I wonder if they plan to sue Uber, or what is Uber’s policy (if any) in regards to any possible compensation to the passengers.

I think this is the car you are thinking of. The guy who let this car was a water engineer in Half Moon Bay, CA. Someone tracked him down from the Harlequin registry and an article in SF Gate. Word was he let the car go to the yard because it wouldn’t pass emmissions, and was ticked that someone had tracked him down…

I’m not a VW fan by any means, but I loved reading this. There’s nothing quite like a good car story, I think anybody with a love for cars can appreciate this noble quest. And seeing the car community come together to help this guy out is rad.

i had no idea. there’s an engineer from the norcal coast who drives one and we all thought he was just really eccentric and liked mismatching colors. in fact, his attire was often harlequined

These things sold so poorly new Jim Ellis VW in Atlanta Took 4 apart and made them single color cars to get them off their lot. I had a sales weasel when they were new try to sell me one because “They were popular in Europe and would show your sophistication”

Spot on, the last gt500 used a larger tvs supercharger than the Z06. The hood isn’t the only reason for the undersized blower and intercooler. The ls/lt has a narrow valley compared to its cross town rival, so there is less room for a supercharger and the associated plumbing. GM over spinning small superchargers has…

Used to be that I’d hand-crank a little thingamajigger at the base of my radiator just to start my horseless carridge’s engine, due to the lack of an electric starter.

Used to be that driving Corvettes with the top down nude through car washes on hot summer days

I’ve heard tell that the problem is the supercharger it’s self. It’s undersized to fit that low hood line, but it’s overspun to hit the hp goals. So it’s driving the intake temps through the roof (or cylinder head) and the and cooling system can’t even..

A lot of them did. Big radiators, secondary radiators, relocated heat exchangers, cutting holes in the front bumper. Both LG Motorsports and Katech, kings of the GM tuning world, have Z06 cooling solutions that involve cutting up the front bumper.

It used to be GM did not sell cars sold as track ready.

Because the powers that be aka the accounting department determined that the “easy” fix was too costly. Just because they are a mega-company does not excuse them from being capable of bad designs.

Well, my point is, people like to spend money on a new car on upgrades, not fixes. Example: new exhaust and wheels- immediately rewarding, improving the individuality and performance of the car.

Why should you have to spend more money on top of what you spent on the car for an upgrade when the car shouldn’t be overheating in the first place?

I’d be pretty pissed if I paid +$80k for a supercar (Chevrolet’s branding, not mine) that touts its track credentials (there are 6 mentions of the word “track” on the Z06 web page), and the thing went in to limp mode after 15 minutes of track duty.

Used to be that driving Corvettes with the top down nude through car washes on hot summer days was just a fun time, not jail time.

Cooling systems are fairly simple? This is a highly engineered forced induction performance machine, I’m not sure how you determined that this is a simple fix? How could it be that the best engineers working for a multi-billion dollar automotive company cannot seem to figure out the “simple” fix?

The distinction here is it’s not a performance upgrade that’s needed, it’s a core problem with the car.

Used to be the Corvette Z06 had a manual transmission and not a supercharger.

If that is the only indication to you that “times are a changin” you haven’t been paying attention.