Podcast: Team Corvette Drives Home Results at LeMans
The final wrap-up of the 24 Hours of Le Mans from Le Mans, France, from Brent Dewar, Mark Kent and Tom Wallace.
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I am thrilled to be the first on this blog to congratulate you on this magnificent achievement.
Once again, as (very) small time Corvette racers ourselves, we have a good sense of the level of talent, resources, and commitment it takes to be competetive, let alone win, at this level.
Once again, I challenge you to apply this same level of talent, resources and commitment to developing an ultra high mileage car to compete with and surpass the Prius. In my view, it is an issue not only of world class bragging rights, but of the very survival of GM.
If your engineers, Pratt & Miller, Katech, et al, can win Le Mans, they can turn an Aveo or something into an 80 mpg car. I have more confidence in you than you have in yourselves.
What is there to say other than-
(AGAIN AS USUAL!!!)
woo, good job once again Corvette Racing. Now just get that #3/63 car’s luck turned around for the rest of the season.
Well done! watched every televised minute. The factory Vette first and a privateer effort third. That and the other factory Vette at least made it to the finssh line with its head held high. Job well done by all.
Now if only you could get Cadillac to the same competitive level as the Audi R8/R10 in the LMP1 class then GM would really stand astride the world’s greatest endurance race.
Come on Cadillac! GET IN THE GAME!
Or how about Jon Moss? Is he still around? We have a 95 Impala SS, so we know what he can do out of the parts bin to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Ecotec in the Aveo? Ride height in the weeds? Ultralight wheels, seats? Composite hood? Doors? Hatch? (Yeah, hatch!). Aluminum chassis components?
Better yet, do all of the above to a Cobalt, which already gets the same mileage as the Aveo, has the Ecotec, and is made you-know-where.
The lads know how to get weight out of cars. Some senior executive of Toyota was quoted in Autoweek recently as saying that the way to improve fuel economy is “lighter cars with smaller engines.” That’s an engineer talking for sure. Hello?
If you got the mileage competetive, maybe you could get some markup in the prices. They are advertising loss leader Aveos for $7990 in LA right now. You sure can’t get a Yaris or a Fit for that, but we still won’t buy one because the mileage isn’t there.
racing improves the breed but only if you apply the lessons learned in racing to the road cars you sell. the c6 corvette is an excellent example of this but the lessons you learn can be applied to more of your products. rember, a racing program is never too expensive if you use the knowledge to make better cars. congratulations corvette racing and good luck in the future.
I hope this will be a basis for Chev advertising.
New York Times center spread
Picture of cars in winner circle w/something like this.
“…Chev C6r; no hybrid–all chevrolet…”
Do It (more fun then arguing about use of word “rubbish”)
Whoever said GM will not go racing was flat out wrong! Go GM!
Win!
More effort is needed to really advertise this fine acheievement. And by that I mean pushing this fact in Europe too, where winning at LeMans really boosts your image.
We don’t hear enough of new models coming such as GMC Acadia and the SUPERB Buick Enclave.
It is my dream car ! Go !