I'll be ok. Let me try and explain. We shall start with our old German amigo. I know the Porsche 911 is "the sports car benchmark" but god, I just didn't care about them. I would rather have had an Aston Martin V8 Vantage. I was tired of seeing them winning every comparison (I dislike the R35 GT-R for the same reason). I wasn't sold on the looks I guess, I don't have an especially good reason to hate on the 911.
This year I have seen more beautiful Porsches than I've ever seen previously, an awesome red 964 on BBS RS wheels and a jet black 993 on BBS RS wheels. They were pretty. I really appreciate an air cooled Porsche. I thinks its because my Coronet always seems to have overheating issues and that's obviously water cooled, so if you have a turbocharged air cooled car its an engineering marvel (to me). Anyways, along with the two air cooled Germans. I've seen a 991 GT3 in blue and a 991 GT3RS wearing gray. My oh my. I've come to really love the Porsche 930 Turbo slant nose.
I really respect that Porsche sticks with the original formula, flat engine all the way in the rear end. The designers also do a great job of adding retro items to their cars, especially the vintage 5 spoke wheels and the targa roof option. I'm a sucker for retro touches. Can we just touch on their supercars? The Porsche Carrera GT has one of the best sounding engines EVER, the high-strung V10 just wails away. It comes with a stick and has one of the prettiest shift knobs I've ever laid my eyes on. The Porsche 918 is an impressive piece of tech too. All of today's modern trends and technology rolled into one brutally fast feat of engineering. And where the exhaust exits...enough said.
Lets turn our attention to the comb over, the Chevrolet Corvette. I feel as though a Corvette is the American way of saying you make a decent amount of money and gives the owner the impression that their above the peasants among which they drive. Even if its still a C4 or C5, for some reason I still feel like people will give that driver an undeserved amount of respect. For as long as I can remember the Corvette has always come up short in magazine reviews, always bested by the German I spoke of earlier. It bothered me that America has been making the car for so long and it was shit on (understandably). C1, C2, and C3 early/very late Corvettes I have always liked. I even have the cheesiest Corvette lamp in the world, it displays a 1963 split window. You turn the lamp on by twisting a key and it makes an engine noise. I digress. I think the Vette has a crap interior that spans 4 generations, C3-C6. My biggest gripe, by far, is the owners. They flood into car shows like swarms of bees, stinging people with their "I'm better than you" glare. They think their Corvette is best Corvette as Mr. Regular would say. The owners often throw the most random stick-on bullshit on a relatively attractive car. I've met nice Corvette owners but jeez, they're hard to find. They hog all the good spots at car shows because they have nothing else better to do (same with Tri-Five Chevy guys for that matter).
The dawn of the C7 has changed my opinion. I like the car a lot, its appointed nicely and is a genuine world competitor. A black Z06 with the Z07 package is so gnarly looking, way more aggressive than any car needs to be. Its bad ass. I was at a car show earlier this season where I watched a C6 ZR1 do a dyno pull. That car was very influential in my Corvette opinion, still a crap interior but I think I could live with it when I have 560 whp. The Corvette is an important piece of automotive history for the USA, Chevy has made it relatively achievable for people to buy. We also can't ignore that fact that the C5 brought us the LS1, ahh yes the lovely LS motor that we hold near and dear. Swap them into anything and do heaters.
So I guess that's my life now, admiring these sports cars driven by men who have daily pissing contests with their neighbors.
*Don't get butthurt*
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