A competitor for Callaway: 614hp Twin Turbo Geiger C6

[Brangeta]

For an astounding $178,000 you too can have a twin turbo Geiger C6 BiTurbo.

Neat looking, but for that price, I can think of at least 5 cars i'd rather have than just this one. At least Callaway still beats it by 2 hp. :cool

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/09/12/frankfurt-2007-deutschland-americana-geiger-c6-biturbo/

 

[TurboLuigi]

Correction... 616HP was for a 2007 Model Year C6.

With Callaway, the 2008 Model Year is more!

The Geiger styling is not drastic enough for me to pay the added costs (and on a persal note, I do not like the rear diffuser with the fins) and they do not show any interior changes which I would hope in that price range.

Interesting though...

-Luigi
:cool

 

[*89x2*]

Geiger has always come up with extreme designs - they are subjective, just like any interpretation of a restyle :cool


616 was last year for sure - MORE POWER for 2008 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[C-4 Now]

Geiger cars seem to much better received in Europe than here. They don't push my buttons, but that is true of many body mod cars! :ugh

 

[Aurora40]

At least they left the fenders more or less alone. In my mind, Geiger = fenders flared out 3 feet from the rest of the car.

I wonder how it would look in a better color? That orange and black isn't quite my style, and the orange almost looks flat like they haven't clearcoated it yet?

 

[TurboLuigi]

Unfortunately - there are too many "corvette purists" that "need" to keep the original body (which I admit is much nicer on the C6 than the C5). It is nice to have a choice in the C16 (or others) to seperate yours from the run of the mill.

On the other side - there are too many people who want cheap bolt-ons rather than a combination of components which are engineered to work together "like a system" where there is no doubt that Callaway does the "powerful engineering" to back their designs.

I have still to hear of anyone to beat the track numbers which were published with the development of the C36 Corvette and whose components are available for C6, and go into Callaway C16s.

I thought long and hard when it came to a choice for my new C6 corvette and found hands down that Callaway was again the way to go.

-Luigi
:cool

 

[*89x2*]

I have still to hear of anyone to beat the track numbers which were published with the development of the C36 Corvette and whose components are available for C6, and go into Callaway C16s.
-Luigi
:cool

Amen, brother

 

[*89x2*]

Gonzo...

On the other side - there are too many people who want cheap bolt-ons rather than a combination of components which are engineered to work together "like a system" -Luigi
:cool

Like this :ugh

 

[Peer81]

The old C4 Geigers are nice to see as long as the are moving and you don't get the change to take a good look. It's all for show and nothing if well designed to improve things. When I look at the Geiger C6 front bumper in general what you see is what all after market "tuned up" front bumper of any car looks like so thats no good either. The rear is interesting because it is different. But it looks like the rear lights are much smaller and that is ashame.

What we like here in Europe are more the Aston Martin kind of cars. Very nice design and not to loud, the Geigers are just the other way around...

Groeten Peter

 

[Peer81]

BTW, a very nice competitor for Callaway will be the new ZR1, or is it build with Callaway tech?

Groeten Peter

 

[heimo huima]

This summer got to see yellow and blue geiger cars in action at the Hockenheim, Germany. Blue twin turbo got crashed to the wall and
yellow supercharged got "little" hot.
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[scraffen]

Callaway vs. bolt on

Callaway's approach seems to have a refined elegance which most of the "bolt" on tuners approaches lack.