In which the age-old question is once again raised: Can you water ski behind a car?
From the February 1997 issue of Car and Driver.For 44 years now, Chevrolet has been mistakenly building the Corvette. This is absurd because any dictionary will tell you a corvette is not a car, but a small, lightly armed, fast warship. Well, last year, GM finally wised up and licensed the Corvette name to Malibu Boats.
The Corvette LT4 convertible can storm to 160 mph—some 103 mph faster than the boat. But why? Das Boot weighs 960 pounds less than the car and has 70 more horsepower. For starters, ski boats have a one-speed transmission and a single-pitch prop that essentially serve as governors. Tournament ski boats also carry their engines amidships to generate minimal wake, but this creates copious hydrodynamic drag.
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