I've been looking at 2014 Stingrays, and I've driven several of them in the past two months. I've been driving my '08 Touring Coupe on my trips to dealers around where I live, so the Z knows I'm looking.

Well, yesterday I came pretty close to a deal on a limerock green Z51 3LT coupe, a VERY nice car btw. The dealership guys even looked the Z over pretty well as a possible trade-in. I told them I'd let them know in the morning.

The Z is very forgiving of all this. When I got back in, she said to me, "That b***h got nothing on me when it comes to having fun. Let's GO!"

She was right, of course. I called them this morning and told them I wouldn't be buying the Stingray.

 

The color you're speaking of is hideous. If you could get one in red id trade up in a heart beat. Z's are fun, but the new corvettes is an all different beast.

 

Wow. Good for you to not be swayed.

 

Were you planning on wrapping it to hide the color?

 

Were you planning to drive the Corvette under 3000RPM for it's lifetime too?

 

the problems start when you talk back...

 

How do you have fun in a Z under 3000 RPMs? 77mph max on the highway.

 

My car just screams,
"Paid off", and I smile.

What's the monthly $ damage for the vette, btw?

 

5AT, under 3k rpm, and all stock. Fun. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

 

Geez lol some of you guys are brutal lol

 

There are people like dugan, then at the other end there is winchman.

 

With the 5AT, 3000rpms gives you 90 mph. GA has a nasty 85mph super-speeder law that will ruin your day, ergo.....

And then there's the fact that my DD is a Silverado pickup. Compared to that, the Z is like a gokart. Going 45 feels like 65 for the first half hour of driving, so I can get a lot of thrills without really going fast.

Lastly, I retired twenty-two years ago, so I rarely get in a hurry any more.

 

I like the Limerock green....but most people don't. Its the color i'd get. What kills me on the Stingrays is the wheel gap. Something about the stance of the new vette is just off. Its a great car. My thing is If I drop 60 large on a new car I don't want to tinker with it for at least a few years and the wheel gap wuld make me lower it. Is the suspension adjustable on the new vettes. Why the huge wheel gap?

 

I don't get what your intentions were in starting this thread? I'm actually, literally, perplexed at the moment.

 

clif notes... he looked at a vette and was ready to buy, he got in his Z to go home and he realized how much he loved his car and enjoyed driving it and backed out on the vette

 

My Z told me that it was thinking of trading me in for a new Vette.


Id make the swap in a hear beat, albeit for a white one.

 

but black looks so sexy..... you already know that........

 

Oh ok makes total cents now

 

Never again.
















Although Ive said that in the past lol, several times too

 

My Z told me to make a chicken sandwich and eat a watermelon. How are the auto Z's anyways? Are they really fun?