Drag Race: XKR vs. Corvette
 

Sorry, the video quality is horrendous, but you can still see what happens.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2evhAzhuYM

Wow..I honestly thought it was going to be the exact opposite

DEEEEEEER what happend sam?I saw the xkr take off ..in the lead and i assume it won..but its not cleare at the end:icon_confused:

Yeah, the XKR won.

I assume that whoever was driving the Corvette didn't know how to drive. It looks like that was a C-5 which supposedly had a bit more power than my 1995 C-4. But my XKR feels like a massive lug compared with my 1995 Corvette.

Doug

Yeah, I think the vette lost traction at the start, and from that point forward he just couldn't catch up.

hard to tell but it looked like 14.8 for the XKR and 15.5 (or maybe 16.5) seconds for the 'vette.

I never dragged the Corvette but I am pretty sure the numbers I had always seen posted for late C4 and early C5 models was always in the 13-13.5 second range for the 1/4-mile purely stock out-of-the-box.

Doug

Driver malfunction.

Stock for stock, an XK is no match for a vette.

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I think they both had pretty poor times. I'm wondering if the track couldn't hold them.

These 14 and 15 second quarters are not too impressive. There are some hot econoboxes out there that'd eat those two cars up.

More interesting races are on UTube where M5BOARDDOTCOM takes high line cars and runs them head to head starting at maybe 25mph and letting off at maybe 150 mph. They put a camera in one of the cars, filming the other car. I pulled it up by ordering "Jaguar XKR versus Mercedes."

The series is showing a new 510 hp XKR coupe running against a bunch of european Supercars. They also raced a XJR.

A Jag XJR ran against a Mercedes S63, and the Jag embarrassed the Merc.
They then ran a Jag XKR against a Mercedes SL600 biturbo, and the smaller Merc barely had them on top end. Mostly even.
The XKR absolutely embarrassed an Audi R8 with the V10 motor.
The XKR ran all over a BMW M3 DKG.
The XKR tore up a Porsche 911 Turbo model 997.
When they ran against a Nissan GT-R, they finally met their match. The car is absolutely incredible--and relatively affordable.

That new model is a different animal than my 99 XK8.

Very well could be. Some owners will turn off the t/c....which is fine if you have some practice/experience under your belt and can get a clean launch.

If you're a novice at the strip it's easy to get excited and over-enthusiastic with the throttle :-)


Cheers
DD

Any Corvette outside those 220hp slugs built between 1975 and 1989 should be running at least low 14's and downward. Any decent low end C5 should run along with the XKR in a 1/4 mile. The Z06 is faster, and of course the ZR-1's (old and new) are faster yet. The XKR is no slouch for sure, but neither the vette or the xkr are drag cars. As a former ZR-1 owner for almost 10 years I can tell you that those cars were pretty good in the 1/4, but that's not where they were exceptional. It's when you cruise at 175 or dabble at 195+ that made them impressive. I suspect the XKR is really in fine form at speed, and not necessarily trying to kill the drive train getting there.

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It was a beast for sure, but these days I'd take an XKR in a "heartbeat" (sorry, Chevy). ;)

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Horsepower has gone nutz over the last few years. When I bought my 1995 Corvette it had 300hp and that number was almost mystical at the time. There were really only a couple of semi-mainstream exotics (is that an oxymoron?) that had 400hp (ZR-1, Viper) and those were well beyond the normal reach of most folks.

These days 300hp is common in many mainstream 4 door sedans and 400hp is the new 300hp.


Doug

I know what you mean. The 1984 Mustang GT only got 165 horsepower out of a 5.0 liter engine. And it was considered a fast car!

But tire technology must have improved along with engine technology, because it was easy to smoke the tires on my friend's 84 Mustang GT. Now, with nearly 300 HP and Continental DWS's, I have trouble spinning the tires in my XK8 on dry pavement (And yes, I turned off the traction control).

You also have to consider the near instant torque of the 5.0 (mine had around 200 HP/300 ft-lbs torque with a few mods to the non-HO 5.0 in my old Cougar, stock was 150 HP and the HO in the Mustang that year was 225 HP) and the low weight of Fords Fox body platform. That, coupled with an open differential and skinny 215mm width all season tires made it easy to light it up.

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The Jag was able to put all the power down and especially with all that torque. The Corvette couldn't put the power down properly.

No No No!!!!!! The driver of the Vette was asleep at the wheel, I heard him snoring. ZZZZZZZ

I raced an XKR with my 1995 corvette before I had to sell it (I had a re worked computer, throttle body, intake, injectors, roller rockers and trans-kit which = his super chargers) and he never knew what hit him!

I'll bet the driver took traction control off and did not know how to launch the car properly, lost traction and did not know how to get off it to let the tires grab in time.

In my opinion, a base 2000 up Vette will get by any stock Jag on the road and the Z06 will eat a jag XKR for lunch.

I like XK8's & R's but a good driver behind the wheel of a good running late model Vette (not to mention Z06) should be able to beat an XKR all day long.

The real advantage that the Corvette has over any Jaguar is much lighter weight. I believe my 1995 Corvette was somewhere in the neighborhood of 3400 pounds while the XK8/XKR are pushing 4000 pound in convertible form.

I found out it is not all that easy to be the fastest guy on the street. Especially when someone in one of those Asian rice-cookers like a Suburu WRX with some cheap tweaks could blow by most expensive muscle cars at a fraction of the cost.

I just feel good cruising along in my Jaguar and getting all the admiring looks even it is is a real mild driver by today's standards.


Doug

I dunno, Sam. That car looked too much like either you or H20Boy, which makes the win even better with a non-boosted engine!;)