Fourth generation of this legendary sports car Chevrolet Corvette. Stingray was released in 1983. It was a serious transformation, since after this appearance and the entire technical side of the cars came out on new level. The model was produced until 1996 and sales was worse than. For all the time of existence, 366,000 copies were sold, it is definitely a chic result for a sports car, but not so big as the predecessor.
Appearance C4.
The model as used to be produced in the body coupe and convertible, its external part was changed dramatically. The overall style is preserved, you can find out a series of cars without problems, but now it has become more modern and more close to competitors, that is, to European cars.
Looking at the appearance of the fourth generation of Corvette, you can see a great similarity with old Ferrari, for example. An absolutely different bumper appeared on the front, on which the long rectangular daytime running lights are installed. Opening headlights are also preserved, but now it is not four round lamp, but one square lamp.
The car is now more similar to modern sports cars familiar to us. This is determined by the mirrors of the rear view mounted on the legs, the most body shape and the rest of the items. The back of the car also received many changes, but many fans did not agree with them. In their opinion, the back part was too smooth, past generations had some bends and aerodynamic lines, here this is not. The branded four round rear lamps are now replaced by four square headlights with rounding at the corners. Under the most common bumper, Chevrolet Corvette C4 looks out the four barrel exhaust, which has already pleased the public.
And what with dimensions:
- length - 4535 mm;
- width - 1796 mm;
- height - 1177 mm;
- wheel base - 2444 mm;
- road clearance - 120 mm.
Specifications
| A type | Volume | Power | Torque | Acceleration | Maximum speed | Number of cylinders |
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| Petrol | 5.7 L. | 411 hp | 522 H * M | 4.9 seconds. | 299 km / h | V8. |
| Petrol | 5.7 L. | 300 hp | 461 H * M | 5.5 seconds. | 272 km / h | V8. |
| Petrol | 5.7 L. | 282 hp | 437 H * M | 6.1 sec. | 254 km / h | V8. |
Let's first move on to the technical part, and only then discuss the salon, although in the interior there are really many updates and it is worth discussing, but we will still move on to the Chevrolet Corvette Corvette engines, as they are more interesting to the public.
Honors from the past generation is not so power aggregates. The ruler consists of only one engine, it is a V8 of 5.7 liters with a distributed injection and two valves for each cylinder, but there is one version of the engine with four valves per cylinder.
- The weakest has 282 horsepower and 437 units of torque, allowing to accelerate to the first hundred for 6 seconds.
- The version of the most powerful received 300 horsepower and 461 units of torque, on the dynamics it affected the better, reducing overclocking for 1 second.
- Samoa powerful version It is just the version that received four valves for each cylinder. It gives 411 horsepower and 522 h * m torque. Dynamics gain insignificant, it was 0.2 seconds.
A couple for all these Chevrolet Corvette C4 units was initially a 4-speed mechanic and a 4-step automatic machine, which was 300 horsepower and 282 horsepower, and could also be ordered by mechanics on them. The rest of the motors worked in a pair with a manual transmission. After 3 years, the manufacturer decided to abandon this mechanics and ordered from the company ZF 6-speed mechanical box Transmissions, which was the right solution.
The new model is built on the platform Y-BODY is a fully independent side and back circuit. The suspension is sharpened for sports style, it does not feel the smoothness of the stroke, so the owners look very carefully on the road to move smoothly through the sleeping police.
The car braking system has been significantly improved, all disk mechanisms are used, but now they are supplemented with ventilation and system.
Chevrolet Salon Corvette C4
The inner decoration was treated with fundamental changes, finally fans waited at really sport seats with excellent side support. As in past versions, a lot of things in the interior are placed, but for the most part it is noticeable on the chairs. Side support is not the biggest, but it is quite enough.
Opening the curved door, we see the modern panel of Torpedo, which does not like their predecessors, it can be seen that the manufacturer was very much focused on its competitors from Europe. Chevrolet Corvette Stingray steering column is now thick, with leather trim, 2-spoke or 4-spoke depending on the version.
The instrument panel has changed dramatically, it is small analog sensors, but with a beautiful distribution. On the left side, we see a large tachometer sensor, and on the right side we see a small oil pressure sensor, a small oil temperature sensor and a battery charge sensor. In the center of the dashboard, there is a small monitor that displays the current speed and the amount of fuel in the 76 liter in the tank.
The central console is closed from the eye of the passenger. It contains a regular radio, and a variety of buttons, to control the climate installation. In essence, there is nothing more on the central console of Corvet. The tunnel has a gearbox selector from the left side, and the buttons for pumping the central rollers of the back are located behind it. At the end of all this there is a huge armrest with a large volume, but see that only the driver can be inside, as it opens towards the passenger. The passenger is available only to the glove box.
Price
This car is much more popular than its predecessors, there are even announcements for the sale. From here we can conclude that there are many such cars in Russia, you can buy a coupe or a convertible on average for 1,500,000 rubles. This is certainly not a small amount, but the car of this money is due to its history, the technical part and what no exclusiveness.
Exactly this generation Chevrolet. Corvette C4 made a small coup in General Motors after which they began to do this series Absolutely different. It is difficult to buy this car or not to say, since it still remains old, but not devoid of many modern things that are not even on cars produced now. All models presented on announcements boards are most likely not the best, but you can hardly be able to find for that kind of money. excellent option With such age.
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Test american car On the territory of the Orthodox Cathedral - clean water sacrilege. This red, deliberately immodest and deafeningly loud embodiment of the vice is not a place on the Holy Land. But the contrast of the designer devilishfinger of the fourth corvette with the majestic golden domes and the inextricated ruins of the old buildings, the creative peace seeking, so strong that they had to take sin on the soul.
The appearance of a flattened hammer leaves no doubt - sports car. Having left the designer reinforcement of the first three generations, GM decided to bring the appearance of C4 to the overseas (that is, European - your CEP) to competitors. Our restyled copy demonstrating more intelligent rounded shapes, in this respect is especially indicative. So I see the seller of Corvettes, smiling in the whole breadth of Hollywood smile: "Looks like Ferrari, and stands at times cheaper!" Buyer with the thoughts "Great Deal" discharges a check.
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I would definitely behave - like anyone who over the bed hung a poster with Lotus Esprit or something like that. Lamborghini, Ferrari, M Aserati - Almost all the very famous European Sportor Tusovka, with the exception of those who do not have a motor in that place, had similar silhouettes and mandatory lifting headlights. A comparison with the glittering stallions is more appropriate that this copy is bangible with side linings that imitates air intakes in the style of Maranello models. For Corvet, there is nothing shameful. The American often became the basis for the replica of Italian sports cars - take at least a fake Ferrari Daytona in the Miami Vice series.
Inside
Restyled Corvette Salon creates unequivocally aircraft associations. Nothing in common with the pre-reform C4 and its gross interior, the design of which seemed to develop a logger. Total finishing of all skin panels - a whim of previous owners: GM's factory options did not imply such whims. The massive bas-relief of the central console, helpfully deployed towards the driver, reliably separates it from the seated right. In a similar style, by the way, the interior of the last Corvette is resolved.
The pair of the passenger remains only to admire those looking at him with three ventilation deflectors. Excellent chairs are compensated for compensation, as if taken from a massage salon and equipped with a mass of electrically regulators. There is even a separate punching of the central rollers of the back - remind you that we are talking about the car from the beginning of the 90s. Well, a great way to distract when your legs are clamped in a narrow slit between the door and the central tunnel.
Since most of the cabin is given to the driver, he does not have such problems. Caring for the main acting person is already manifested at the entrance - for the convenience of landing the steering wheel can be folded. And then you remain one on one with a bunch of buttons and togglers, heading the impressive list of options. The left submitter switch, head of the glass washer, cruise control and turn signals - American Hi German colleague in Mercedes. Dashboard With a large tachometer, four auxiliary scales and a small screen, in the middle may seem wisdom only to someone who did not see the tidy of dorestayling Corvette C4 of the early eighties. Digital Speedometer Display Trained Showing Speed \u200b\u200bin Miles and Kilometers. Switches modes on-board computer Heads a group of large buttons to the right of the steering column.
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The pleasure character of the cabriolet obliges C4 to meet the minimum standards for the interior practicality. The central armrest is quite spacious - the truth is, only the driver knows about the secrets of its contents: it opens only in his direction. The passenger can be content with a small glove box on the front panel. Search for huge cup holders under liter bottles with Kolly turned out to be useless.
Two small recesses near the gearbox clearly hint that Corvette does not welcome the excessive fast food consumption.
In move
But the C4 itself does not eat a fool. Even in calm mode mixed flow The 95th gasoline is rarely lowered below 20 liters per hundred. Under the half-and-half-and-half-fading fiberglass hood lives a big American mound about eight cylinders. Call Monster LT1. It has 5.7 liters of working volume and 300 hp With its help, the old "American", equipped with a four-step automatic, will not allow himself offended by even the modern Mercedes-Benz SL or "six" BMW.
But the buzz of open Corvette is not in this. For their more than 60 years of history, he has already proven everything. Therefore, a small stop, half a minute from the mechanical roof, the mandatory lift of the blind headlights and ... Forward, towards the sun!
Kakophony sounds, born C4, attracts us the attention of the entire street. Turning at idle, turning into the roar, it is only worth touching the gas pedal, it does not stop for a second. In the eyes of passersby, a considerable surprise is read from the fact that the source of the screen has become a non-calibrated truck, but a low flying red UFO without a roof.
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Falling from the surgery attack of starry disease, turning on the side deserted street. With not noticed in time, the Suspension of Corvette was playing playing. Compared to the predecessor, C4 took the course to "sportiness", but to sacrifice the smoothness of the move - such Americans simply could not afford. To the open corvette, which plays the role of the Pzhonsky accessory in the model range, this applies first. No wonder the lion's share of C 4 convertible was implemented precisely with an automatic box.
To automatic transmission, taking into account the above, there are no complaints. Corvette easily costs two, and even one transmission. Strong jerks are felt only with active pedaling. But it is only worth stupid on the right pedal, as a desire to find fault with a look at the raised hood, from which the angry V 8 will break out, disappears by itself.
I will not, although I could. Understand the front dimensions - the task is not from the lungs. If it were not for the lifting headlights, guess where the endless hood ends without a long workout is simply impossible. Attack of aging - dish not from the Corvette menu. The body has been firmly strengthened, and in the high-speed turning of turns it is felt very good. But which of the cabriolets began the nineties not without sin?
Ergonomics and Ergonomics Country. I would very much like to look at the clever, which shoved the button of the emergency to the steering column, passing it in the black color. Pedals are at the non-optimal level relative to each other. To transfer the leg from the gas to the brake, without tearing off the floor from the floor, it turned out in time. Apparently, I do not dozo to Corvette.
Chevrolet Corvette C4.
Consumption per 100 km
Flaws in C4, as in any American, you can look for a long time and enjoyed. Everything, as usual, beats the price. Having the appearance and dynamics of a purebred sports car, Corvette in the years of youth cost an order of magnificent cheaper Europeans. Now - and suppressed. And if the states C4 does not have a special collectible value, unlike famous ancestors, then we have it to the public, Fanfaron and Babi Magnet. So it was not in vain left the homeland.
Purchase history
The fourth Corvette was the limit of dreams for Yuri for the last ten years. Love manifested in sharp shape once every six months when he went to sales sites in search of an American dream. Rare specimens usually cost inload money, and the topic of purchase was postponed until the next attack of the attitude.
In the summer of 2015, reviewing ads on the usual sites and not finding anything interesting, Yuri Interest for the sake of the sake of the search query in Google - "I sell Corvette C 4". Among the references, one turned out to be very interesting. She led to an unknown Yuri site, where he saw an announcement of the sale of C4 convertible in Moscow. However, that this is precisely Corvette, only a specialist can guess - the only photo demonstrated something red, covered with a thick layer of dust, hiding in a garage dymer. Announcement, besides, a month and a half ago was posted. But Yuri still ventured to write the owner on E -mail.
Chevrolet Corvette C4.
Brief specifications
Engine LT1 Volume 5.7 l Power 300 hp Transmission is a 4-speed automatic transmission that with the replacement of oil in the box and engine ( original oil GM - 5 liters) 8 000 rubles
The owner responded quite quickly and confirmed: Yes, the sale of C4 is still relevant. Along the way, the owner told that the car is fully serviced and does not require investments. Yuri, taking a friend for the company, went to the capital to personally make sure that. Inspection upon arrival all confirmed. At the same time, the owner told a very interesting story of this instance.
Chevrolet Corvette C 4 convertible 1992 released to Russia in 1994. Over the many years of Russian touring Yankees managed to roll 120,000 km, change the six owners and several habitats, having been in Chechnya. The last owner, owning the car service, completely reanimated the car in technical PlanBut because of the circumstances, they practically did not use it. Sold Corvette as unnecessary, and Yuri gladly delighted the owner from this burden.
Repairs
Thanks to the previous owner, the suspension and the engine did not require any interventions. Apart from several chips, the body was also in a satisfactory condition, but Yuri decided to completely update the paint coating. By the way, as it turned out, red is not the native color of this car. Initially, Corvette was blue, but in the process of ottomans on Rus-Mother, it was repainted with a color in the TCP. Yuri decided to preserve the color - it goes to Corvette, besides, there will not be former with renewal of documents. The repainting cost 70,000 rubles. Along the way, all the outer gums were replaced, disheighted from a long standing of the car without a case.
Exploitation
Like any paradise bird, Corvette goes for a walk only in the summer in sunny dots. For the year of ownership, Yuri managed to drive nearly 10,000 km.
Plans
Now in technical terms the car is quite healthy. Therefore, the plan of Yuri is only one: ride with an open roof, enjoying a short St. Petersburg summer.
History of the model
Fourth edition of popular american sports car Appeared in 1983. It was the first really new Corvette over the past 15 years. The car retained the faithfulness of the front-engine layout and rear driveWhen you obtain the toughest body with external panels of fiberglass and plastic. All this magnificence was moved with a non-alternative V8 L83 volume of 5.7 liters with a capacity of 205 hp. Transmission - only four-stage, automatic and mechanics.
The C4 produced within 13 years is constantly upgraded. Since 1989, a six-speed mechanic has been available, and the power V 8 by 1992 increased to 250 hp. In 1986. the lineup Replenished the convertible, who was absent in the corvette line since 1975. In 1990, the charged 375-strong Zr -1 was debuted, created with the support of British from Lotus. Restyled sports car Sample 1993 received a revised appearance, a new interior and V8 Lt1 with a capacity of 300 hp
The fourth Corvette stood on the conveyor until 1996. In total, more than 360,000 sports cars were released.
The next generation Corvette - C4 - has become the most successful model in the history of this brand. Since the appearance of the first Corvette in the early 50s, the world has changed radically. Buyers have become more demanding and capricious, federal laws on the purity of emissions and fuel consumption are more harsh, and European competitors are more aggressive. To match the changed time, in C4 are used high tech and results of research aerodynamics. The project of the new Corvette began in 1978 at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, under the leadership of the Chief Engineer Dave Maclilean and Head of Design Studio "Chevrolet" Jerry Palmer. New model It is planned to launch in production in 1983, but work on it is over only in March of that year. Therefore, the manager "Chevrolet" Robert Stempel immediately announces her model 1984. Stingray is continuing the production of Stingray 1982 model year, and on the conveyor of the plant in Bowling Green, the installation of new equipment and preparation for the production of a new model is established.
When creating C4, designers and engineers, first of all, worked on the improvement of AW Tomobile aerodynamics, mainly over the decrease in windshield resistance, for which windshield tilted an angle of 64 degrees. To minimize the area of \u200b\u200bthe front cross section, the Corvette creators have penetrated into the "Stealth region" of the shop used in aviation to make the detection of airplanes by radar. As a result of all the efforts of Corvette, the new generation turns out to be 30% more streamlined than its predecessors, and CX is 0.34 - very good result For that time.
In the design of Corvette, with its rounded faces and elegant smooth lines, the influence of the European school is clearly felt, although the long hood is distinctive trait It is Corvette. From a technical point of view, the body design does not change - all the same plastic panels that are fastened on a metal frame type "Bird Cage". The car is equipped with a V8 model of the L83 model with its own name CrossFire, 5.7 liters and a capacity of 205 liters. from. Steering - Rush, brakes - disk all wheels. It is on Corvette C4 that there is a production of a million copier of this model. Throughout the entire release period, about 25,000 AW Tomobills C4 are sold annually, which bring revenue about $ 100,000,000. The main direction for the Corvette of that time was the effective use of fuel. The next problem becomes preserving the results achieved with increasing power. So the Zr model appears.
1992 it comes in permutations in the leadership - the chief engineer becomes Dave Hill, who spent 27 years in the technical department Cadillac, RUS McLell is held by the head of the Corvette model. In 1993, the manufacture of the LT5 model LT5 is stopped for modifying the ZR1 at the Merquuri Marine plant. From this point on, the engines are installed on Zr1, which remained in stock. They are enough for another one and a half years old.
For the third time, Corvette becomes a "pace-car" on the races of "Indi-500" in 1995, and, while maintaining a tradition, the company produces a special modification for collectors - a white convertible with an LT1 engine and "AW Tomato" engine, decorated with "Indianapolis-" 500. On April 2, 1995, the last ZR1 is collected and immediately installed in the museum. He was undoubtedly the best and, definitely, the most expensive of all Corvette.
In the early 90s, Corvette was as close to the cessation of production, as it was in the distant first days of the mid-50s in itself, the C4 model was popular and respectable, and its financial situation is excellent. However, the problem was that in addition to the Corvette model, the Gigantic "General Motors" had many more departments and directions whose heavy recent losses as a result of long-term problems have impeded the corporation into serious financial difficulties. And part of the top leadership advocated to abandon additional expenses for the development of the next C5 generation and generally abandon Corvette, which does not correspond to new safety standards. If it really happened, then it would be quite likely that Corvette would have found financing and became an independent company. But this option did not even fit in my head. Fortunately, overwhelmed accountants in numbers managed to convince and the C5 project got good.
Beehive, almost the June Peklo. Corvette turns on Pit Lane literally five minutes after the start of the training session. On the face of Oleg Keselman - bewilderment: refused brakes. Suddenly disappeared, having delivering our test pilot a few exciting moments at the end of the start-up straight at speed under 200. If it were not for this, he would have received a six-liter Corvette for the track "Excellent" - a perfectly balanced car with a "atmospheric" V8! Although "Mechanics" - albeit seven-step - this is already the last century, ascertains Jeselman. Corvette would better approach a good "automatic" or "robot" with two clutches. To like Porsche.
Corvette has a rather bright appearance to draw attention. But what will happen when the effect of novelty is exhausted? Meanwhile, any Mercedes C 63 AMG is not slower than Corvet, more cooled and cheaper on Halmillion.
Comparative Test Chevrolet Corvette Z06 and Nissan GT-R Nismo. The burden of expectations: two charged sports cars rush to the finish of the nostril in the nostril
For each new carAs soon as it becomes known about his coming debut, automakers, representatives of the press and fans of the brand lay great hopes. Reasoning and fierce disputes multiply when we are trying to draw conclusions about how this machine will go and what place will take in its segment, based on the available information. The most indicative and numerous premature judgments relate to the class of sports cars, which leads us to two bright examples.
Chevrolet Corvette Z06, like Nissan GT-R Nismo, were among the most anticipated Prime Minister. The first received a thoroughly improved body and interior, as well as an excellent engine and an appropriate suspension, which will allow him to eat at the Supercar-Killer title (supercar killer), deservedly assigned to the second, fully revised version of the titled "Super Killer" of this decade. Both cars promise dynamics at the level of cars in two or three times more expensive, and both achieve this in a completely different ways.
Equipped with a compressor motor with a capacity of 659 hp And on the passport can accelerate to 315 km / h. Not enough? We also thought the strategists of the General Motors concern and brought an even more extreme modification of the legendary sports car - with the prefix Zr1. This version has already been at the fourth and sixth generation machines, and the very first Corvette Zr1 was developed with the involvement of Lotus. New flagship in GM created own forcesbut the glory of the ancestors is clearly not srat.
Under the hood - the LT5 engine of the new generation, created on the basis of the LT4 unit, which is installed on the Corvette Z06. The bottomal "eight" of 6.2 liters was first acquired by a combined injection system (in the intake manifold and directly into cylinders), in addition, the intercooler was improved, the knee was reinforced, and the volume of the EATON drive supercharger was increased by 52% to 2.6 liters. Graduation system - with active dampers. As a result, the return managed to raise to 766 hp and 969 nm!
In the new generation of Corvette Zr1, for the first time, it may be two-weeks: seven-step "mechanics" and an eight-proposed "automatic" are offered to choose from. The suspension on the transverse springs has not changed fundamentally, but the settings are, of course, revised, and already in basic configuration There are electronically controlled shock absorbers Magnetic Ride. By default, carbon-ceramic brake discs are installed (front mechanisms - hexorrheal, rear - four-position), as well as dizard wheels with Michelin Pilot tires Super sport (285/30 ZR19 in front and 335/25 Zr20 rear).
Compared to the basic corvetch, the ZR1 version has enlarged air intakes, because four additional radiator are installed for reliable cooling of nodes and units, and they are still thirteen now! For example, Hypercar Bugatti Veyron is only ten. Aerodynamics are seriously modified. Standard Corvette ZR1 has a so-called low anti-spoer on the feed and the advanced front spoiler's lip, and as a result, the pressure force is 70% more than that of the Z06 version. Such a body kit is better suited for high-speed races in a straight line, and for winding tracks, the ZTK Performance package is proposed (like cars in photos). It includes "High Anti-Cryl" with two positions, a large front splitter, michelin tires Pilot Sport Cup 2 and modified suspension settings.
Curb Mass Coupe Chevrolet Corvette Zr1 - 1598 kg, and maximum speed exceeds 338 km / h. Alas, the data on acceleration time The company does not lead, but the "honeycomb" machine must be swapped at least a little faster version of Z06 (3.7 s via passport). At the same time, Corvette Zr1 is still suitable for daily trips: it has leather heated and ventilation seats, BOSE audio system, multimedia installation and climate control.
In the US, sales of Modifications Zr1 will begin in the spring of 2018, there are no prices and export prospects for information yet. Recall that Corvette Z06 can be officially buying in Russia for 8.8 million rubles, so the probability of appearance of the most extreme modification is not zero.
