Hope this isn't a repost. Came across this when browsing Edmunds and this car is just EPIC. No other word to describe it. Great history, looks fantastic, and as Clarkson would put it, the car goes like stink. If given the choice, I'd take this over a F430 or the new California without hesitation. If I'm not mistaken, a copy was also built for Jay Leno that's ethanol powered.









Le Mans C6R

http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drive...otopanel..1.*#2

[QUOTE]There are lots of tuner Corvettes out there, but few come from actual racing companies. And only one comes from an outfit that has won at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, not to mention every road-racing venue in North America. And that would be the 2008 Pratt & Miller Corvette C6RS.

Blindingly powerful, incredibly sexy and surprisingly refined, the 600-horsepower C6RS is like a Chevrolet Corvette Z06, only better in every way. Really, it's practically a 2009 Corvette ZR1. Just don't call it a tuner car, at least not to Pratt & Miller's face.

"The C6RS is definitely not a tuner car," said Brandon Widmer, Pratt & Miller spokesman. Rather, he says, the Corvette Z06-based C6RS is "a fully developed supercar with a genuine racing heritage."

Turns out, it's a heritage that comes through loud and clear.

Big Noise From Michigan
Based since 1989 in New Hudson, Michigan, Pratt & Miller Engineering and Fabrication is pretty much unheard of outside the racing world. But Pratt & Miller has been GM's unofficial racing team for quite some time, building race-winning versions of the Chevrolet Corvette and the Cadillac CTS-V. The company is most famous for its class-winning efforts at the 24 Hours of Le Mans with the Corvette C5-R and C6.R, plus seven consecutive class championships in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS).

But Pratt & Miller has never built a road car. And it probably wouldn't have built the C6RS if some folks at Chevrolet hadn't asked Pratt & Miller to develop a package that could stimulate the sales of aftermarket accessories for the Corvette. The Pratt & Miller Corvette C6RS appeared at the 2007 SEMA show with Jay Leno leaning on the front fender.

One could say that the project got a little out of control. Though the car starts as a standard Corvette, Pratt & Miller leaves virtually nothing intact during its transformation. Think Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, not Corvette hot rod.

"There is not a part on this car you can bolt on," says Pratt & Miller's Widmer proudly.

The Opposite of Stock
The 2008 Pratt & Miller Corvette C6RS might look largely stock, but it ain't. During the transformation, lightweight carbon-fiber pieces replace all the bodywork, the deck lid and the coupe's targa bar. The hood features a huge waterfall vent to help extract heat from the engine beneath. The most distinctive aspect of the Pratt & Miller bodywork is the louvered fenders, a design borrowed directly from the Corvette C6.R racecar.

Wider fenders cover the massive 295/30R18 front and 345/30R19 rear tires, which are wrapped around racing-style, center-lock BBS wheels with 11-inch rims in front and 13.6-inch rims in the rear. As a result, the C6RS ends up 1.6 inches wider than the Corvette Z06. You really notice it from the rear, where the uncluttered rear end with its carbon-fiber aero diffuser makes a standard Z06 look positively puny.

The carbon-fiber front fascia is all business, with two brake ducts per side and a pronounced aero splitter that skims the pavement. No, you don't want to be charging up steep driveways in this car. (Fortunately the C6RS has a lift system to help jack up the nose in such cases.)

Unexpected Refinement
Likewise, the C6RS's interior is not the industrial zone you see in a racing car but instead a typical Corvette interior, only with soft, hand-stitched leather and unique Lear-built seats.

But the most significant change inside involves something you can't see or feel, but rather can hear. You see, all the standard Corvette's regular acoustic insulation has been replaced by 80 pounds of thick, multilayer Dynamat, even inside the door panels and under the cargo floor.

The result is a cabin virtually free of random ambient noise

 

Sweeet car...but I would rather take any Ferarri over it. When I'm at price point, aesthetics are BIG. I wouldnt want anything that even resembles a 40k car....no way. I dont even have to stretch that high. The R8 TDI Le Mans would do:

 

repost x10, and jays wasnt a copy, jays was the very first, jays vette was basically the mule.

 

that r8 looks sick!

 

I meant to say that he has an example. A video I saw agreed with you in saying that it was the first copy.

 

epic repost

 

That R8 Le Mans car is sick and even more so to me because it runs on diesel. I agree that the aesthetics are big but then look at the new Ferrari California and compare that to the C6 corvette convertible -- the side profiles look so similar. I guess you also wouldn't like the merc black series cars either.

 

Well this just came up on edmunds and this is the publicly produced car, not the one timer for Jay Leno.

 

Ehh...not really feeling the Black Series either. I'll wait until all the tape comes off though.

 

first pic looks photoshopped

i have a boner for any c6 so this car gives me wood. it's just proper.