The Big Three are all back with high end sports cars. What's your pick?

22 May 2016

Chevrolet has the Corvette, Dodge has the Viper, and Ford has the GT. This is the first time since the above photo was taken a few years ago that all three manufacturers have had super cars to match each other. Each derives it’s power from very different engines, with a TT V6, SC V8, and an NA V10 for comparison. However, they all put down within 50 HP of each other. But how well do they match up?

Ford GT

Let us start with the one that is not yet for sale, and is also by far the most expensive. With a projected price of $400,000 when it goes on sale, it is by and far the largest price tag of these three. It is priced to compete with the Lamborghini Aventador, not it’s domestic counterparts. Is the extra price worth it? That’s for you to decide.

For roughly $400,000 you get a carbon fiber shell and body, with a mid mounted twin turbo 3.5L V6 pushing out over 600 HP and torque. This is mated to a seven speed dual clutch automatic. It also has active aerodynamic components, and six piston Brembo carbon ceramic brakes. Everything is available in carbon fiber for this vehicle, from the seats to the rims. This should be the lightest of the three by quite a bit.

Dodge Viper ACR Extreme

A Viper ACR with the Extreme Aero body kit comes in at $150,000, a far cry from the price of the GT. It has the highest aerodynamic down force of any current production vehicle, which helps it through the corners. However, this also hurts it’s top speed to the tune of 27 mph. The Viper is powered by the largest engine in any production vehicle, an 8.4L V10 which puts out 645 HP and 600 torque. This is put through a six speed manual gearbox. Stopping power is again provided by six piston Brembo carbon ceramic brakes.

Chevrolet Corvette Z07

Coming in with a price tag just under the Viper is the $145,000 Corvette Z06 with the Z07 performance package. 650 HP and torque is provided by a supercharged 6.2L V8, mated with an eight speed automatic. If you guessed that the brakes were comprised of six piston Brembo carbon ceramics, you’d be right. This doesn’t have the fancy aero of the other two, but it is the cheapest. It is also the most powerful.

There you have it: Three very different, yet comparable vehicles. Which would be your choice, and why?

Comments

LOL, the corvette in the same article says different, beaten on torque and BHP with an engine 2.2. Litres smaller?

Thats a whole 250/300 BHP engines worth of displacement difference and its still less powerful?

I know we can throw around the notion of potential and so on the engine has when we talk about power mods that will be easy to do after purchase but why would they not capture some more of that potential before it leaves the factory

Are you accounting for the liter size of the supercharger on the Corvette with your math? If not, that’s a whole lot of difference. The supercharger is 1.74 L.

Oh yeah. Lol.

Regardless, no combustion takes place within the supercharger so that to me is a moot point…..

Ignoring the fact that there is a forced induction power adder when talking about total power seems rather… Odd.

Ford GT

Why?

As I mentioned i find it silly they wouldn’t add forced induction at the factory…..

(I do apologise, I meant to put WOULDN’T so my bad there, that muddied the waters)

Well, the vast majority of new engine designs are becoming FI.

Exactly my point? They could have tweeked the engineering a little and added a supercharger to the current engine and made a monster of an engine or been able to reduce the overall size and volume of the engine thus reducing weight while keeping the same power figures.

N/A just seems so old fashioned now, even when it comes for the ‘no replacement for displacement’ crowd most of them bolt a supercharger onto their engines if they dont have any FI as standard.

I just see it as a wasted opportunity by dodge…..

I agree with you, but it still remains an awesome car

I actually like that

ACR. Cause racecar

Racecar wing for the win.

Corvette c7 Zo6.

Why?

When I was younger, I always believed that the greater the size of the engine, greater the power,so you were suppose to win against all others automatly .But as you grow you realize that even when the engine is small it could develop alot of power plus it cuts your weight and it helps you too, That why I chose the GT .