The New Corvette Z06 Is an Amazing Sports Car, but Is It Good at Autocrossing? - Car and Driver (blog)
The Corvette Z06 and I go way back. A 2002 Z06 was the first test car I ever wrote about, back when having 405 horsepower warranted carrying a badge that read “405 HP. ” Those early cars were voted “Most Likely to Have Their Titanium Mufflers Replaced With Glasspacks Because The... A few years later, I got the first crack at the new and way-overhauled C6 Z06 , a scary car to drive at the limit. The equalizer: I’d have the Z06, while he’d drive a Chevy Cobalt SS. My editors were not confident that this was a great challenge—they thought Junior would cream me anyway. I’ll bet I could do all right in the United States Pro Kart Series, too, as long as I got to drive an Audi R18. Over the years came more Z06 experiences: scything through Ohio cornfields in a cammed-up Lingenfelter Z06, which at idle felt like... Christmas of ’06, I brought my tree home on the roof of a silver Z06. And about five years ago, I took my mailman on his route in a Corvette. It got 3 mpg, which is one reason that the U. S. Postal Service generally refrains from using supercharged Corvettes. The 2015 Z06 hadn’t been out long when I got ahold of one and started brainstorming the next chapter in my book of Dumb Z06 Activities. Source: www.caranddriver.com
