It was definitely poplar to hate on American cars in this 2000s era. I'd say this Corvette doesn't deserve it.

Corvette owners crying in the replies oh my god

Should've waited until 2010, the ZR1 would've impressed Tsuchiya.

this comment here are just bunch of JDM fan that hate how bad American car is. me as asian love all cars whatever its made from. Corvette was good car if it has proper tuning

Doesn't help that it's a base model.

Roasted the fuck out of the car, nice.

So strange seeing a corvette move like that

From the C5, which had everything positive listed, engine, trans design, and even proper pop-up headlights that fuck off when out of use, the first competitively successful racing Corvette... To the faceplant that brochure warriors everywhere know as the "better" C6 which took everything significant and depreciated it(even the 50/50 weight apparently) by giving you a false clamshell hood(can't reach anything) even though in technicality, the C5 wasn't a full clamshell like the C4, at least you could change the plugs without pulling a bunch of plastic off. Last proper 350 too, which was the sweet spot with square overal combustion chambers. Hopefully I'm the only one who's seeing it for what it is, because otherwise it's easy to overlook the C5 as "inferior" to the C6.

I feel my C6 does best in competitive driving mode. No assist to muck up your throttle input

I have one and it sucks i gave it to my son, he says he dont want it. 😮

One thing I've noticed from watching this stuff is that there's a uniquely Japanese style of handling. Cars like Silvia, S2000, etc tend to have a ton of front grip relative to the rear, which is important for tight and low-speed handling such as touge or autocross. You see corners attacked with a lot of attitude, no-counter 4-wheel drifts, etc. Western cars tend to have relatively higher rear grip and don't take kindly to higher slip angles. They're tuned for the relatively higher speed, wider-corner roads and tracks found outside of Japan, with a big pile of horsepower to control. This made Japan the perfect place for the sport of drifting to originate, because elsewhere these high-slip techniques had mostly gone extinct when bias-ply tires were phased out. A few lunatics would hang it out with their 930 Turbo, E30 M3, or C4 Corvette, but it was understood that doing so was the slow way around. Well, if you were trying to go fast on Irohazaka in an S13 in 1992, a spot of low-angle drifting was probably the fast way. Hence this disconnect when the cultures meet. The C6 Corvette feels like an absolute tugboat on Gunsai, even as it dukes it out with 997s back home. Meanwhile, the S2000 and MR2 harvest course records on Japanese touge roads, but smash backwards into the tire walls on track days in America.

This is why I don't like muscle cars. DANGEROUS!!

IMO base model C6's were always kind of crappy and bland (vauge steering too) compared to the higher end models (Grand Sport, Z06, ZR1) so I can easily see why Tsuchiya-san says it's like a sponge. His reaction would have been quite different if it was a Z06 or a Grand Sport as the steering is far sharper in those.

Idk guys. I've upset a lot of cars already with my C6. A few upgrades here and there and this thing can really pound it out

Where was this clipped from? I wanna see the whole thing D:

The only roads Japanese can drive on are super tight mountain roads. Obviously a rather large Corvette isn't designed for that, but on any well designed track it will do wonders. A 15 year old C6 Z06 was recently driven at the Nürburgring in heavy traffic with a passenger and it still managed a 7:33 😲

See American cars are ass

Who’s gonna tell him the main market for people who own Corvettes or at least own new ones

*Corvette is only a straight line sports car*

I found it very interesting how he feels disconnected with the Corvette. He automatically felt there was less traction on the front tires going through corners. The man is a master

The traction control on thes cars is horrendous

I rather go for a car I can throw around a turn easily

Tsuchiya is the Japanese equivalent of an old American boomer complaining about the kids and their "daggum imports".

A LOT of fast cars, are bricks and move like shit. I loved the Lamborghini Diablo, then tried to drive one. It was a BRICK. What crap. F1 and GP cars are FAST CARS and literally designed by aerospace engineers to move like a fight jet. The rest are crap except to look cool. MY OPINION only

I like how they called the car "heavy", have they ever called a wrx/evo/skyline/fk8 civic type r/350z/370z/g35/ISF/LFA/GTR heavy cause they weigh as much or more than that corvette cause thats a 3150lb car, everybodys biased towards american cars even boujee "american" car media outlets that just get bought out by asian car brands anyway in order for them to recieve good reviews but i digress

C6 corvette has won multiple times in endurance races and literally beat everyone in the ALMS GT1. Ive never heard any japanese cars on those races and yet everyone thinks that corvette is a bad car. Lol

Tsuchiya "this car is like a sponge, traction control is wierd" US comentator " this car is good, i swear"

Commenting about attributes fitting for the elderly, then proceeding to test it wearing a Hawaii shirt and gardening gloves :) Top review!

I own a 2005 C6. Honestly I assume they game him run flats. Take them off the car and replace them with a traditional tire. Run flats are heavy and not very grippy. I have Cooper Xeon RS3-G1s on my car and it is planted! Edit: Those are all-season tires too!

Just the way he takes corners It's inspiring

"" A M E R I C A N M U S C L E ~ ですね,,

you need 100 feet wide road for this car to go fast

Yeah ppl said American car suck ass At least America nuke them in the past 😂😂😂😂😂

I'm so glad the newer corvettes cut the shit and started getting serious, that model and earlier were so fucking bad

This video didn’t age well c6 one of the best cars ever made for the sport he created

and this is exactly why iv only owned japanese cars

its like a sponge if u ask me🤣🤣🤣🤣every american car suspension🤣🤣🤣

You gotta be nuts to drive that car in that road… luckely he is alive to tell us his toughts

Like what a pimp lol I’m digging those gloves that he wears while drifting lol

I come back to these comments and this video and they always bug me. Anyone who’s ever been in a C5 or C6 knows the active handling/traction control is atrocious but there’s a giant button in the center of the dash to turn it off for that exact reason which I never see them do in the video. That and obviously the base model suspension is going to be spongey because it’s a base model. Z06’s which were actually intended to be driven at the limits have much stiffer sway bars and leaf springs which people replace in base models with bigger bars and coilovers all the time. Not to mention even a base is still stiffer with less body roll than over 95% of vehicles on the road and at 3200 lbs still pretty average/lightweight for a stock sports car that’s anything but a Miata, 240sx, or 86. Especially when nowadays the streets are flooded with 4000+lb chargers and challengers and this thing is still lighter than a 350z with way more power, potential, reliability, and aftermarket even. It’s just so weird to me since two of his three total complaints are so easily and obviously fixable. I really wanted to hear his take on the vette’s variable power steering and balancing/timing a drift and maintaining grip in a car with a transaxle because they do feel noticeably different than anything else. I love keiichi to death but this video was rough and the comments section is even worse so maybe this clears some things up. ✌️

This car is a very americanow. Mean to be drivin on straight line

These guys are so funny. Imagine being an engineer of a monsterous v8 chevy engine and these guys pull up

Anyone known the beat at 2:24?

It feels like watching an episode of Initial D.....when they elaborate car stuff

2:12 Brakes so hard that the passenger seat moves forward

I find the stock suspension way too soft and the anti roll bars not stiff enough, grips well once into a turn but not confidence inspiring coming into one

See you again, in a few years when this gets recommended again.

Pretty clear to see, that most people making comments hasn't watched a lot of BestMotoRing videos..