Originally Posted by downwardspiral
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.
That's what I like about the word opinion, frees my dumb *** from responsibility. To be frank, I just don't like American cars. With the skidpad, I will say that the Crossfire most definitely needs to be lowered and have all AMG suspension, AMG parts are the crown Jewell of Mercedes. The Corvette also comes with better tires I believe. Without those 3 things, our XF would loose out. But I believe the potential in an XF far surpasses a Corvette's potential in every Category,, but we will never beat it off of the line. I am not being bias, if I got an American car it would definitely be a Corvette. The look better and beat a Vipers and Ford GT's. The Turquoise Corvettes, sign me up. Mercedes' new AMG parts and engines are compatible with our xf's and that's what scares me. The monstrosity that that mad scientist Lantana is building is going to wreck even the new ZR1 in terms of top out, I'm not sure of his plans for handeling mods. Just how I feel. Dont take anything you read on the internet too much to heart. And can somebody tell me our skidpad g's for the N/A and the SRT/6. and check the SLK 320 and 32 AMG. They might have dumbed a few things down coming into America. Thanks all.