[DryStout]

I like the black roof, black lights, and the fat back tires.

The thread below goes on and on. If the 500 hp rumor is true then I expect the car will have a 7.0l. 427ci*405hp/346ci=499hp

Certainly GM can get to 500 hp with a 6.4l if they wanted to try that hard. There is a guy on ls1tech that is firm about the new z06 being a 6.4l as he is involved in some part of the production process.

http://forums.gminsidenews.com/showpost.ph...391&postcount=1

Note the other z06 off to the right edge of the image in the first post in the above thread.

In person the c6 looks more compact. I like the one I saw better than the photographs of them. So I am more excited about the c6 z06 than in previous days.

Enjoy

[lateapex]

would extensive drivers education make teenagers more responsible drivers on public roads?

If you mean SERIOUS driver’s ed, I believe that it would help immensely. I credit much of my problem free driving history to thorough driver’s ed.

My dad told me on my 14th birthday that he would not allow me to get a driver’s license until I could pass his class, and a professional course after that. His lasted 9 months and involved me learning total car control. I had to be able to comfortably and consistently make 90* turns using 80% brakes and throttle, and only 20% steering wheel. I was a skinny 14 years old in a car without power assist and slow (3.75 turns lock-to-lock) steering. It was rear engined; that helped. I went through multiple sets of Tiger Paws. He invented crazy things like having to come to a complete stop with the car exactly sideways; 90* to the street; wet and dry. And having to start up from a standstill on a very steep incline with NO excessive clutch slipping; tach couldn’t get over 2000 rpm. It wasn’t fun to miss lots of football and tennis to go out with him again and again to do the same heel and toe exercises until he thought it was good enough. He even made me learn to shift without using the clutch, but no grinding. This was not speed shifting but at low rpm’s (the correct rpm for that gear) so that I would learn the “feel” of proper gear engagement without needing the “crutch” of syncros. I did enjoy learning to feel the correct balance between clutch slip and tire slip for maximum acceleration.

The professional class lasted the next 3 months; my entire summer vacation for 3 days each week. We watched over 60 hours of gory, bloody, shocking car wreck films, mostly from the state of Ohio, fortunately they were black and white back then. Even then, I had to turn away from the screen often and a number of students would run for the restrooms; sometimes too late. Each student also got 20 hours of in-car, behind the wheel driving instruction. Unlike my dad’s instruction, this was in traffic, in a “driver’s ed” sedan. They had us do things that would get instructors jailed today. But it WAS effective. In today’s dollars, that would have been a VERY expensive course. But, I bet that a lot of parents would pay for it if they could get their dead teenager back now. Or the person their child killed.

Looking back, it was all to the good. Not only did the films make a child think about life and death and responsible driving, but my dad’s teaching had a positive benefit also: when you are accomplished in a certain field, and feel very secure in your abilities, you are not so ego challenged when your peer dares you. I knew that I could out-drive any of my school mates and I didn’t need to prove it. I street raced twice in my first 20 years of driving and I don’t think that I would have gotten a ticket either time if a policeman had been watching.