It’s the rear 2/3rds for me. The back doesn’t compliment the front and the side blade needs to be oriented the opposite direction. I also think the wheel options don’t do it any favors. The front is great, can’t get over the rear though.
Either way, it’s still a great car for the money. The interior is pretty rad too. Can’t go wrong with it. After all, it’s got the cool factor, the general public goes nuts seeing one and it performs well.
I’d have to figure one of the biggest things they focused on this time around was cooling and making sure the proper amount of engine cooling takes place for track operation. After the headache they had with the C7 z06, can’t have that problem again.
Still really happy to see they went with the mid-rear which should have happened years ago but they 100% milked the front engine as long as they could to profit as long as possible.
Being naturally aspirated makes the cooling system significantly easier. The last engine was a packaging nightmare as far as getting enough airflow into and out of the heat exchangers. The Camaro team that did the ZL1-1LE did a much better job with the LT4 than the Corvette team did.
edit: The Z06 almost looks too upscale. It doesn’t look mean or aggressive at all.
This is why I’m really happy with it. The current Z06 looks like GM took the base Vette to PepBoys and said “give me most of what you got”. While the current ZR1 they said, “give us everything, plus the tuner section of JC Whitney”. Is there a square inch on the ZR1 they couldn’t glue another wing/spoiler/aero bit on?
Keep that radar detector away from your rear view mirror…
For owners that hard-wire a radar detector behind the rearview mirror, the aftermarket device can change voltage levels in the vehicle, and specifically targets the side mirrors. This can result in dimmed pieces of glass, or a disturbing image of randomly generated line patterns left in the glass.
That does suck, but I must say if I had one, I’d probably have been screwed this past weekend. I didn’t realize till it had already puddled but I dropped my bottle of water on the ground in my house, got in the car and drove to HV. About half way there I realize the cup holder was filled a fair amount with water. Apparently I must have punctured a small hole at the bottom of the bottle to allow gravity to upset me. If only I had a BMW, my airbag could have gone off.