There's Just 0.3sec In This 911 GTS vs Corvette Grand Sport Track Battle

Sport Auto's Hockenheim lap battle between these very different sports cars from Porsche and Chevrolet yielded two incredibly similar times

Matt Robinson

24 Apr 2017

While both are sports cars with roughly 450bhp to their name (444 for the Porsche, 453 for the Chevrolet) the 911 Carrera GTS and Corvette go about their business in very different ways. The German keeps a 3.0-litre, twin-turbo flat-six at the back, while the American has a rather shouty 6.2-litre V8 mounted at the front.

Despite the differences, they post remarkably similar times during this Hockenheim track battle from Sport Auto. We won’t spoil the result, but with just 0.3sec in it, this is a close one.

Who’s your money on?

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

I’m more and more proud of Americans everyday.

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As an American I can admit we used to have crap cars. But 2011+ has been a night and day difference. I’m proud of our cars now

Still… Corvette is faster than 911 Carrera, 911 Carrera S, 911 Carrera 4, 911 Carrera 4S, 911 Carrera Cabriolet, 911 Carrera S Cabriolet, 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet, 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet and surely the 911 Carrera GTS Cabriolet….

And porsche is two times more expensive

Being a manual guy in a non manual car like

Ahah :-) they should have compared the corvette with a manual 911 though

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I’d still take the Porsche though, imo

Gotta say the corvette wins in the looks department too

let’s get real for a few seconds….
American cars have started to get “better” nowadays, though not everyone will agree with me here, but let’s think about it….
as for the Porsche, they’ve certainly gotten better as well…
so let’s just wait and see shall we….

People just hate to admit that over the past few years things are changing drastically for American cars

Tired of seeing Corvettes so ill go for the porsche, Sure its more bang for your buck but Literally 5% of my town is pure Corvette owners from C1 to C7 Z06, it gets annoying.

Im tired of Vettes in general. Chevy could be doing a way better job with them but they aren’t.

you live in florida so that’s not a surprise…

Interior quality on the Corvette is hideous though :-/ but it looks great on the outside and sounds incredible. Ah miss the nostalgic sound of the 3.8l flat six of the old GTS ;-;