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What will win in a drag race between a Corvette Z06? Or should that be Z06 and the new Porsche 911 GT3? Well, we're going to find out 'cause I'm going to race them over the standing quarter mile. I'm Watson and you're watching Car Wow.
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The Chevrolet Corvette Z06 has a 5.5 L naturally aspirated V8 that puts out 646 horsepower and 595 newton meters of torque. It drives the rear wheels via an 8-speed dual clutch automatic gearbox with launch control. The car weighs in at 1,714 kg and costs from £182,920. However, this car has a Z07 track pack which includes carbon wheels, carbon ceramic brakes, bespoke Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R tires and larger carbon fiber aero parts. As a result, the total cost comes to £202,894. And FYI, this is how much St. Louis cost in America.
The Porsche 911 GT3 has a 4 L naturally aspirated flat-6 engine with 510 horsepower and 450 newton meters of torque that drives the rear wheels via a 7-speed dual clutch automatic gearbox with launch control. The Porsche weighs 1,479 kg and costs from £158,200. This car though, with options, is £173,000.
Yanni, I think we've got this the wrong way round. I should be in the German car and you should be in a bright yellow, loud American car. I would agree with you, but this car belongs to Bab, who's my business partner on Yianni's Grand Tour. And the only reason he allowed you guys to borrow it is if I drove it, so that's why I'm in it. Sorry. Has Bab watched you drive and has he watched me drive? He knows I'm the more careful driver. It is at more risk in your hands. And I'm the Porsche guy, right? I make you right. I don't know what to say to that. I make you right. That is right.
Um, listen, I've got 150 horsepower more than you. This car's heavier. People are going to think this is a setup that I chose because I wanted to drive the Porsche, right? But I've got to drive this one. And this is going to destroy that Porsche, isn't it? I don't know if you're going to get off the line, though. This should get off the line really well. Porsches are renowned. I think that Corvette's going to be bogging down there. I don't know about bogging, but I think it's going to be spinning. So, this is on Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, and it's quite cold, and they're not warm. Rear-engined, so you can really put the power down. I tell you what's going to be fun. I reckon to give you a chance, we should start off the drag races just with cold tires. Got the people from GM over there who brought the car down and they've been specifically told to make sure the tires are warm. They show me how to do rolling burnouts. They've told me they've got some tire warmers. I'm going to ignore all that. Let's just go in cold. They've got tire warmers. What is this? Formula 1. And is it true? Is that car over 200 grand? Yeah. So, it's like £28,000 or something with all the equipment on it. So, for the first time ever, the Porsche 911 GT3 looks cheap. You're not wrong. Like, wow. I can't believe the price of that. That's the price in the UK after like import duties and tariffs and stuff like that. In the USA, this is how much this car would cost. So, significantly cheaper. And then it's a bit of a bargain compared to that Porsche.
Let's do a sound check first. Right. You rev up your Porsche. I'm sure you've got a soft limiter, but there is a little bit of a hack, isn't there, to get around it. So, see if you know how to do it. Was it put it in gear? Softly made, buddy. There we go. That sounds sweet. Bit of a soft limiter, but it still sounds sweet. But if you think that's a bad soft limiter by the over-regulated Germans, check out what you would imagine would be the under-regulated Americans.
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You're not even hearing that, are you? Mate, I can't hear anything. That's ridiculous. And I've opened the window as well. Yeah, this is like a 5.5 L naturally aspirated V8 with a flat-plane crank. So, like a Ferrari and nothing. I'm going to try and put it into launch. See if it can do the cheat like you did. So, drive. Press that. Better. That was better. But I can't do it more than once 'cause it might just destroy the dual clutches. Okay, so that's that done. Shall we just get into the race? Let's. Let's just do it. Let's go.
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Hey, Yanni, I found another hack for the noise. Listen to this now. Pull up on both pedals. It disengages the clutches and then I... More like it. Yeah. Drill, baby, drill. Can we race now, mate? I can hear you. Well done. I'm proud of you. All right. Fafage. Now, my concern about this is I've never launched this car before. I've got the traction control off. What I don't know, though, is the delay when I lift off the accelerator. In the Porsche, it's a bit of a delay. Yanni's used to that now. I have no idea what it is on this one. Let's just see what happens. 3, 2, 1. Going nowhere. Oh, wow.
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That was mad.
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Oh, he's going to win this one. Or is he? It's close. It's close. It's close. Come on. Get together. Get again. Again. Get it.
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I had traction issues like crazy off the line, but I'm assuming you did too. Yeah, I was spinning up a lot, which surprised me. There's a smell of tires now in this car. Um, okay. I don't know who won. I have no idea. Me. You're 1 mil. No, but you always say me, even if you're like clearly behind. Are you sure? It was so close. It was not close, mate. Honestly, when you watch this back, you're going to see be like, "Oh, wow." Okay, then. I wasn't paying attention. Okay, I'll give you that. Let's go again. Best um some out of some. 'Cause I wanted to play at least with with my tires warm. Okay, let's go. Let's go again. I knew that's why you didn't want to do two out of three 'cause you knew you'd lose. Let's warm the tires.
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That should be a bit better now. Smoking. Do you need fire, police, or ambulance? Um, I'm actually okay. I was just um driving the car around. Who are you anyway? Thank you. Go to the emergency operator. Oh, why? You don't have an emergency. I'll clear the line for you. You've pressed the SOS button in your car. No, I didn't. I'll clear the line for you if you don't have an emergency. No. The Does it Does the car automatically like warn you if if it thinks I've fire, police, or ambulance? Oh, sorry. Nothing. No. Bye. Thanks for your help anyway. Thank you. Okay. Right. Clearly, the car thought I had an accident and so it automatically called the emergency services, which is obviously not for pissing around and I can understand that based on the job she does. The SOS button is up there. Definitely didn't press that even though I was flailing around with the steering wheel. So that's handy, isn't it? So if you spin off the road, it'll automatically call the emergency services for you. Let's move on. Do another drag race. 3, 2, 1. Come on now.
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I think I might have jumped.
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Down and jumped.
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Hi. Are you all right, Yanni? How do you feel about that? Just can't get off. You can't get off. Oh, he's mad. Yeah, just don't know. Just won't won't let me pull away fast enough. Do you need to warm your tires up a little bit or does it need the Porsche wants me to drive it? That's the problem. I'm surprised you haven't said something. What should you be saying right now? I don't know. What should I be saying right now? I think you're too like lost in your terrible launch that you probably didn't realize that I might have jumped. Do you know what? I didn't even notice that. I was too busy. Yeah. Can we find out if Matt's jumped, please? I'm just checking, but we don't think he did. No. Well, they're checking. Check out this new car merch. Look, you can get it. Link in the description. Click on things on the screen. There's a carousel. There was no jump. No jump. Anyway, that's from our Holy Trinity drag race. Good water bottle, too. Cheers, Yanni. Okay, Yanni, I think you need to warm up your tires. Maybe just drive up and down there a bit. Um, few launches. Launch it with stability control off to get some heat into the tires.
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See, that launched amazing then. That seemed a whole lot better. How weird is that? My tires are nice and warm now, Matt. I'm going to make mine even warmer. Rolling burnout. Yeah. Put into manual mode. Yeah. Double clutch. Yeah. Foot hard on the brake. Hard on the throttle. Yeah. And you should be able to just slip the clutch and it should should just slip itself. Okay. So, just give it some of that rolling burnout. You ready? I'd move away. Well, it's not a rolling burnout at all. That was a a pile of Let's try again. No idea. I've got a better idea. Come out of that. Come out of that. Turn it all off. Find the brake. Pull up on the paddles. Do that. Dump the clutch. Um, now, now quickly. Let's go. Let's go. My tires will walk. Yeah. Save, save, save. Give me the right settings. There we go. 3, 2, 1.
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No. What? No. Didn't change. Get up. No. Come on. No. Better. Come on. Come on.
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Warm tires make all the difference, my friend. Let's um do one more race. Let's do it, bro. This is the decider. The decider? I'm sure it's 2-1, but okay, we'll do the decider. It's fine. Let's just say that the first race was a draw. We can't let the car down, right? Otherwise, we'll have everyone who supports Corvette and Americans in the comments go, "Matt, get Matt out the car. Terrible driver. Didn't change gear. Should have won." This is why I'm doing this. He thinks he's in with a chance and he's not. He can't be. Three, two, one. No, we did it again. Got him. Got him. I left it in.
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Got him.
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It's because my merch is in the way. I can't see the button. Buy the merch so that I don't have any of it and then I can't a bloody drag racing. I don't know what to say. Please, can I just have one more go? Just please, please, please, please, please be kind. I'll explain why in a bit. Before you spoke, I was like, here come the book of excuses. I'll give you one more go, but this is the final one. I don't want to hear nothing else after this. Deal. Deal. Get into bloody drive. Just don't mess around with anything now. Tires are warm enough. You don't need to about Watson. You're going to win. It's going to win. He was so far ahead. He was going to win. What a 3, 2, 1.
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That's it. It's over. I got him again.
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Yeah, I knew it. Oh, no. No.
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Yeah.
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Now, seeing as you let me had loads of other goes, if you want to have more goes, you're quite welcome to. I'll be honest, we've done that many drag races now. I think he just let the public decide and do the thing. Just who knows anymore. Yeah, he doesn't know about the the cocked-up gear. You know about it. It did it properly then. Anyway, here's the thing. So then what exactly happened? Well, the Corvette won. It completed the standing quarter mile in 11.1 seconds. The Porsche took 11.3 seconds.
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Now, back to the race. All right, now we're going with a rolling race. We're going to do it in normal mode. Car's in automatic. We're going to race it over the half mile. See which car is the quickest. So, I'm going to count this in. Um, before I do though, if you're after a performance car, but a bit more reasonable price on this, I've found some great deals on some through our leasing agent, Car Wow Leasing. Okay, if you want to find out what the monthlys are on the cars and what the cars are exactly, click on the pop-out there or scan the QR code on screen now. Sorry, you had to listen to that Yanni on the walkie-talkie. I forgot to release the button. But anyway, should we get into this rolling race? I'm ready. Three, two, one, go. Kick down quicker.
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He's going.
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These are both high-revving cars. I thought this would be pulling past, but it's not. Can I pull it back in?
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No. No. No. No. I actually thought that 'cause I have like 150 more horsepower than you, I was going to just reel you back in, but it wasn't to me. It actually surprised me as well. You didn't seem to have any kick-down at all and no movement. So, yeah, I'm surprised. Let's do a rolling race in sport setting, manual mode. It could be a different story this time. I hope so. Should I go in sport or track? You go in whichever mode you think is going to make you the fastest, Yanni, you decide. Let's play a little game before we race. I'm going to count to three and then you've got to say which car looks the best. Don't do it on the radio, just do it to camera. Okay. One, two, three. Porsche. Porsche GT3. Easy. Uh, now I'm going to do the same thing again, but this time say which car you would rather own. Don't worry about not the price of them or anything like that. One, two, three. Porsche GT3 again. Don't know what you said. Anyway, should we race? I look forward to seeing the edit to find out what you said. Third gear roll-on, manual mode. Let's do this one. Three, two, one, go. Come on, you bugger.
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No, that Porsche is doing it. Oh, the baby.
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Come on. Come on, Fit. Got him. He's gaining, but come on. Rev it out. Rev it out. Rev it out. Who's the Porsche bloody winning? So, I think a German 510 horsepower meets with an American 650 horsepower. Somewhere in the middle. One comes down and one goes up. Listen, the Americans and the British, there's always a different even with shoe size. 'Cause their size 11 is our size 10. Same with horsepower. Having said that though, their gallon is smaller than our gallon for some reason. I don't know about gallons, but I don't know what to say. Do you remember gallons when you first started driving and it was like it was what was it £4 a gallon or something? I've got no idea. I don't know about gallons or liters or anything else what it costs. I just fill it up. Money is no object. Right. Anyway, um, yeah, you won, didn't you? I didn't I really didn't expect that. This car feels really nice. The fact it's just a normal GT3. It's nice. It's special and it's new. So, yeah. Fair play. Let's just do the same thing again in second gear roll-on. I'm feeling like slightly lacking in victories here. So, on another go. I'm also slightly frightened of Donald Trump like banning me from the USA for making America look. I think I need to do a better job 'cause I would like to go back there soon. This is not making any sense to me. I thought that this might not win the drag race 'cause it wouldn't launch and hook up, but it might come past 'cause it has more power. But it actually hooked up better than the Porsche in the launch. And yet in the roll, it seems slower. Absolutely clueless. Second gear, 50 mph. Let's see what happens this time. 3, 2, 1, go. Come on. I got this. Great gear change.
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Ah.
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Heat.
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Uh, what the hell happened that time, Yanni? Did he drop a miss a gear or something? Yeah, I'm screaming on second gear at 50 mph. Uh, really? I'm like at six and a half thousand RPM. Surely you're about the same. No. Yeah, but it's still screaming though. It's like there's not much to go. There is. It's like 3,000 RPM. Anyway, you lost. Let's do a brake test. Yeah, but I won the previous one, so however you want to do it. Second gear, you win. In third gear, I win. Brake test. We know I'm going to win. And I'm not doing no flappy paddle like Sam.
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Okay. I'm not sure that you will, but then I am pathetic at braking. So, who knows? Let's go quite close together and be more romantic. I got nice big calves and you got little weeny calves. You know, with the advantage of big calves, you start having a heart attack. What you need to do is just flex your feet like that and you can use your calves to pump the blood around your body. Keep it alive. Is that a true story? No. Right, let's go. Let's do brake test. Now, if you'd rather watch another drag race with some Americans, click on the pop-out banner up there or scan the QR code on screen now. If not, stay here for this amazing brake test which I am sure to win. Come on. Jesus Christ. As expected. You can call me Notchamus 'cause I predict the future, my friends. Oh, right. Okay. Well done. Well predicted. I won though, didn't I? 'Cause I won the drag race. Yeah. Actually, let's talk about this brake test because that is a huge difference. Now, unless you cheated. I don't know what's going on there. Why have I always got to cheat to win on the brake test? I'm always good on the brake test. And the drag race, we're leaving it to the public. And the rolling race was 20 mph and 30 mph. So, it's actually like a 50/50 all the way through. Kind of is. I agree with you there. Let us know who you think really won the drag race. You've seen the whole thing. You know what happened. Let us know. Fight it out. It's going to be between Porsche fans and Corvette fans. Let's find out which is the most plentiful. Anyway, listen. Hope you enjoyed the video. If you did, give it a like. If you want to watch some other videos, click on the video windows. And if you want to see how these cars' qual times compare to everything else we've ever drag raced, just click on that car logo there to check out the Car Wow Drag Race leaderboard. Thank you very much for watching and I'll see you next.