SL55/63/65/R230 AMG: SL65 vs. Katech Z06
10-15-2008, 01:33 PM
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SL65 vs. Katech Z06
Not really similar cars, but as straight line wonders it would be a fun drag race 
I'd take an SL over a ZR1, but dunno about the Katech.. sounds pretty damn fun.
http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...y_file?cid=336
I'd take an SL over a ZR1, but dunno about the Katech.. sounds pretty damn fun.
Katech Corvette Z06 ClubSport
Gravity isn’t one of those things most people think much about. We bet you’d notice, though, if it suddenly increased 10 or 15 percent or shifted polarity and pulled you, say, to the east instead of down. Imagine this (but don’t actually do it): take the chair you’re sitting in right now and bolt its feet to a roof that slants at a 45-degree angle. Now try sitting in it. What you’d be experiencing is approximately what someone feels in a car cornering at 1.00 g.
We measure cornering ability in fractions of a g—1.00 g is earth’s gravitational pull on you at sea level—and to street cars, a full g of cornering is what a 400-lb bench-press is to the average gym rat. In the last year or so, we have tested 210 cars, only a handful of which have met or exceeded 1.00 g on the skidpad: we spotted a Viper SRT10 at an even 1.00 g, a Corvette Z06 at 1.03, a Viper ACR at 1.08, and now this Katech Corvette Z06 ClubSport at an astonishing 1.12 g. The only car we’ve tested in the last year that bests that number was a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup—a purpose-built race car—with a 1.16.
Gravity isn’t one of those things most people think much about. We bet you’d notice, though, if it suddenly increased 10 or 15 percent or shifted polarity and pulled you, say, to the east instead of down. Imagine this (but don’t actually do it): take the chair you’re sitting in right now and bolt its feet to a roof that slants at a 45-degree angle. Now try sitting in it. What you’d be experiencing is approximately what someone feels in a car cornering at 1.00 g.
We measure cornering ability in fractions of a g—1.00 g is earth’s gravitational pull on you at sea level—and to street cars, a full g of cornering is what a 400-lb bench-press is to the average gym rat. In the last year or so, we have tested 210 cars, only a handful of which have met or exceeded 1.00 g on the skidpad: we spotted a Viper SRT10 at an even 1.00 g, a Corvette Z06 at 1.03, a Viper ACR at 1.08, and now this Katech Corvette Z06 ClubSport at an astonishing 1.12 g. The only car we’ve tested in the last year that bests that number was a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup—a purpose-built race car—with a 1.16.
