A ticket to the 2008 Detroit Auto Show: $12
A 2009 Chevy Corvette ZR: $100,000.
Looking at a naked ZR1 standing on end at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show: Priceless.
This is cool. What a way to see the most powerful Corvette ever made...
Highlights? How about an aluminum frame that weighs just 285 pounds, twin fuel tanks, a magnesium engine cradle, an aluminum rear suspension cradle, a magnesium steering column bracket and aluminum brake pedals. Here's something I didn't know. The ZR1 has asymmetric half-shafts. One is a larger diameter than the other.
I could look at this thing for hours, but I'm expected at the press conference for the Geely FC, which probably doesn't have a magnesium engine cradle. But then again, it probably doesn't have leaf springs either. -- Scott Oldham, Inside Line Editor in Chief
hondacura4 says:
05:04 PM, 01/14/08
"The ZR1 has asymmetric half-shafts. The one of the right is 33mm long, while the one on the left measures 40mm."
To reduce wheelhop and promote traction?
estreka says:
05:21 PM, 01/14/08
^ That's astoundingly short. Am I reading that right?
firstwagon says:
06:08 PM, 01/14/08
Are you sure that isn't cm, not mm? For the metric challenged, 33 mm is just over an inch.
cah11705 says:
06:35 PM, 01/14/08
Whats a half-shaft?
just wondering...
stovt001 says:
10:00 PM, 01/14/08
I think he meant thick...
ateixeira says:
10:21 AM, 01/15/08
Each half shaft connects the rear differential to each wheel hub. That in turn connects to the driveshaft, which goes up to the trans, then finally to the engine.
I love cut-aways so I would have passed on the Geely press conference to see that as well.