Maverick is faster than a C5 Corvette

[Aerohead]

Found this article interesting.
https://www.thedrive.com/news/this-...-than-a-c5-chevy-corvette-in-the-quarter-mile

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[Scupking]

It’s crazy to think my hybrid maverick isn’t much slower than my old 2001 mustang gt..

 

[S. fisher]

So a “modified“maverick manages to run in the high twelves beating a stock C 5 vette. Of course you could modify and turbo charge that LS1 in the vette and get it to run tens. If they compared the “modified“maverick with the Z06 version of the C5 w/ the LS6 which bone stock ran in the 11’s, old LEWIN DAY wouldn’t have been paid for that drivel.

 

[Guv]

It’s crazy to think my hybrid maverick isn’t much slower than my old 2001 mustang gt..

A 2001 GT is a low 14 car, your hybrid a mid to high 15. Not much of a race. A modified EB would a different story.

 

[Maverickman74]

So the corvette could outrun the maverick until 1962 but that only lasted 11 years until 1973. Then it was 1987 before it could muster enough speed to outpace the maverick. Anoth interesting fact it was as late as 1996 before a base corvette could make a 0.5 second gap on the maverick.

 

[TedTX]

Hybrid Maverick can out run a hybrid BMW with acceleration while in eco mode! And man was she pissed!!
Driving the hilly curves of a well paved rural road. I had a gleaming gorgeous white BMW tailgate me like she was on the Autobahn. Inches from my back bumper.
I stayed at posted speeds and used all the quirks of a hybrid to mess with her like deaccelerating with out breaking. Late turning because Maverick can hug the road better than her wider BMW etc.
So I figured she wants to drive fast lets she her reaction to a rapid acceleration a hybrid can do from 35 to 85+
So I do a ramped acceleration, not a rapid quick bump in acceleration but a constant increase in acceleration.
She didn’t catch that I was pulling away until I was 10 or more car lengths away. And she tried to get back behind me. But could not. Eco mode was limiting the rate of increasing acceleration but just as she floored it the eco mode pedal position kicked it into passing mode. So I got a late bump in acceleration and continued to pull farther away has she was trying to close the gap.
Well North of 80 I have to drop down to posted speeds for a tiny speed trapped town city limits sign. Eco mode kicks back-in and I am rapidly in strong regen mode ( ie no brake lights ) with foot off the gas.
She finally caught up to me in a no pass zone and two slower speeds signs later we are back at 35mph.
After a few miles she picks up a tailgater of her own a lifted F250 dually with those elephant ear like telescoping side mirrors for towing. He is weaving back and forth like a race track driver warming up his wheels before the race begins.
She rightly got a bad taste of her own medicine and she finally dropped back. She was trying to create a gap between me and her so the large truck would pass her and tailgate me instead but I purposely kept her gap smaller than someone would try passing into to avoid that. Traffic was going 15mph slower than posted speeds now.
It was about 8 miles til the road entered a different small but growing town that had widen the road to three lanes and allowed slower traffic to move to the right.
I was going to cut through the town itself to visit is small but normally well staffed Walmart on my way home.
She floored her BMW but I got to see the hybrid label on its backside. As she was wildly passing other traffic well over posted speeds.

 

[Peps]

Hybrid Maverick can out run a hybrid BMW with acceleration while in eco mode! And man was she pissed!!
Driving the hilly curves of a well paved rural road. I had a gleaming gorgeous white BMW tailgate me like she was on the Autobahn. Inches from my back bumper.
I stayed at posted speeds and used all the quirks of a hybrid to mess with her like deaccelerating with out breaking. Late turning because Maverick can hug the road better than her wider BMW etc.
So I figured she wants to drive fast lets she her reaction to a rapid acceleration a hybrid can do from 35 to 85+
So I do a ramped acceleration, not a rapid quick bump in acceleration but a constant increase in acceleration.
She didn’t catch that I was pulling away until I was 10 or more car lengths away. And she tried to get back behind me. But could not. Eco mode was limiting the rate of increasing acceleration but just as she floored it the eco mode pedal position kicked it into passing mode. So I got a late bump in acceleration and continued to pull farther away has she was trying to close the gap.
Well North of 80 I have to drop down to posted speeds for a tiny speed trapped town city limits sign. Eco mode kicks back-in and I am rapidly in strong regen mode ( ie no brake lights ) with foot off the gas.
She finally caught up to me in a no pass zone and two slower speeds signs later we are back at 35mph.
After a few miles she picks up a tailgater of her own a lifted F250 dually with those elephant ear like telescoping side mirrors for towing. He is weaving back and forth like a race track driver warming up his wheels before the race begins.
She rightly got a bad taste of her own medicine and she finally dropped back. She was trying to create a gap between me and her so the large truck would pass her and tailgate me instead but I purposely kept her gap smaller than someone would try passing into to avoid that. Traffic was going 15mph slower than posted speeds now.
It was about 8 miles til the road entered a different small but growing town that had widen the road to three lanes and allowed slower traffic to move to the right.
I was going to cut through the town itself to visit is small but normally well staffed Walmart on my way home.
She floored her BMW but I got to see the hybrid label on its backside. As she was wildly passing other traffic well over posted speeds.

You could have just let the BMW pass much earlier without trying to prove anything. That’s how accidents happen.

 

[TedTX]

Nope I was doing her a favor. That road is dangerous at posted speed. The nature of the road doesn’t allow anyone to move out of lane in any direction. Deep drop off of over 15 feet on its left side. No where to pull off to right due to road height differences with possible damage to cars unside on exit and blown tire if you try to cut back onto road. The road caused a bad drainage problems and they fix it by elevating the road base. She didn’t pass me because she couldn’t safely see on coming traffic can only be seen as it reached the top of the ridge or after they pass sharp 90 degree turn leading up to the base of the series of ridges going along a river and its bridge.
For safety reasons the entire part of the road for 10miles leading up the fun curves and hills is no pass zone. Parts of Texas is famous for its flash floods. This is where rain gets concentrated by rows of long ridges that drop off all at once to the left of this road. The near by part of I 10 has made the national news because of the many mile wide rivers flooding I 10 that sometimes occur due to this natural arrangement.

 

[TedTX]

To be clear or to clarify better I didn’t keep her from passing or driving slow to piss her off. It was road conditions and on coming traffic and slow traffic ahead of me. I was not choosing to have to be slow because of sheriffs directing traffic or the line of cars and trucks traveling 15mph under the speed limit. With persistent on coming traffic.
Just that when we could safely with a straight part of the road open it up. I did she started late to the race and then that part of the road was over.

 

[Guv]

So the corvette could outrun the maverick until 1962 but that only lasted 11 years until 1973. Then it was 1987 before it could muster enough speed to outpace the maverick. Anoth interesting fact it was as late as 1996 before a base corvette could make a 0.5 second gap on the maverick.

This is a ridiculous argument!
How about this, line up Mavericks and Corvettes from the Same Year.
When do these dumb comparisons end?
If you really want to make the Corvette look bad, pick a 53-54 Blue Flame six as your whipping boy. Even a hybrid Mav would give it a trouncing, what would be the point….

 

[Maverickman74]

This is a ridiculous argument!
How about this, line up Mavericks and Corvettes from the Same Year.
When do these dumb comparisons end?
If you really want to make the Corvette look bad, pick a 53-54 Blue Flame six as your whipping boy. Even a hybrid Mav would give it a trouncing, what would be the point….

Sorry I just fixed my post. I meant to say it couldnt outrun a maverick until 1962. I made that post after a 15 hour day.

Its just a funny thought to think of things we think are fast and compare them to a cheap economy truck. The same comparisons are occasionally done with priuses and "muscle cars". Its just times a changing.

Also we are bored waiting on our Mavericks.

 

[Johnkn]

Comparing a Maverick to a Gen5 Corvette is an insult to the Maverick


.

 

[GPSMan]

This is a ridiculous argument!
How about this, line up Mavericks and Corvettes from the Same Year.
When do these dumb comparisons end?
If you really want to make the Corvette look bad, pick a 53-54 Blue Flame six as your whipping boy. Even a hybrid Mav would give it a trouncing, what would be the point….

I beat a kid on a bike the other day, but it was neck and neck for zero to 5 mph.

 

[Maverickman74]

Ok hear me out. The mavericks drivetrain and awd is something to behold. What if a computer wizard and a competent fabricator got together and put and awd mavericks entire drivetrain, with the upgrades and maybe that promised corsair turbo, into a 80s Merkur or fox body anything, or even a Escort. Subframes can be fabricated for anything. Just imagine if this turbo with sophisticated awd was in a 2600lb car. Even better with the RS 6spd so the turbo can be fully cranked.

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