No - it's a GT car
- No - it's just a sporty coupe
- No - a dragster
--SFoskett 13:16, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
- Yes. —Morven 17:52, Oct 9, 2004 (UTC)
- Yes. SamH 16:55, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- No, its a GT--JonGwynne 01:45, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
- Yes. Stombs 23:17, Jan 1, 2005 (UTC)
- Yes
- Yes its the first american sports car EvolutioniuM 00:52, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
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Since this has been resurrected, I'll pick "
no
, it's a sporty coupe". —
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