Previous posts in this discussion:   » "Too Hot to Handel" and Chicago's Year of Music (David Duggan, 01/20/20 3:49 AM)    » What is the Best Soundtrack for Your New Corvette? (from Ric Mauricio) (John Eipper, 01/21/20 9:10 AM)

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What is the Best Soundtrack for Your New Corvette? (from Ric Mauricio) (John Eipper, USA, 01/21/20 9:10 am)

Ric Mauricio writes:

Many thanks to David Duggan (January 20th). I will check out "Too Hot to Handel." Imagine playing that on your BOSE system in your new mid-engined Corvette. My client's dad just pre-ordered his. Need to catch a ride with him when he takes delivery.

John E mentioned that the new Corvette is offered only with an automatic transmission. I quote from the GM website:

"General Motors Executive chief engineer Tadge Juechter told Car and Driver that part of the reason that a manual transmission is not offered in the C8 is the desire to not breach the mid-engine C8's central tunnel: "That tunnel is the backbone of the car, and if you break the backbone, you lose a lot of structural efficiency. With a shifter, you have to have a big hole in the tunnel for the linkage to go through."

"Another factor is the dramatically increased performance of the new Corvette's automatic, which, for the first time in the car's history, is a dual-clutch unit. The launch-control functionality and far quicker shifts of this new eight-speed would easily outperform that of a manual-equipped car; Chevy claims that the C8 will be capable of hitting 60 mph in under three seconds when equipped with the Z51 performance package, a dramatic improvement of about a full second."

JE comments:  The new 'Vette is also a bargain:  $59,995 to start with, although I'm sure you'd never find one at the strippo price.  Five bucks shy of $60K doesn't sound cheap, but to get that kind of performance in a Porsche or Ferrari you'll need double, triple, or quadruple that amount.  The big question is whether the Coastal folks will humiliate themselves enough to buy a domestic vehicle.  Corvettes still have that gold-chain, midlife-crisis stigma.

But Handel as the soundtrack, Ric?  Way too churchy, even in its funky incarnation.  Prince did record his classic "Little Red Corvette," but that's painfully obvious.  I'm going to advocate for Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run," or Mr Michigan himself, Bob Seger.

 

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• Your Corvette Soundtrack (David A. Westbrook, USA 01/23/20 3:27 AM)
  Ric Mauricio and John E were recommending background music for tooling around in your new C8 Corvette. My suggestions:
  
  1. SandStorm. I like the edginess of the Sub Sonik remix:
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KbnmcPYNm0
  
  
  2. Or, and kind of goes with the car, Swedish House Mafia's "Greyhound":
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDboaDrHGbA
  
  
  Obviously...
  
  
  JE comments:  These tunes couldn't be more Euro-techno, which may be the whole point.  Corvette has the goods.  Now it must overcome the "made in America" stigma.  If your Corvette happens to be blue, there's no more appropriate tune than Eiffel 65.  Note the 203 million views; that's 3% of...the entire world:
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68ugkg9RePc
  
  
  
  Music is a great escape from the weighty WAIS topics of the day.  But there's probably no more mellifluous sound than the small-block V8 screaming behind your right ear.  Try that in a battery-powered machine:
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKxQvRyp1Ng
  
  
  
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  • More Corvette Soundtracks (Paul Pitlick, USA 01/24/20 3:08 AM)
    Wouldn't the Autobahn be a good place to drive a Corvette?
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gChOifUJZMc
    
    
    
    Then there's also the un-Corvette...
    
    
    
    
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZv8l65YNvc
    
    
    
    JE comments:  Paul, you've touched my heart!  Nothing is more endearing than an East German Trabant--especially if you don't have to drive one.
    
    
    The Czech reality show Trabant vs South America (Trabantem Jizni Amerikou) features a group of friends barnstorming around the continent in two Trabants, a Polski Fiat 126 "Maluch" and an ancient Jawa motorcycle (from Czechoslovakia).  I must czech out the show; it looks like the best South American road picture since Ernesto Guevara's The Motorcycle Diaries.
    
    
    https://www.amazon.com/Trabant-vs-South-America-P%C5%99ib%C3%A1%C5%88/dp/B07GY447VT
    
    
    Back in 2014 I test-drove a Trabant around a parking lot in Nowa Huta, Poland.
    
    
    
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    • Breaking: A Corvette C8 Up on Blocks (John Eipper, USA 01/25/20 4:34 AM)
      Here's a story I've been following at WAIS HQ. The 2020 Corvette C8 is not yet available to the public, but one unfortunate example has already been stripped of its wheels. In Detroit, no less.  The story broke two days ago, when we were discussing the C8 on the Forum.  The WAIS Effect strikes again!
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quwY5P-3SQI
      
      
      The story has all the trappings of an urban legend, but the images are convincing.  I'll post any updates as they appear.
      
      
      (On an unrelated note, anyone looking for a cheap set of Corvette wheels?  Please contact me off-Forum.)
      
      
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