Z-06

No seriously, because as the electrical systems get older you start seeing these intermittent problems. The cruise control on my Lumina has some electrical gremlins which makes it have a mind of its own. I cannot find the root cause.

Just a bad wire.

Improved, I suppose. But it remained terminally ugly. So will the vehicles discussed here.

Just updated mine to Jellybean. The process is very straight forward. and your #1 bullet is wrong. Just swipe the name right to dial. No luck for Jellybean update yet, and cannot Swype on dialer in melted icecream sandwich. Bullet #1 stays correct.

Proves that GM was ahead of its time. Aztec is the grand daddy of the current ugly litter X6, Fl(J)uke, etc. Where is the ZDX?

Show the numbers instead of conjectures. Is the technology in LT1 mutually exclusive from V8s used in the trucks? Just because it was showcased in the engine to be put in the Corvette does not mean it was ONLY FOR Corvette. As I mentioned in my previous post, if people want V8s in cars then V8 from the trucks will be used in the cars. Let us see Ferrari improve its fuel economy by 50% and Corvette by zero then we can prove your hypothesis correct.

BMW December 2012 - 43,055, YTD - 347,583 MB December 2012 - 31,372, YTD - 305,072 Am I missing something here? Tell me what you are SMoKing, may be I need to try it too.

It matters little what car or vehicle it is in the fact is the V8 is under attack and it will either have to fine a way to do better or get the laws kicked back or changed. We are watching companies sell their souls for 1 MPG and even less. Did you ever think that you would see GM sell a car like the Spark in the US market let alone people start buying them? We soon will see 3 cylinder cars some smaller than the Spark. The Corvette in a good year can sell 30,000 car and in a bad year 12,000. I am sad to say even at these numbers in this politcal climate has an effect on a company. They do give trucks a little room to work yet on the 3/4 and up but I wonder how long till the EPA attacks them. I do not like it either but as long as we have people in office appoint the people we have in agencies like the EPA and others with little to no oversight it will not improve. Hyper do the math, for 2012 Corvette (~14,000) units forms 0.55% of GM's sales. So a 1 mpg net gain will equate to what? Insignificant at its best. Where GM is rightly concentrating on is on trucks and vehicles like Volts. Another way to cut the slice, 1 mpg gain in trucks will be equivalent to 60 mpg gain in Corvette for the year. How are you going to gain that? Trucks need V8s and if GM builds truck V8s with fuel efficiency measures to support the cars having them then so be it. Economy of scale of those vehicles is going to keep Corvette alive unlike Ferrari or BMW, MB. Unless VW combines all its brands together as VWAG of America, Audi is in trouble as well. And second, Ferraris already have at least 4 mpg disadvantage to a Corvette. So they need to come up to terms with Corvette, not other way around.

Nissan and Infiniti models are designed based on faces made by Carlos Ghosn when he is taking a dump.

You don't understand Corvette.

How much is Camaro going to shrink? 24 inches in length, 11 inches in wheelbase, and 6 inches in width? Because then and then only it will be a BRZ competitor. Given it is on alpha, you are looking at a footprint similar to ATS, which means shrinking by 8, 3 and 4 inches in those dimensions, respectively. That still leaves room for a small, fun, tossable vehicle beneath the Camaro. And you may call it huge, but the car is within 2 to 3 inches of its nearest competitor Mustang. And unless Mustang goes extremely tiny, I do not see Camaro going as small as the ATS. I expect it to be saving weight without too much sacrifice in the footprint.

Camaro is on target to sell 85,000 models. Not all of those 15-20k units of this small car will be Camaro cannibalization. Assuming only 50% of those, you still have Camaro selling ~75,000 units per annum. When Camaro goes on alpha you are looking at good platform sharing with ATS, CTS and a possible Buick anyways. So yes there is a room for a smaller two seater car with 4cylinder and turbos only to compete directly with BRZ, Miata and now S2000. Camaro because of its very history and heritage is not a competitor for all those. That market as a whole is worth about 100,000 cars annually, (if you include 370Z and Genesis), 20% market share is not bad. Plus this needs to be a global car, not US only car. There is not one GM car fitting that bill. Linear processing - get Malibu right then - needs to stop as GM has capability to parallel process and produce gem of a products. Malibu's team failed, push them to fix it, while others work on getting different cars out, how difficult is that?

Irrelevant. First, it came as a convertible only, not coupe, yet it sold close to 20,000 units a year, second only 1,350 coupes were made before GM killed Pontiac.

None.

Basically a BRZ competitor. Yes, GM does not have anything in its stable, but that Code 130 suddenly becomes worthy. Yes two turbos 1.6 and 2.0 with 200 and 300 hp, respectively should suffice. Camaro can take over at that point.

I think it is a statement car more than a volume car. And in someways it is a guinea pig car for Voltec 1.1 or 2.0 whatever you want to call it. The car will do just fine so as long the styling and quality is immaculate. It is a known fact that the Voltec is on the side of bulletproof. If you look at the bitchers - well they are the same.

Not a diehard Corvette fan, but I'm not aware of "bad press" due to the current engine. Any negative commentary WRT having an IBC withers immediately in the face of its performance, so those are NOT remotely potential Corvette buyers, just stone-throwers; their minds are not going to be changed. Also not aware that the Corevtte's 'survival' in in question. There was a LOT more weight to bad press for the Corvette in the late '70s, when it had 180 HP and couldn't get out of its own way. Today it's nothing but semantics. Corvette survival is in question, if not for C7 certainly for the C8. One reason I know it is in question is because the base price of the car has gone up by $7,000 since the C6 came out. Z-06 has jumped by $11,000. The volume is about fourth of what it was in 2007. GM has to make money somewhere. I would personally see it as an affordable sports car that could beat cars four times its price, which an American dreamed of owning rather than a competitor to European snob mobiles where cost of heated optional seats is $1,000. And if it takes to get cold turkeys as customers for its survival, then so be it so as long there is still a hardcore DNA existing in this vehicle . That is the best option. By having a cheaper and smaller platform mate for the Vette, you have economy of scales. But if the status quo stays for the Vette, we may not see the C8 and that worries me as a Vette fan the most. I will go a step further, if you do not like the TTV6 option then let Cadillac have a try again on the car and use TTV6 with similar power as the LT1 for base engine - give it a GT characteristics rather than a track machine ability to compete with SL head on. Have a TTV8 as the other engine V series and you have a pricier version to cover the Vette. One more thing I forgot in the car - I would not mind seeing a diesel V8 Corvette that shows GM has balls and can think outside the box.

Agreed on all counts, however, TTV6 gives an option for those who want it and to reduce bad press against the car. As much as I want the core DNA of Corvette not to change, it needs volume from turkies (people) who think the car is inferior because of not having a "high-tech" engine. The car needs to cater the core Corvette customers, and new breed for its survival. I never thought the interior to be a Cobalt value, neither do I think the seats are horrible, nor there is a need for fuel saving measures. But that is what the demand is so I see why the car is moving in that direction. A TTV6 would be following the same plan.

Actually Corvette needs different flavors to grow as a brand, but not a separate entity from Chevy. I am okay with a TT V6 so as long there is a pushrod V8 offered, however, anything less than that will be bastardizing the car. I had mentioned in one of the earlier threads, I can foresee at least 5 different variants: Base LT1 V8 or TTV6, with Grand or Z51 Z-06, same bigger V8 Competition cup - toredown car LT1/LS7(?) V8. The car is becoming more luxurious and moving away from core racing DNA. ZR1 supercharged or twin turbo V8 RS - similar to a Porsche GT3 At this point I reserve judgement to use all wheel drive.

Good news there. Z28, perfect dancing partner with the Z06. Good to see the 1.6T in the Verano too.

GM has got it right with Voltec. These baby steps are important considering how closely GM is scrutinized, lambasted baselessly, and held to the gun for everything which is considered as a misstep for Volt. Converj (ELR) is a diversification of Voltec, and shows Cadillac is not merely chasing the Germans. If the car gets sucessful, Germans would be chasing it.

You need a hybrid or a vehicle with what you call the eek-assist.

Nope.

The truck looks an iota better with the center console in place. Sure it is simple and modernized, but styling wise it is not great.

I have been disappointed with Android and Samsung Galaxy SII. You have to press four buttons to make a phone call after searching directory, Windows 6 phone did it in 2. A smart phone is a phone first and smart later. The volume control for speaker and ear piece are same. Come on - my circa 2002 Samsung flip phone had different controls for both. Weather software does not show current city and the position. Windows 6 phone did that. The phone is a memory creep. Starts around ~265 MB after turning it on, and in an hour memory is hovering at 500 MB. Didn't Google say how streamlined usage its phones will have? Talk about bloatware - Media Hub, Social Hub, Voice Control, Maps and others. Despite of removing them from task manage crop back as soon as you get out of it. No software like Juice Defender, etc. make them go away. Windows at least kills the software once in the Task Manager. Those software are another story - rather than saving Juice, by constantly killing these bloatware use more juice. Support for other email providers is horrible. It is as if Google does not want you to use other emails. At least Windows (I-phone) phone had same interface for all emails. Didn't Microsoft get dinged for being partial towards IE? Google gets a free pass on this? Sometime after I delete an email in Yahoo and Hotmail - the emails crop up again as unread. Once I had to do that 4 times. After melting with Ice Cream Sandwich - Google added another horrible step. For every time I Silence, Turn Off, Restart, Airplane Mode, the obligatory message, "Are you sure you want to ----?" pops up. Yes MF go tell Larry Page to suck between my legs. Media Player is suckage. Yes it also has pop-up ads, despite making every effort to not to download any crappy apps. Despite of hard reset, the phone is slow. Sure there are apps for everything. But if old crummy phones had those features standard in them, why can't this bleeding edge techno giant have it? Smart phones were about ease to use and power of working smartly for you. These are nothing but dumb f@#king phones. My old hag Windows 6 was better in comparison. It seems like we are moving a step back with these technological enhancements and irony is that I love technology. More importantly, the phone usage is more unsafe than my previous experience with any cellular phones especially while driving. That is a big hazard.