A ticket to the 2008 Detroit Auto Show: $12
A 2009 Chevy Corvette ZR: $100,000.
Looking at a naked ZR1 standing on end at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show: Priceless.
This is cool. What a way to see the most powerful Corvette ever made... Highlights? How about an aluminum frame that weighs just 285 pounds, twin fuel tanks, a magnesium engine cradle, an aluminum rear suspension cradle, a magnesium steering column bracket and aluminum brake pedals. Here's something I didn't know. The ZR1 has asymmetric half-shafts. One is a larger diameter than the other.
I could look at this thing for hours, but I'm expected at the press conference for the Geely FC, which probably doesn't have a magnesium engine cradle. But then again, it probably doesn't have leaf springs either. -- Scott Oldham, Inside Line Editor in Chief
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"The ZR1 has asymmetric half-shafts. The one of the right is 33mm long, while the one on the left measures 40mm."
To reduce wheelhop and promote traction?
^ That's astoundingly short. Am I reading that right?
Are you sure that isn't cm, not mm? For the metric challenged, 33 mm is just over an inch.
Whats a half-shaft?
just wondering...
I think he meant thick...
Each half shaft connects the rear differential to each wheel hub. That in turn connects to the driveshaft, which goes up to the trans, then finally to the engine.
I love cut-aways so I would have passed on the Geely press conference to see that as well.