Originally Posted by Teck-9
A crappy old American car will never be as good as a German manufactured machine. The XF just needs some more power. I have driven a Z06 and its like driving a train. The old American addage, "power at the cost of handling." The Z06 couldn't handle to save its drivers life. All my humble opinion of course. Thank you.
I'm not sure which z06 you drove.. but saying it doesn't handle leads me to beleive you can't handle it to save your life, I'd like to see your (or anyone's) crossfire pull 1.05 G in a skidpad (with runflats). And "some more power" isn't going to bring an NA into z06 territory, sorry. The z06 may have a cheap interior, but everything it does makes up for it. To think that a 12 year old German design is engineered to a higher standard than a modern world class performance car is ignorant. As far as I know our frame rails aren't hydroformed, we don't have any carbon fiber body panels, we don't have a hand-assembled dry sumped race engine, our tranny isn't in the rear of the car to improve weight distribution, and absolutely will not handle 500+hp (manual). I can't really find 1 thing the crossfire does better besides have an orangy brown leather interior. I don't see what all the German engineering hype is about, I feel like its more of a snob appeal / media thing.