22 May 2009 - 11:00
Nuclear power
Some cars are delicate, subtle instruments. Surgeons' scalpels, if you will. Some cars are 12-pound lump hammers. Now, which category do you think the Geiger Corvette falls into?
Ignore, if you can, that retina-melting lime green paintjob (which, we have to confess, we actually rather like). Focus instead on what's lurking under that louvred hood.
Geiger - the German pioneers responsible for the Martini-themed Hummer and the torquetastic Ford F-650 pickup - has taken the Corvette Z06's shabby 500bhp 7.0-litre V8 and bored it out to a far heathlier 7.6 litres. Oh, and added a pair of fat turbos for good measure.
The result? 890bhp and 694lb ft of torque. And the sort of acceleration more commonly associated with ground-to-air missiles.
Wisely, Geiger has beefed up the Vette's drivertrain to cope with all that power. There's now a heavy-duty, twin-disc clutch and a carbon fibre driveshaft. We're happy to hear that it gets adjustable coilover springs and bigger brakes, too.
And no true tuning job would be complete with a set of a giant wheels and a big body kit. Those big holes in the hood are fuctional, by the way: according to the Geiger press release, 'they guard against thermal indispositions of the turbo engine.'
Beware those thermal indispositions...
Now watch Clarkson thrash the Z06 back in 2006:
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The Hummer and Ford are terrible, but this is not. The colour is pretty terrible, but the Corvette isn't exactly a low-profile car anyway. Give them a Viper, see what they can make out it.
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BEAST thats all i have to say
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this thing could kill anything out there unless they do a viper next or something. but lime green? maybe red but not lime. Lime Green basically says "Pull ME over! PLEASE!!!"
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kriptonite green! that looks really good! and my god it must fly. though superman couldnt own one
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so in the video of the Z06, why does the speedo go up to 320mph? It says "MPH" on the dial, so i assume its not KPH
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how the hell dd they fit 7.6 litres of engine and a pair of turbos in a place that fits 7 litres. this is the first green car that is not green to the environment
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speed-king, I've seen an LS7 in person. The engine itself isn't that big (I mean in overall size, of course, not displacement) so there's a lot of room under the hood to work on it. As for the speedo, I can only guess that you can switch between kph and mph. 320 kph would be about 200 mph.
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The only ones who need be afraid of that clown car are the rear tyres...
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Great choice of car, not a great choice of paint. Come on, if you are going to make this corvette better than the original, try to make it look better as well.
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890bph now that is a car!!!!!!?
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890bhp from a big, twin turbo V8, and it's green enough for the eco-idiots not to complain. Great car!
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It's a corvette and that says it. It is RUBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH bloody hell those freakin' idiots they really have got a severe taste. No comment on the other creations of geiger. Or maybe... just a word: WHY?
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JamesDunham must be the new Jeremy Clarkson - i.e. taking the piss out of americans. the corvette is a good car. and this new thing will prove that
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890 bhp, that's 10 less tha a formula 1 car. but when is somone gonna tune the ssc ultimate aero
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It makes a ZR1 seem pointless. Why don't Corvette make a car like this. You should give them a ZR1 though. It would be good how they tune that one.
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Does anyone still wants the Mantide now?
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vietamesestig, actually, it used to be 10 less than an F1 car. With the V8 engines, the Formula One cars put out about 750hp, which means, that this Vette is quite a bit more powerfull (but also over twice as heavy)
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Well it's a delicate, subtle instrument of course, full of the precision of going around careful degrees of corners.... duh. Oh but my God it looks brilliant in bright green.
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890 HP that is very much. I think the topspeed is over 210 MPH. A great car
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Haven't you heard about the swede with his Corvette Z06 with 1280 bhp! That's power
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890 BHP? de top speed wud probably b 225mph-240mph buh wot geiger dd 2 de ford pik up truck woz alryt
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looks like something you woulg get out of the 'fast and furious'. But I love the paint job and 850bhp! whooooooooooooo
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looks like something you would get out of the 'fast and furious'. But I love the paint job and 850bhp! whooooooooooooo
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This car is awesome... If you want it, its for sale: http://www.autoscout24.de/Details.aspx?id=vpeofuifpghm
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Jesus!!!....or maybe "Green Fire"
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A Typical American car, looks very nice, has enough power to spin the earth but can't go around corners, But seeing as its a german car it might just go around corners or might decide it has enough power to launch a war on the rest of the world, again!
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For once the germans have done something amazing!!!!!!!! Look out Koenigsegg
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kingrocky commented on this article
22 May 2009
This car is just WOOOOOW! Don't you think? 890bhp and 694lb ft of torque. Is this not just phenomenal?
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