2007 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 vs. 2007 Lotus Exige S, 2007 Porsche 911 GT3 - Car and Driver
It's a sad paradox that, as performance for the dollar increases, the places you can exploit this newfound potential become increasingly regulated and overrun with other motorists. With the cars we corralled for this comparison, high-speed testing conducted exclusively on public roads would not have been the smart move. Exploiting all of a Chevrolet Corvette Z06's 505 horsepower on anything but a safe test facility is asking for trouble. This ultra-fast version of the American-sports-car icon has serious performance credentials, a terrific price-to-speed ratio with a base price of 70 large, and quite an impressive motorsports heritage. But, then, so does Porsche's '07 911 GT3, which is named for a class in FIA and American Le Mans sports-car racing and, indeed, is the homologation model required for entry into those races. The GT3 starts at $106,795 and then goes skyward — ours had the ceramic brake package and rang in at $120,670. That's more than double the $57,915 entry price of the 2007 Lotus Exige S. This supercharged version of the best Lotus sports car ever... A belt-driven supercharger on the familiar Toyota-sourced four-banger gives the Exige 220 horsepower, which is getting closer to the rightful amount of. Source: www.caranddriver.com
