It is a fact that the latest +General Motors Chevrolet Corvette flagship, C7 Z06 is a giant cluster fuck. No matter how sugar +Tadge Juechter throws at the Corvette enthusiast to coat the super bitter pill of failure, it is still the same failure.  As a matter of fact, the failure of this latest so called "certified supercar" is so monumental that it sets it in a league of its own, it is so bad.

Of course, to keep the overproduced turds selling to the geriatric buyers and in lieu of actual selling points, the marketing team, along with the chief Corvette "engineer" picked a very predictable strategy of throwing marketing bones the buyers way.  Those bones so far include the failing 8-speed automatic transmission and futile engine and supercharger cooling system upgrades.  The newest bone: a 100-octane engine tune.

Typically, a higher octane tunes are used to sustain higher horsepower figures resulting from "tweaked" engines, modified for track and racing purposes.   In C7 Z06 case, this tune is there to solidify the failed design of this piece of car engineering shit, merely trying to PRESERVE the performance advertised in sales brochures.

Without going into deep octane related discussions, there is one thing that is literally glaring, exposing the losing battle Juechter and his "engineering" team keep fighting: the budget nature of the Corvette and especially, the bargain the C7 Z06 supposed to be: the minimum octane needed for the car when not using very expensive 100-octane racing fuel is 93 octane street gas.   This is a serious change from the previous 91/93 set up and one that renders driving this car a true impossibility in the states where octane rating has been limited to 91 octanes.

Not only it will cost an owner using this tune between 8-10 dollars per gallon (around 400-500 dollars per track day) but then, should someone living in a state offering 91 octane only, there is an issue of factory warranty that will be automatically void, should the car use lower than 93-octane fuel when engine failure occurs (and it will sooner or later).  The alternative?  Purchasing of a trailer and limiting the use of the car to track only.

The real kicker: 320 dollar admission fee to get this tune from the authorized GM dealer.  And here is even a bigger kicker, apparently this newest unicorn will not be even available until March of 2017.

So how much of a bargain is this certified supercar now?  Not much of a bargain at all if it takes $8/gallon fuel to run it and if trailer is required otherwise.  In other words, more bullshit from Juechter and GM and still the same failed car.