Well, I would destroy both of their moms, emotionally, they would be so disappointed in me … :(
the vroom vroom idiot squad doesn’t care, just like the nazi simp musk fellators don’t care.
we’re trapped on a planet full of morons in every ideological direction.
*vette spins out and wipes out a crowd of people on the sidewalk…
You’re thinking of a Mustang.
Oh man, I remember a sub that was just mustangs wrecking. Good memories
I like trains.
I’m just reading through the comments trying to find anyone explaining why a Corvette couldn’t outperform a Tesla & ur mom’s 2015 Nissan Altima at a quarter mile distance? But you’re all agreeing with it. What?
Thats a 3rd gen corvette. The ones made in the early 70’s were famously slow. That’s the “malaise era” when the fuel crisis and emissions regulations meant that new cars coming out were less powerful than older ones. Technology hadn’t caught up, especially for American cars which had large engines with older block designs.
Engine technology has come a long way the past 50 years. What used to be the performance of a muscle car can now be reasonably done by middle of the line car today.
To add to the other comments, electric motors get full torque, or acceleration potential, at 1 rpm and it’s the same at every RPM. Combustion motors have low torque at 1RPM and build up to peak torque at a designed point (e.g. 3000 rpm) then start to fall off again. That makes electric cars great at sprinting.
Early-to-mid eighties cars were subject to environmental laws that severely limited their power. Third and fourth gen Corvettes were heavily affected by these regulations.
This looks like an early 70s C3 based on the back glass, no newer than '77, but the Clean Air Act was 1970 and California started their stricter smog controls in 1976.
If it’s the '76 Corvette it would sit right netween the performance of the 4 and 6 cylinder 2015 Altimas.
I hear assholes in muscle cars going by outside my window a few times a day, and their cars are so loud following traffic at like 30-40 mph. I would get it if they were racing or something, but if your car is doing just normal low-level driving why does it need to make so much noise?
It feels like if a person walked from one room to another while panting and gasping for air like they just did an intense sprint. I would be more likely to call an ambulance than hi-five them.
i remember watching some wrenching videos where the guy was dumping tens of thousands into a miata, and one thing kinda stuck with me: when you’re in a tiny car, you want to be loud so that the other cars are aware of you. Can you imagine taking out your itty bitty car you spent 50 grand and months or years of work on just to get sideswiped by some jackass in a RAM truck?
That being said, muscle cars are typically not itty bitty, so i get the frustration
“What is that loud and slow car?”
Oof! That’s gotta hurt!
That’s actually my fault.
I stole all their catalytic converters to pay a lobbying group to get the local politicians to fund mass transit. Instead the batards passed vaguely worded noise ordinances that get selectively enforced by so-called public servants to target certain groups.
Sorry about that.What they should really have is bypass mufflers, where that loudness only comes at high RPM.
Sadly, most do not…
My dad did the exact opposite of this when he had a Corvette. Some guys pulled up to the stop light, got him to roll his window down, and said, “Hey man, want to race?”
His reply. “Why?”
It’s like asking someone with running shoes if he wants to run…
That’s when you surprise 'em with the crowbar. haha sucker, better luck next time.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is “Never get involved in a land war in Asia,” but only slightly less well-known is this: “Never go in against Tonya Harding when temporary clout is on the line.”
I witnessed something kinda similar.
I was the passenger in an old beaten small panel van. The driver was a complete jackass, but I needed the lift. He pulled up next to an Alfa Romeo 159, and asked for a race. The driver of the Alfa just looked… confused. He gave us a very potent “I cannot sanction your buffoonery” look and rolled his window back up. My driver yelled at him. I sunk into my seat in an overwhelming combination of first and second hand embarrassment.
Can’t I hate both of them?
What has that guy’s mom’s 2015 Nissan Altima done to you?
He bought a Tesla because he thinks Elon is a genious.
Turns out it was about being loud and getting noticed all along. The really loud ones just like to annoy people because of psychpath tendencies. That has been studied.
Like those kids that put whatever it is in their Hondas or Nissans to make them sound like a lawn mower? Fucking obnoxious.
And what about all those booming stereos?
That sounds interesting, got a source I can read?
I had almost that exact vette when I was in high school. It was slow, but looked cool and was oddly decent on insurance.
My ex’s parents had a vette when we were ~20 and they let her drive it. It was decently speedy, but nothing to write home about.
A friend of mine has a Vette. It might be fast, I have no idea - he drives it like he’s afraid to go near the speed limit.
He must be who keeps driving in front of me…
I posted elsewhere recently that he’s basically one of the drivers that I find annoying, not maintaining speed, riding in the middle lane at under the speed limit, etc.
I…kinda love Corvette Man
Makes me think of this guy
That dude is like the opposite of Corvette Man
Corvette only has 1 comma energy, not 3 commas.
I kinda wish I had that energy.
Lots of compensating sports car owners downvoted this lolI retract myself I hadn’t seen it was a Tesla on the right
They can downvote this post in the quarter mile. We literally don’t care.
burnout noises
Going fast for a quarter mile is literally the only thing a Corvette can do, so it’s like if the punch line was a Mustang Guy saying he’s never been able hit a pedestrian.
A Corvette topped IMSA GTD Pro this year…I’d have to say they do pretty good on a track.
Huh? Racing corvettes have good records against Ferraris and Porches, going decades back:
Here’s a street corvette keeping pace with a tuned Ariel Atom, a horrifically fast track car, round the nurburgring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYZs7Ta2SSk
The “corvette meme” is that they’ll kill you in a crash, not that they’re slow around corners. They are not slow around corners.
I thought Vipers were the more dangerous ones? At least mid 90s ones.
Oh yes. Vipers are death traps, albeit rarer ones.
It’s also a very successful racecar, apparently because the gigantic displacement is advanteous for league detuning (like air restrictors).
Interesting. I do want a 90s one at some point. The aesthetic alone. Love those cars.
I think they used to be famous for spinning out in corners because they didn’t have much electronic help and tend to have inexperienced drivers. The newer corvettes are much more modern.
IIRC mustangs were specifically notorious for this due to their rear solid axle suspensions, though even that is probably down to driver error.
The “inexperienced driver” thing is true though, especially with the higher powered ones.
It’s the lack of camber in their front suspension setup, from what I’ve heard.
The solid rear axle is bad when they hit a bump mid-corner and hop, but it’s the lack of camber in the front tires which makes them especially problematic in spins. It takes cat like reactions to catch a mustang, which very few people have.
I guess the fun of spinning into a ditch or other people is part of the mustang mystique, so it never gets fixed.
That sounds right.
Though really its just so much power on rear wheels that does it. No suspension will save you from the torque breaking the wheels loose gunning it out of a turn.
Yeah, stupid shit is stupid shit.
A better front suspension setup would make the car more forgiving though. Most of it is on Ford for not fixing their setup.
What? Corvettes are one of the best track cars straight off the showroom floor.
I can’t tell if this comic is trying to make the sports car guy or the tesla guy look good, either way I’m not vibing with it.
It’s making fun of the Tesla person, and every bench racer who bags on other cars because they don’t have the numbers to beat a Camry.
Corvette guy is out enjoying his corvette.
I think both are assholes. Maybe that’s the point? People driving cars are assholes? I really dunno.
Oh shit I hadn’t noticed it was a Tesla
Not just any quarter mile, The Quarter Mile.
In France they call it “le Royal Mile”
Just wondering if everyone here feels the same about obnoxiously loud imports? Honda, Nissan, Subaru… these cars have kits available to make them sound every bit as obnoxious and loud. Done hate them as much as the American muscle car guy?
The same for stereos. Passing through apartments complexes blasting whatever fotw annoying bar music at 3:30AM? Just as bad?
Frankly, the backup warning sound from electric cars piss me off too even though they’re not that loud.
Everything that is unnecessarily loud is included.
Kevin Flynn in his 40s
