gavriil

From the article "Speeding" in Motor Trend June 2003:







For specs on all the cars tested click here:

http://24.221.29.240/Car_Mag_Article...e_03/Speeding/

gavriil

Comments:

1. Unbelievable performance from the Viper's brakes. It went from the worst brakes in the exotic groups last year, to the BEST! this year.

2. Three cars under 4 second 0-60 runs!!!

3. Three cars under 12 second 1/4 mile runs!!!

4. Look at that $50K Z06 beat the $250K 575M in the 0-100-0 test! Also in the 60-0 and 100-0 tests! I cant wait to see what the C6 Z06 will do.

5. 600 Ft slalom. Look at the EVO and even the Z06 get the 2nd and 3rd places!

6. The CL 55 AMG runs 187 mph top speed and when MT called Mercedes to tell them, Mercedes said, "of course...that is what we expected...we only took out one out of TWO speed limiters...the first one stops at exactly...187mph" !!!

7. Finally, too bad they could not get the full top speed of the cars due to track size issues.

gavriil

Nice to see the fastest car here (and possibly the fastest/quickest and most agile street car in the country) use the LS6 engine from the Corvette Z06.

darrinb

damn i cant wait to get that in the mail,

cant beat the z06 in terms of bang for the buck

SiGGy

Damb, pretty cool.

Z06 isn't $50k, more like 60 right? Either way it's a good for the $.

I had no clue what a Mosler MT900 Photon was until now. Crazy.

EDIT: Just checked chevrolet's site. $52k (hardtop) interesting.

Chaptorial

Yeah i've been reading this article on weekend. They did a great write up. Its pretty cool that they threw a Lightning into the mix as well.

Red Nj-s

GO Z06!!!!

Python2121

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeela to z06 cause its the only anti-american car hater.

cheap and fast is what it has and will be

nandowong

how much are those evos? I was surprised to see how well it did compared to those cars

nandowong

I think they spelled the mosler wrong. Shouln't it be MONSTER
instead

gavriil

The Photon is an American car as well chief. Same engine too.

gavriil

I still cannot believe the 13.08 that thing did. Anyway. The MSRP is 31K but if you find one less than 36 buy it yesterday.

gavriil

Notice the higher trap speed of the Viper in the 1/4 mile compared to the Lambo. Which means that with slicks, the Viper would have been beating the Lambo's time (Lambo is AWD).

Red-CL

I'm a fan of Amerian cars and especially Vipers.

I think the one in the test did pretty well.

gavriil

Actually, I was surprised at the11.7 quarter mile time. MotorTrend's numbers are always faster than the average mag, but still. I am sure it can do 11.9 or even 12 flat consistently. Which means that if there will be a coupe (pretty sure there will be one), I am guessing it will be half a second faster/quicker. So an 11.27, hypothetically, could be possible. Also, I would not be surprised to see the coupe make more power, either the first year of its production or the year after. A 50 HP increase would be pretty simple for this 8.3 liter, V10 engine. Then, watch out!

nandowong

how would a evo compare in #s with an subaru wrx sti? why dint they use one on this test (is it too slow)?

gavriil

They said the press STi was not available for this comparo. They will do a direct comparo to the EVO vs STi soon they said.

nandowong

which one do you think is better?