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?
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.
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.
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’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?
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.
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.
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.