Carlos, I know you didn't write this (I've read your stuff on other sites and expect better of you,) but I'm going to respond to it as if you did. Take no offense, please.
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Carlos from Spain said:
The compromise is that the suspension should be coil springs over gas charged shocks or struts like a 997.
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LOVE it when critics of the Corvette bring up the transverse leaf springs, and insist the car MUST have coil-overs. I'll ask you the same question I ask them: Why? Do you
truly understand suspension dynamics enough to say, for sure, that the Corvette would be better suited with a coil-over design? And if so, why would it? What's better about it?
Here's one advantage a coil-over setup offers that a transverse leaf doesn't: independently adjustable corners. you can change the spring rate of the front left corner without affecting that of the front right, for instance. That's it for advantages. With that in mind, how important to the
vast majority of sports car buyers is independently adjustable corners? Answer: not very. At all.
Transverse leafs are lighter, stronger, and will last indefinitely. Also, GM chose the transverse leafs so they could change the angle of the shock, thereby lowering the height of the shock tower, thereby allowing more under-hood (ie, bigger engine!) and trunk room. (I have GM's SAE-published paper on the subject.)
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Brakes. Here I'm hoping that GM improved on the C5 but...
I'll never disagree with you here. Corvettes brakes have been pathetic, and continue to be pathetic, until the new Z06 is available. There's absolutely NO excuse for 2-piston floating calipers clamping a rotor that warps within 5 laps around a track. GM continues to use them because A)they're cheap, and B)they're lightweight.
Porsche does brakes goooood!
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Next is safety. Go to the Corvette website and search around for the safety efforts.... You'll be there along time because there isn't ANY!
This next paragraph is ramblings of an idi0t, plain and simple. The Corvette (C5 and C6) has a door frame that's plenty strong enough to pass any of the gov't (ever increasingly) strict side-impact laws. It's not empty, as the auther tries to make us believe. If you want to try and pass a bat through the door, feel free. You're not going to make it very far.
I realize this is a Porsche site, and most of you folks are Porsche fans. Be that as it may, I'd hope that your discussions of other cars would be based on fact and factual opinions, not this rubbish.
jas