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Originally Posted by DarkSunrise
Yeah certainly a nice upgrade to the C6, but seeing that 3444 lbs figure made me do a double-take. I thought I had read somewhere that the C7s would save weight, not gain it.
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The aluminum chassis is much lighter. But as has been said, all the interior upgrades, the DI system, and all the other new features added weight back. If not for the aluminum chassis, it would have been a very heavy car (for a corvette anyway). This is the problem with sports cars in this age; between the current safety requirements (that are only increasing) and the demands for the interior quality, you're just not going to get much lighter. That's why Chevy has to make something like the new Z/28 Camaro where they strip all that crap off to save weight, then throw a bigger engine in (because...racecar).
I am anxious to see what do with the Z06 model of the C7, if it's even called that.