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Originally Posted by TSM330i
Oh Gawd! What's your point?
Have you ever read anything or driven a Corvette? I'm pretty sure that the standard Stingray will smoke an M4 around the track. Seven seconds is an eternity on the track.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features...o-2014-feature
BMW has nothing to compare to a Z06 either. That too has leaf springs and it smokes cars costing twice to three times the price |
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Originally Posted by Viffermike
To everyone who believes my leaf-spring post was a clueless jab: It partially was. But it was meant to be. I was encouraging discussion, gentlemen, based on a firm (pun partially intended) personal and technical belief that leaf springs have limited applications in modern car design. (And, for that matter, so do pushrods -- but that's getting off topic.) I view it as a cheap 'out' by Chevy -- which has a tendency to use a lot of them historically -- as applied to the Camaro and Corvette. IMHO, of course -- we're all entitled to them.
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The
Camaro
Does
Not
Have
Leaf
Springs
It has not had leaf springs since the early 80s