Comments on: New Corvette-powered British supercar due in July

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:57:50 +0000

COOL

By: BILL

BILL — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 06:55:44 +0000

U R GAY

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:18:22 +0000

this car is ace

By: mrs Budang patel

mrs Budang patel — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:27:29 +0000

im not hungry il have a chipati later.

By: mrs Budang patel

mrs Budang patel — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:26:24 +0000

amed come off of the computer and eat your chicken tika masala.

By: mr Ahmed patel

mr Ahmed patel — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:24:40 +0000

come on please, do it 4 pakistan.

By: mr Ahmed patel

mr Ahmed patel — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:23:52 +0000

im funny so im waiting 4 sum1 2 rite something back but it must be 2 me.

By: mr Ahmed patel

mr Ahmed patel — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:22:28 +0000

and had an amazing 4 horsepower.

By: mr Ahmed patel

mr Ahmed patel — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:21:21 +0000

In pakistan they wouldnt dare make a car as good looking as that. my first car was a sanjeed 6000, it had a 0.5 litre engine and a top speed of 27mph.

By: canut4ever

canut4ever — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:16:29 +0000

It is because at the end of the day although other cars can be faster than a Ferrari, they cannot touch it on its marque mystique and desirability. Given a choice of a Ferrari 575M or a Corvette Z06. Plus modern Ferraris do not have roof panels that come flying off when you drive fast. You yourself know what car you will eventually drive home. Arash is stupid with a billionaire ego. If he really wanted an Enzo, he could have been more patient because acquiring an Enzo is not an impossible dream. At the end of the day, several buyers chosen by Ferrari intends to buy an Enzo and selling it at a higher price.

By: think!

think! — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 00:31:08 +0000

i wish i was so insecure that i needed a car to pick up chicks… then brag about “two chicks at the same time” on the internet, is two a lot or something? anyways….

By: Renton

Renton — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:47:38 +0000

Yeah that is funny. But you will get better ass with a 575 than you will with a C5 or C6 or even a 911 Turbo. Chicks dig real Ferraris.

///”two chicks at the same time. “

By: think!

think! — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:05:16 +0000

funny how these pointless debates always boil down to “SOHC vs DOHC” or “USA vs Quality”… look ur missing the hilarious point of this story. This guy Arash inherited some untold billions or whatever, i think his family was big pharma or something. Anyways ferrari turned him down when he tried to buy an enzo, so in the style of many of you small minded LLN’s readers, he’s holding a grudge. Building a rip off Enzo, and then powering it by a GM engine is EFFING hilarious… thats just funny, and if you or i were billionares and got snubbed by ferrari, id be disappointed in you if you didnt do the same thing. Also rubs in the fact that the C5-r and C6-r’s RAPED the 575… Arash gets bonus points from me all the way around.

By: Renton

Renton — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 19:21:15 +0000

I agree 100%. GM will always find a way to screw it up. I like the idea of trying to compete with the new 6.3′s from AMG. What motors they are!

By: canut4ever

canut4ever — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:13:58 +0000

But the DOHC engines usually breathes better at high rpm and produces substantially more power. There is a reason on why the Corvette never sold in great numbers outside the North American market- because the Corvette is only tailored by GM to suit its home market. If the Corvette is to prove that it can go toe to toe with the established sports car makers not just pure speed but with applied tangible technology that people will appreciate. Gm needs to improve the build quality especially that interior more suitable for the Malibu, install a bored out Northstar V-8 to battle with AMG’s recent big displacement naturally aspirated V-8 and call it the new ZR1 Corvette.

By: Renton

Renton — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:17:03 +0000

That pushrod makes a great street motor, no?? I never said equal displacement DOHC vs OHV was the same. Because the engines are smaller and lighter, you can get more dispalcement in the same size package with an pushrod. They both have their advantages and disadvantages.

Ever drive a C6 Vette? I think you would be satisfied with the motor. GM actually decided that the pushrod design was the better powerplant for the halo sports car. They have a great DOHC motor with the Northstar, they could have modified one of those for Vette duty. I think the pushrod motor is lighter and has a lower center of gravity. Compare a Caddy XLR to a C6. Same chassis, different engine design.

That would be a good test for Car and Driver or Road & Track to do.

By: canut4ever

canut4ever — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 10:38:30 +0000

500 hp from a 7.0liter V-8, very low horsepower per liter. If that Ls7 had DOHC multivalve heads, it would produce 800hp with no problem at all. Lets just stick the pushrods where they belong- to muscle cars because they are suitable for the car’s character. As for the Indy bragging rights,yeah right, he did took advantage of the additional torque of the additional displacement of the pushrods. Let him try using the same v-8s with similar capacities between an ohv and dohc then we’ll talk. If ohvs are the way they why in the world most open wheel racing series rely on the DOHC engine set-up? It is because the world has moved on and GM didn’t. That is the real cause of GM’s troubles nowadays.

By: Renton

Renton — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:47:10 +0000

How many supercars are running 427 small blocks???

By: cool

cool — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:44:52 +0000

one word: “expensive”

By: Renton

Renton — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:25:27 +0000

47 — got damn right! 7000 RPM, 7.0 ltr, 505 reliable hp. Remember when Roger Penske found a loophole in the rules that allowed for pushrod engines in the Indy 500? He walked away with a victory. Torque won that race. It was almost funny.

Those things work, and GM does this thing well. Jay Leno stuffs the GM crate motors in all his crazy cars.

By: Fatstrat

Fatstrat — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 19:46:33 +0000

You retards better read up on the ‘push rod’ motor you are ripping on.
It’s not low tech like you are characterizing. It is fast, very strong ultra reliable and quite capable of running with the best of any manufacturers V8′s out there regardless of how many overhead cams they might have.

By: xmnr

xmnr — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:33:37 +0000

I’m more concerned about how this is tied to the farboud gts. This “arash af10″ has a separate badge, and with the recent development of farboud sports cars with chris marsh and the redesign of the gts to transverse ford v6 yielding comments from arash about “how he wanted to build a race car for the road, and all the public wants is something pretty” or something to that effect. A similar carbon over steel structure with LS7 power (as compared to a turboed-to-hell v6) with even wilder looks might alienate the audience that demanded the perverting of his his goal into merely a noble-competitor

By: Mike In CO

Mike In CO — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:39:00 +0000

Me dont want no pushrods in a stinking high end motor

By: Renton

Renton — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:48:50 +0000

I would call it less expensive rather than cheap. I would prefer the Vette motor over the Northstar. I’ll bet if you drove both back to back, you would like the huge torquey pushrod over the Northstar. I know I would. The ZO6 is a race motor for the street.

By: canut4skin

canut4skin — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:52:02 +0000

The Corvette engine will be cheap that;s why he’s using it

By: canut4ever

canut4ever — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:38:17 +0000

Here we go, Mr. Farboud is at it again. His stillborn supercar project hasn’t made a nice takeoff and now this….He should first turn his attention to improving his Farboud GTS- the build quality and refine the styling details to make it more appealing to buyers. I think the pushrod motor is considered because it is relatively cheap to acquire because GM builds it by the boatloads. Pushrods are nice for American cars but not to Euro-exotics. Here you are boasting hi-tech everything but the old engine. I think the better choice would be an upgraded Northstar V-8.

By: oodLes

oodLes — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:33:07 +0000

Yes because theres new and original ideas in all areas of car design today.

…OH WAIT!

Idiots. This looks like a good car with the same amount of performance as most of the top supercars.

By: Renton

Renton — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:27:51 +0000

I think it is a good decision to go with the Z06 motor. Pushrod engines are GM’s speciality. They are actually lighter and more compact than equal displacement DOHC engines. Lots of torque, and very proven.

Also, they sound amazing.

GM makes some crappy shiat, but they do some things very well. Big pushrod V8s, air conditioning, and automatic transmissions. Ferrari is using their MagnaRide shock absorbers in the new 599 Fiorano.

I still will NEVER buy a complete car from them.

By: Val

Val — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:03:18 +0000

Wow, these guys have no immagination, they seem to have copied just about every heavy-hitter supercar in the world. I think this won’t make production if it looks like this, nobody would buy it just because of the fact that its a pure copycat’s car. And also, from a professional standpoint, I think the reason these guys used a chevy LS7 engine is because they are CHEAP and that means a whole lot more money in the pocket of the company that wants to sell this car. Everyone knows that the electronics break like hell in any Mercedes, but the engines are very reliable and just make more power for their weight than any american engine. I think this car is just an imagination of some arabic big farmer, it ain’t goin’ nowhere.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 06:21:49 +0000

anonymous when that amg and m5 engine can kill a ferrari then they might consider it, and they most likely chose the engine because it is very good but americans dont tend to get much out if it, watch british engineers fidle with it a little and get extra 50+ hp or so, and for people that say its ugly, thats how a super car should look like, you have to have a little laugh and love the weird styling, its not an ordinary ricer u drive, sorry. good example is the Pagani.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 05:38:47 +0000

Rather have put the Mercedse AMG 6.2 ltr engine into it. More torque and horsepower and then have a little prestige with the engine brand. They could have even used the M5 engine.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 03:34:20 +0000

#32, Jeremy Clarkson didn’t say that, Richard Hammond did.

By: Ke

Ke — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:29:01 +0000

Its 505 hp not 550. Stop making stuff up lln

By: StanFord

StanFord — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:06:14 +0000

#29 – I second that.. lol

Otherwise, F’UGLY… Just something for teenage boys to wack off over..

The new F430 is nicer..

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:34:58 +0000

#7 – As Jeremy Clarkson once said… “American muscle in the safekeeping of British hands.”

As for the looks… I think it’s a pretty damn beautiful car. THAT’S what a supercar SHOULD look like…

Besides, the LS7 is an amazing engine. Sure, it might not be as “refined” as a Ferrari or Porsche engine… [at least, that's the argument I'm hearing], but its sheer power is undeniable.

By: Hugh Jass

Hugh Jass — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:18:17 +0000

If it finally comes to market, go to the dealership, look around then start scratching your ass violently. When queried, simply respond “I think I have a rash…”

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 01:12:15 +0000

think its cool using an engine that kills feraris and putting it carbon fiber good idea i think but could be mor eorignal with the deisgn

By: The Stig

The Stig — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:58:56 +0000

Should call it Crash and give the first one to Stefan Eriksson for testing…

By: sh.yoon

sh.yoon — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:57:16 +0000

Wow. Looks really…unimaginative.

By: Ahk-Med's tranny sister

Ahk-Med's tranny sister — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:24:20 +0000

It’ll be some Pakistani textile millionaire thinks he can run a car business

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:10:38 +0000

if they add i after arash, it will really sound japanesey

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:07:39 +0000

rear lights look like vets, side looks like enzo, also kind of reminds me of F430 ;p hmmm why the make new name up though? they already made a new name up, Askari why not just stay with that and make a new model… meh

By: Realist Idealist

Realist Idealist — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:57:28 +0000

3 people will buy this dont get so worked up about it

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:59:55 +0000

a lamborghini logo.. a corvette powered mid engine? $200,000? wtf..

By: British_Rover

British_Rover — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:28:09 +0000

The Ultima is a british sports car powered with american engines. The orginial cobras are the best example of british sports car american engine.