Z/28 vs GT350R for real car people

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I noticed one idiot said over on Camaro6 that the crash was "intentional to test frame rigidity"...okay..not sure if it was sarcasm to be funny..but these prototypes cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, they're not just going to go bash one for funsies.

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[ZaneWayne]

I noticed one idiot said over on Camaro6 that the crash was "intentional to test frame rigidity"...okay..not sure if it was sarcasm to be funny..but these prototypes cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, they're not just going to go bash one for funsies.

Yeah that guy was being a smartass lol. No one is going to wreck a 500k car to see if it passes tests haha.

 

[garagelogic]

Ouch!!! Looks like the rear brakes locked up first. Glad no one was hurt.

Edit: I wish that they would have opened the hood though!

How does a car with ABS lock up the brakes like that?

 

[bluebeastsrt]

What a piece of crap. Wrecking at Nurburgring.:lol:




























































In all seriousness. These test cars wreck all the time. I love how which ever side your rooting for gets excited to see a wrinkled fender during testing. Anyone that's ever pushed a car hard has wrinkled some sheet metal.

 

[ZaneWayne]

How does a car with ABS lock up the brakes like that?

Not sure. Crazy things happen. Loks like it could have been a failure of some kind.

 

[75Brick]

How does a car with ABS lock up the brakes like that?

Electronic ebrake engaged for some reason?

Just spitballing...

 

[Cashcow]

Not sure. Crazy things happen. Loks like it could have been a failure of some kind.

Only the junk brakes of a Camaro would do that....

 

[ZaneWayne]

Electronic ebrake engaged for some reason?

Just spitballing...

That could be it.

Only the junk brakes of a Camaro would do that....

Dude I know right. Such a garbage car.

 

[Cashcow]

That could be it.

Dude I know right. Such a garbage car.

Major garbage.

 

[75Brick]

That could be it.

Dude I know right. Such a garbage car.

It reminded me of when some people I grew up with tried to do ebrake slides after watching one of the Fast and Furious movies...

 

[bluebeastsrt]

Either a malfunction in the ABS. Hense the testing in the first place. Or ABS was completely turned off. Thought I saw a laptop in the video so most likely they were testing a driving mode that effected suspension and ABS. Who knows more speculation. That turbo V6 sounds a lot like a LT1 to me though.

 

[75Brick]

Either a malfunction in the ABS. Hense the testing in the first place. Or ABS was completely turned off. Thought I saw a laptop in the video so most likely they were testing a driving mode that effected suspension and ABS. Who knows more speculation. That turbo V6 sounds a lot like a LT1 to me though.

Or Chevy was jealous of all the Mustang memes

 

[MaskedRacerX]

If I had time, I'd edit the crash into the middle of a [crash] video with Mustangs leaving a C&C

 

[SchultzLT1]

Looks like some sort of malfunction, there was no reason for him to even brake. Rear tires locked up before the front end even could dip, then the fronts. It was moving good though.

 

[Trackaholic]

Once again the Camaro is simply trying to copy the Mustang (although they did one better by actually hitting the wall, while the Mustang just missed - but that's because GM was able to see the Mustang's failure there and correct it )

[ame]

There was a very slight whistle in some of the early passes on that crash vid, but it may have just been the wind. Not sure you can hear the S/C in the Z06 either though, so sound clues may not be very useful in determining the engine.

They must have been testing with the ABS off, which is interesting since the driver locked the rears first and then all four wheels before sliding off and hitting the wall. Maybe they were testing brake bias settings and got it a bit wrong. It did seem like ABS would have allowed him to steer away from the wall rather than sliding into it.

Car was moving well though, and sounds good. The rear loosed a bit bouncy on one of the passes, but otherwise it looked very planted.

Also, it looked like they had three test drivers in the car when crashed. Those back seats must be useful after all!

-T

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