Z06 enters the supercar segment—and changes the game

[kewl]

It's a little long, but worth the read.
http://www.autoweek.com/article.cms?articleId=103066



“I saw an automobile once when I was a kid, but now they’re everywhere. The world went and got itself in a big damn hurry.”

When recently paroled Brooks Hatlen penned those words to his former prison mates in the film The Shaw-shank Redemption, he meant them as an indictment of a world that bore no resemblance to the one he knew pre-incarceration. Fifty years on the inside will do that to a man.

As far as the “big damn hurry” goes, he may as well have been talking about today. It wasn’t long ago pre-pubescent boys triggered a running shortage on Lamborghini Countach and Ferrari Testarossa posters. In the golden, bewinged and bestraked supercar age of the 1980s six figures bought you machines that you might now mistake for the work of a remedial Art Center student. Drive almost anything from that era short of a Porsche 959 or Ferrari F40 and you’d be justified in wondering what all the fuss was about.

[Evolution]

I love the new Corvette. A lot of bang for the buck... But the Z06 version... Man, you can't give more bang for the buck than that. Sure, it's the most expensive Corvette yet, but look at the performance numbers. I'll say it one last time - You can't give more bang for the buck than that.

BTW... Check this out http://www.autoblog.com/entry/1234000577048776/ . Apparently, a 600hp Vette is being tested... It just keeps getting better and better .

[kewl]

They kinda mentioned the Blue Devil in the first article, and I was meaning to google it to find out more...but I forgot too. So thank you for the reminder and info.

2900lbs and 600HP would be quite the tandom.