29 October 2009 - 14:00
The full Werkes
The SEMA show kicks off next week in Las Vegas. The world's biggest tuning show, it'll be packed to the brim with hotted-up, bodykitted, modified metal - including, as always, many many Corvette-based creations.
There shall not - we predict - be many Corvette-based creations at SEMA scarier than this, the C6 GTR from the intriguingly named Michigan-based tuning firm Specter Werkes (don't you just hate it when you just keep picking ‘E's out of the Scrabble bag?).
Visually, the C6 GTR looks spookily like the bastard offspring of a Z06 and a Mitsubishi EVO X, and it boasts the sort of performance you'd expect from such a devilish progeny.
Corvette's 7.0-litre ‘LS7' V8 has been stoked up to a mighty 596kW, all channelling to the road through those carbon fibre rear wheels.
Specter Werkes is yet to release performance figures, but we reckon the GTR (original choice of name by the way, guys) could show the supercharged Corvette ZR1 a clean pair of hilariously oversized exhausts in a straight line.
Speaking of exhausts, do the GTR's pipes remind you just a little bit of Darth Vader's chin? No? Just us?
Now watch Clarkson thrash the Z06 back in 2006:
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Looks more like Zorg's face from Toy Story than Darth Vader
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OMG that there is the wildest ever tuned Corvette. Got a problem with that? Deal with it. And I agree, why one earth does Jeremy do those '0-170mph-in-one-gear' things? If I did that, in a time frame of 2 minutes, I'd be abused by the traffic behind for going too slow and then arrested by the cops for going too fast.
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at 03:18 am on 02 November 2009
Any Corvette made after 1971 is crap! Usually owned (leased h/p) by owners of used car yards and wreckers! or 35y/olds that still live with Mummy-ultimate d/heads car And why does Jeremy insist on doing those stupid Oh itll go to 170mph in one gear things..So What..
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