1998 corvette

From the May issue of Car and Driver. The Corvette and the Porsche also share a long motorsports heritage, which in turn has allowed them to incorporate meaningful performance, 1998 corvette, handling, and durability tweaks.

The Chevrolet Corvette C5 is the fifth generation of the Corvette sports car , produced by the Chevrolet division of General Motors for the through model years. Production variants include the high performance Z Pop-up headlights were featured on a Corvette for the final time during this generation. To improve handling, the transmission was relocated to form an integrated, rear-mounted transaxle assembly. The LS1 engine initially produced hp kW , subsequently increased in to hp kW. Relative to the C4, the new platform and structural design substantially reduced squeaks and rattles.

1998 corvette

From the October issue of Car and Driver. Doyle Road, about 30 miles west of our Ann Arbor headquarters, serves up a diabolical combination of crowned tarmac, humpbacked bumps, zipperlike asphalt zits, and one-wheel sink holes that is sure to uncover any flabbiness in a car's structure, discontinuities in a suspension's damping curve, or directional independence in the steering system. That's why Doyle Road has been a part of our Ten Best car-evaluation loop for more than 15 years. Yet at double the mph speed limit, the Corvette convertible remains calm and collected. Although its suspension is pumping furiously to let the wheels maintain purchase on the wildly undulating pavement, the body remains generally level and responsive to instructions from the steering-wheel rim. Most surprising of all, we perceive no cowl shake, no rattling body panels, not even any of the tremors deep within the body that most convertibles exhibit. In fact, the C5 convertible is as solid as any we've driven. Chevrolet's engineering measurements support these perceptions. The torsional rigidity of the new convertible, with the top down, measures The measurement of a vehicle's natural frequency relates its structural stiffness to its weight.

The Z06 had a total curb weight of 3, lb 1, kg, 1998 corvette. View Photos of the BMW i vs. Otherwise, the convertible performs much like the coupe, which 1998 corvette what you would expect given their virtually identical weights.

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Total Production: 31, Coupe: 19, Base Corvette Convertible with cu. Notes: Listed are recommended color combinations but any combination was possible except for code Follow corvettestory. Corvette: Year by Year Corvette Specs, Options: Year by Year To learn more about the Corvette, click here.

1998 corvette

From the October issue of Car and Driver. Doyle Road, about 30 miles west of our Ann Arbor headquarters, serves up a diabolical combination of crowned tarmac, humpbacked bumps, zipperlike asphalt zits, and one-wheel sink holes that is sure to uncover any flabbiness in a car's structure, discontinuities in a suspension's damping curve, or directional independence in the steering system. That's why Doyle Road has been a part of our Ten Best car-evaluation loop for more than 15 years. Yet at double the mph speed limit, the Corvette convertible remains calm and collected. Although its suspension is pumping furiously to let the wheels maintain purchase on the wildly undulating pavement, the body remains generally level and responsive to instructions from the steering-wheel rim. Most surprising of all, we perceive no cowl shake, no rattling body panels, not even any of the tremors deep within the body that most convertibles exhibit.

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But this C5 — a convertible that ought to flex like rigatoni—is as tight and buttoned down as George Plimpton. Other unique characteristics of the Z16 Commemorative Edition Z06 are the polished aluminum wheels, special paint color and striping, commemorative-edition badging and wheel center caps. Some Corvettes have a redesigned fuel tank system which makes repair very labor intensive and expensive. Front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive. Actually, from about mph, the Corvette is in front anyway. Although its suspension is pumping furiously to let the wheels maintain purchase on the wildly undulating pavement, the body remains generally level and responsive to instructions from the steering-wheel rim. All Corvettes Are Red. Any GM executive who ever suggests dumping this car again should be immediately dropped out of a 73rd-floor window of GM's new Detroit world headquarters. But the Corvette is now a truly great sports car, and the fine nuances of quality and control that make the Porsche a better car do not, in our book, add up to more than 30 grand. According to his notes, the feels lighter, more responsive, and more nimble on the track than the Corvette. The torsional rigidity of the new convertible, with the top down, measures Just look how close all the test figures are.

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And with its top up, the C5 offers 14 cubic feet of trunk volume, more than any other convertible on the market. Chevrolet's engineering measurements support these perceptions. Archived from the original on January 9, Top speed was only mph, down from the tomph speeds we've measured on the coupes. It is a version of Corvette coupe designed by Giorgetto and Fabrizio Giugiaro of Italdesign, commemorating 50 years of the Chevrolet Corvette. Fuel Injection. Top down, the C5 presents a particularly clean appearance. Article Talk. The fable of the hare and the tortoise makes the point that you don't have to be fastest to win a race, and so it is here. But that stuff costs money. The recalibration for the 98 models largely solves this problem, as we observed on Doyle Road. Stops from 70 mph require just feet—three less than in the heavier Corvette, which also wears substantially larger tires. Tools Tools.