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It’s time for a rear-wheel drive America vs Germany showdown!
We’ve got Mat in the Chevrolet Corvette Z06, and he’s going head-to-head against Yianni in the Porsche 911 GT3! So let’s see how these two superstars compare.
Starting with the Z06, it’s powered by a 5.5-litre naturally-aspirated V8 that produces 646hp and 595Nm of torque. Power is sent to the rear wheels only via an 8-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox, and the car weighs in at 1,714kg. The Z06 starts from £183,000, but due to this one having the Z07 Track Pack added to it, the cost is an eye-watering £209,000!
Then we come to the Porsche. It’s powered by a 4-litre naturally-aspirated flat-six, and this creates 510hp and 450Nm. Power is sent to the rear wheels via a 7-speed dual-clutch, and it weighs in at 1,479kg. New, the GT3 costs £158,000, but this car with options added comes in at £173,000.
So the Z06 may have much more power, but not only is the Porsche lighter, but they’re renowned for being lightning fast off the line! Will that prove enough to snatch the win? There’s only one way to find out for sure… LET’S RACE!
We’ve got Mat in the Chevrolet Corvette Z06, and he’s going head-to-head against Yianni in the Porsche 911 GT3! So let’s see how these two superstars compare.
Starting with the Z06, it’s powered by a 5.5-litre naturally-aspirated V8 that produces 646hp and 595Nm of torque. Power is sent to the rear wheels only via an 8-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox, and the car weighs in at 1,714kg. The Z06 starts from £183,000, but due to this one having the Z07 Track Pack added to it, the cost is an eye-watering £209,000!
Then we come to the Porsche. It’s powered by a 4-litre naturally-aspirated flat-six, and this creates 510hp and 450Nm. Power is sent to the rear wheels via a 7-speed dual-clutch, and it weighs in at 1,479kg. New, the GT3 costs £158,000, but this car with options added comes in at £173,000.
So the Z06 may have much more power, but not only is the Porsche lighter, but they’re renowned for being lightning fast off the line! Will that prove enough to snatch the win? There’s only one way to find out for sure… LET’S RACE!
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00:00What will we win in a drag race between a Corvette Z06, or should that be Z06, and the new Porsche 911 GT3?
00:08Well, we're going to find out because I'm going to race them over the standing quarter mile.
00:11I'm Matt Watson, and you're watching CarWay.
00:16The Chevrolet Corvette Z06 has a 5.5-litre naturally-aspirated V8 that puts out 646 horsepower and 595 newton-metres of torque.
00:25It drives the rear wheels via an 8-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox with launch control.
00:29The car weighs in at 1,714 kilograms and costs from £182,920.
00:36However, this car has a Z07 track pack, which includes carbon wheels, carbon ceramic brakes, bespoke Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R tyres, and larger carbon fibre aero parts.
00:45As a result, the total cost comes to £208,894, and FYI, this is how much the same car will cost in America.
00:52The Porsche 911 GT3 has a 4.0-litre naturally-aspirated flat-six engine with 510 horsepower and 450 newton-metres of torque.
01:01That drives the rear wheels via a 7-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox with launch control.
01:04The Porsche weighs 1,479 kilograms and costs from £158,200.
01:10This car, though, with options, is £173,000.
01:13Yanni, I think we've got this the wrong way round.
01:16I should be in the German car, and you should be in a bright, yellow, loud American car.
01:21I would agree with you, but this car belongs to Bab, who's my business partner, Yanni Ma's Grand Tour,
01:26and the only reason he allowed you guys to borrow it is if I drove it, so that's why I'm in it, sorry.
01:31Has Bab watched you drive, and has he watched me drive?
01:34He knows I'm the more careful driver.
01:36It is at more risk in your hands.
01:38And I'm the Porsche guy, right?
01:40I make you right.
01:41I don't know what to say to that.
01:43I make you right.
01:44That is right.
01:45Listen, I've got 150 horsepower more than you.
01:48This car's heavier.
01:49People are going to think this is a setup that I chose this car.
01:51I want to drive the Porsche, right, but I've got to drive this one.
01:54And this is going to destroy that Porsche, isn't it?
01:57I don't know if you're going to get off the line, though.
01:59This should get off the line really well.
02:00Porsches are renowned.
02:01I think that Corvette's going to be bogging down there.
02:04I don't know about bogging, but I think it's going to be spinning.
02:06So this is on Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2R tyres, and it's quite cold, and they're not warm.
02:11Rear engine, so you can really put the power down.
02:14I'll tell you what's going to be fun.
02:14I reckon to give you a chance, we should start off the drag races just with cold tyres.
02:20We've got the people from GM over there who brought the car down, and they've been specifically
02:23told to make sure the tyres are warm.
02:25They've shown me how to do a rolling burnout.
02:27They've told me they've got some tyre warmers.
02:28I'm going to ignore all that.
02:29Let's just go in cold.
02:31They've got tyre warmers.
02:33What is this?
02:33Formula One.
02:34And is it true?
02:35Is that car over £200,000?
02:37Yeah, so it's like £208,000 or something with all the equipment on it.
02:43So for the first time ever, the Porsche 911 GT3 looks cheap.
02:47You're not wrong.
02:48Like, wow, I can't believe the price of that.
02:50That's the price in the UK after, like, import duties and tariffs and stuff like that.
02:56In the USA, this is how much this car would cost.
03:00So it's significantly cheaper, and then it's a bit of a bargain compared to that Porsche.
03:04Let's do a sound check first, right?
03:06You rev up your Porsche.
03:07I'm sure you've got a soft limiter, but there is a little bit of a hack, isn't there, to get around it.
03:10So see if you know how to do it.
03:11How does it put it in gear?
03:19Softy, mate, but I think...
03:20There we go.
03:22That sounds sweet.
03:24Bit of a soft limiter, but it still sounds sweet.
03:26But if you think that's a bad soft limiter by the over-regulated Germans,
03:30check out what you'd imagine would be the under-regulated Americans.
03:33You're not even hearing that, are you?
03:43Mate, I can't hear anything.
03:44That's ridiculous.
03:45And I've opened the window as well.
03:46Yeah, this is like a 5.5-litre naturally aspirated V8 with a flat, plain crank.
03:51So like a Ferrari.
03:52And nothing.
03:53I'm going to try and put it into launch, see if it can do the cheat like you did.
03:56So drive.
03:57There.
03:58Press that.
04:04Better?
04:05That was better, but I can't do it more than once
04:06because it might just destroy the dual clutches.
04:08Okay, so that's that done.
04:09Shall we just get into the race?
04:10Let's just do it.
04:11Let's go.
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04:32Oh, wait, I wonder if I have to drive.
04:42Hey, Yanni, I found another hack for the noise.
04:44Listen to this now.
04:45Pull up on both pedals, it disengages the clutches,
04:47and then I...
04:50Yee-haw, that's more like it.
04:53Yeah, drill, baby, drill.
04:56Ha-ha!
04:59Can we race now, mate?
05:00I can hear you.
05:01Well done.
05:01I'm proud of you.
05:02All right.
05:04All right.
05:12Faffage.
05:12Now, my concern about this is I've never launched this car before.
05:15I've got the traction control off.
05:16What I don't know, though, is the delay when I lift off the accelerator.
05:18In the Porsche, there's a bit of a delay.
05:20Yanni's used to that now.
05:21I've no idea what it is on this one.
05:22Let's just see what happens.
05:23Three, two, one...
05:25Going nowhere.
05:30Oh, wow.
05:32That was mad.
05:33Oh, he's going to win this one.
05:48Or is he?
05:49Oh, he's going to win this one.
05:50It's close, it's close, it's close.
05:57Come on, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it, get it.
05:59I had traction issues like crazy off the line, but I'm assuming you did too.
06:13Yeah, I was spinning up a lot, which surprised me.
06:17There's the smell of tyres now in this car.
06:19Okay, I don't know who won.
06:21I have no idea.
06:23Me.
06:25You're one-nil.
06:26No, but you always say me, even if you're, like, clearly behind.
06:29Are you sure?
06:30If you're so close.
06:31It was not close, mate.
06:32Honestly, when you watch this back, you're going to see, you'll be like, oh, wow, okay,
06:35then, I wasn't paying attention.
06:36Okay, I'll give you that.
06:37Let's go again.
06:38Best sum out of sum.
06:41Because I wanted to play at least with my tyres warm.
06:44Okay, let's go again.
06:45I knew.
06:45That's why you didn't want to do two out of three, because you knew you'd lose.
06:48Let's warm the tyres.
07:08That's a bit better now.
07:11Malkin.
07:12Do you need fire, police, or ambulance?
07:17I'm actually okay.
07:18I was just driving the car around.
07:21Who are you, anyway?
07:23You're due to the emergency operator.
07:25Oh, why?
07:26If you don't have an emergency, I'll clear the line for you.
07:28You've pressed the SOS button in your car.
07:31No, I didn't.
07:31I'll clear the line for you if you don't have an emergency.
07:33No, the SOS...
07:34Does the car automatically, like, warn you if it thinks someone had a crash?
07:38Do you need fire, police, or ambulance?
07:39Oh, sorry.
07:40Nothing.
07:40No, bye.
07:41Thanks for your help, anyway.
07:43Okay.
07:44Right.
07:45Clearly, the car thought I had an accident, and so it automatically called the emergency
07:48services.
07:49She's obviously not for pissing around, and I can understand that based on the job she
07:53does.
07:53The SOS button's up there.
07:54Definitely didn't press that, even though I was flailing around with the steering wheel.
07:57Sounds handy, isn't it?
07:58So, if you spin off the road, it'll automatically call the emergency services for you.
08:01Let's move on.
08:02Do another drug race.
08:03Three, two, one.
08:12Come on!
08:23I think I might have jumped.
08:28Donor jumped, Watson.
08:52Hiya, you all right, Yanni?
08:54How do you feel about that?
08:54I just can't get off.
08:56You can't get off?
08:58Oh, he's mad.
08:59Yeah, just, I don't know, just won't let me pull away fast enough.
09:03Do you need to warm your tyres up a little bit, or does it need, the Porsche wants me
09:06to drive it.
09:07That's the problem.
09:08I'm surprised you haven't said something.
09:10What should you be saying right now?
09:13I don't know.
09:13What should I be saying right now?
09:15I think you're too, like, lost in your terrible launch that you probably didn't realise that
09:19I might have jumped.
09:20Do you know what?
09:21I didn't even notice that.
09:22I was too busy, yeah.
09:23Can we find out if Matt's jumped, please?
09:25I'm just checking.
09:26We don't think he did.
09:28Yeah.
09:29While they're checking, check out this.
09:32New Karwan merch, look.
09:33You can get it, link in the description.
09:35Click on things on the screen, there's a carousel.
09:37There was no jump.
09:38No jump.
09:39Anyway, that's from our Holy Trinity Drag Race.
09:41Good water bottle too.
09:43Cheers, Yanni.
09:43Okay, Yanni, I think you need to warm up your tyres.
09:45Maybe just drive up and down there a bit, a few launches.
09:48Launch it with stability control off to get some heat into the tyres.
09:57See, that launched amazing then.
09:59That seemed a whole lot better.
10:01How weird is that?
10:03My tyres are nice and warm now, Matt.
10:05I'm going to make mine even warmer.
10:07Rolling burnout.
10:08Yeah.
10:09Put it into manual mode.
10:10Yeah, double clutch.
10:11Yeah.
10:12Foot hard on the brake, hard on the throttle.
10:13Yeah.
10:14And you should be able to just slip the clutch and it should just slip itself.
10:17Okay.
10:18Yeah.
10:18So just give it some of that rolling burnout.
10:21You ready?
10:21I'd move away.
10:22Well, it's not a rolling burnout at all.
10:27That was a pile of s***.
10:29Let's try again.
10:37No idea.
10:38I've got a better idea.
10:40Come out of that.
10:40Come out of that.
10:41Turn it all off.
10:43Find the brake.
10:43Pull up on the paddles.
10:45Do that.
10:46Double the clutch.
10:50Now, now.
10:51Quickly.
10:52Let's go.
10:53Let's go.
10:53My tyres are warm.
10:54Yeah.
10:54Same, same, same.
10:55Give me the right settings.
10:57Here we go.
10:58Three, two, one.
11:03No.
11:05What?
11:06No, it didn't change.
11:06Get it out.
11:07No.
11:07I've got it out.
11:08No.
11:09Better.
11:10Come on.
11:11Come on.
11:21I've got it.
11:23I've got it.
11:23Find your mode.
11:24He's going to love that.
11:27Well done.
11:28Warm tyres make all the difference, my friend.
11:51Let's do one more race.
11:53Let's do it, bruv.
11:54This is the decider.
11:55The decider?
11:56I'm sure it's two, one.
11:58But okay, we'll do the decider.
11:59It's fine.
11:59Let's just say that the first race was a draw.
12:01We can't let the car down, right?
12:07Otherwise, we'll have everyone who supports Corvette and Americans in the comments go,
12:11Matt, get Matt out of the car.
12:12Terrible driver.
12:13Didn't change gear.
12:14Should have won.
12:15This is why I'm doing this.
12:16He thinks he's in with a chance and he's not.
12:18He can't be.
12:20Three, two, one.
12:27No, we did it again.
12:31Got him.
12:33Got him.
12:39I left it in f***ing nine, yo.
12:48Got him.
12:49F***.
12:50F***.
13:01It's because my merch is in the way.
13:14I can't see the butter and buy the merch so that I don't have any of it and then I can't
13:19cock a bloody drag race in.
13:20I don't know what to say.
13:22Please can I just have one more go?
13:23Just please.
13:24Please.
13:24Please.
13:25Please.
13:26Please be kind.
13:27I'll explain why in a bit.
13:28Before you spoke, I was like, here come the book of excuses.
13:32I'll give you one more go, but this is the final one.
13:35I don't want to hear nothing else after this.
13:37Deal.
13:37Deal.
13:44F***.
13:46Get into bloody drive.
13:47Just don't mess around with anything now.
13:49Tires are warm enough.
13:50You don't need to f*** about Watson.
13:51You're going to win.
13:52It's going to win.
13:52It was so far ahead.
13:53I thought he was going to win.
13:56What a moron.
13:59Three, two, one.
14:04That's it.
14:05It's over.
14:06God, I got him again.
14:18Yeah, I knew it.
14:20Oh, no.
14:21No.
14:23No.
14:36Yeah.
14:42Now, seeing as you let me have loads of other goes, if you want to have more goes, you're
14:46quite welcome to.
14:47I'll be honest.
14:47We've done that many drag races now.
14:49I think you just let the public decide and do the thing.
14:51Just who knows anymore.
14:53Yeah, he doesn't know about the cocked up gear.
14:55You know about it.
14:57It did it properly then.
14:58Anyway, here's the thing.
14:59So then, what exactly happened?
15:00Well, the Corvette won.
15:02It completed the standing quarter mile in 11.1 seconds.
15:05The Porsche took 11.3 seconds.
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15:45Now, back to the race.
15:46All right, now we're going to have a rolling race.
15:48We're going to do it in normal mode.
15:50Car's in automatic.
15:51We're going to race it over the half mile, see which car is the quickest.
15:54So I'm going to count this in.
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16:10Sorry, I had to listen to that, Yanni, on the walkie-talkie.
16:12I forgot to release the button.
16:14But anyway, shall we get into this rolling race?
16:16I'm ready.
16:18Three, two, one, go.
16:23Well, it's kicked down quicker.
16:31Let's go here.
16:31These are both high-reving cars.
16:47I thought this would be pulling past, but it's not.
16:49Can I pull it back in?
16:50No, no, no, no, no.
16:59I actually thought that because I have, like, 150 more horsepower than you, I was going
17:08to just reel you back in, but it wasn't to be.
17:11It actually surprised me as well.
17:12You didn't seem to have any kickdown at all and no movement.
17:15So, yeah, I'm surprised.
17:16Let's do a rolling race in sports set in manual mode.
17:19It could be a different story this time.
17:20I hope so.
17:21Shall I go in sport or track?
17:22You go in whichever mode you think is going to make you the fastest, Yanni.
17:27You decide.
17:28Let's play a little game before we race.
17:30I'm going to count to three and then you've got to say which car looks the best.
17:33Don't do it with the radio.
17:34Just do it to camera, okay?
17:36One, two, three, Porsche.
17:38Porsche GT3 easy.
17:40Now I'm going to do the same thing again, but this time say which car you would rather
17:44own.
17:45Don't worry about the price of them or anything like that.
17:46One, two, three, Porsche.
17:48Porsche GT3 again.
17:50Don't know what he said.
17:50Anyway, shall we race?
17:51I look forward to seeing the edit to find out what you said.
17:54Third gear roll on manual mode.
17:56Let's do this one.
17:57Three, two, one, go.
17:58Come on, you fucker.
18:05No, that Porsche's doing it.
18:09Come on, the baby.
18:21Come on.
18:22Come on, vet.
18:25Got him.
18:27He's gaining, but...
18:33Come on, rev it out.
18:34Rev it out, rev it out.
18:36It's the Porsche bloody winning.
18:41So I think a German 510 horsepower meets with an American 650 horsepower.
18:47Somewhere in the middle.
18:48One comes down and one goes up.
18:49Listen, the Americans and the British, there's always a difference.
18:52Even with shoe size, their size 11 is our size 10.
18:55Same with three horsepower.
18:58Having said that, though, their gallon is smaller than our gallon.
19:02For some reason.
19:02I don't know about gallons, but I don't know what to say.
19:07Do you remember gallons when you first started driving?
19:09And it was like, what was it, £4 a gallon or something?
19:12I've got no idea.
19:13I don't know about gallons or litres or anything else, what it costs.
19:16I'll just fill it up.
19:17Money's no objectivity, honey.
19:19Right.
19:19Anyway, yeah, you won, didn't you?
19:21I really didn't expect that.
19:24This car feels really nice.
19:25The fact that it's just a normal GT3, it's nice, it's special and it's new.
19:29So yeah, fair play.
19:29Let's just do the same thing again in second gear, Roland.
19:31I'm feeling like slightly lacking in victories here.
19:34So I want another go.
19:36I'm also slightly frightened of Donald Trump banning me from the USA for making America look
19:40I think I need to do a better job because I would like to go back there soon.
19:44This is not making any sense to me.
19:46I thought that this might not win the drag race because it wouldn't launch and hook up,
19:51but it might come past because it has more power.
19:53But it actually hooked up better than the Porsche in the launch.
19:55And yet in the roll, it seems slower.
19:58Absolutely clueless.
19:59Second gear, 50 miles an hour.
20:01Let's see what happens this time.
20:02Three, two, one, go.
20:05Come on, I've got this.
20:08Great gear change.
20:10Oh, my God.
20:40uh what the hell happened that time did he drop a miss a gear or something yeah i'm screaming on
20:49second gear at 50 mile an hour uh really i'm like uh six and a half thousand rpm surely you're about
20:55the same no yeah but it's still screaming though it's like there's not much to go the race is like
21:003 000 rpm anyway you're lost let's do a brake test yeah but i won the previous one so however
21:07you want to do it second gear you win third gear i win brake test we know i'm gonna win and i'm not
21:11doing no flappy paddle like sam okay i'm not sure that you will but then i am pathetic at braking
21:20so who knows let's go quite close together and be more romantic i've got nice big calves and you've
21:25got little weenie calves you know with the advantage of big calves you start having a heart attack what
21:29you need to do just flex your feet like that and you can use your calves to pump the blood around
21:33your body keep it alive is that a true story no
21:36right let's go let's do a brake test now if you'd rather watch another drag race with some american
21:43click on the pop-out banner up there i'll scan the qr code on screen now
21:46if not stay here for this amazing brake test which i am sure to win
21:50come on
21:54jesus christ
22:01as expected you can call me notradamus because i predict the future my friend
22:06all right okay well done well predicted i won though didn't i because i won the drug race
22:12yeah actually let's talk about this brake test because that is a huge difference now unless you cheated
22:17i don't know what's going on there why have i always got a cheat to win on the brake test i'm
22:22always good on the brake test and the drag race we're leaving it to the public and the rolling race
22:27was 20 mile an hour and 30 mile an hour so it's actually like a 50 50 all the way through kind of
22:31is i agree with you there let us know who you think really won the drag race you've seen the whole
22:37thing you know what happened let us know find it out it's going to be between porsche fans and corvette
22:41fans let's find out which is the most plentiful anyway listen hope you enjoyed the video if you did give
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22:57watching and i'll see you next time
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