From the December 2023 issue of Car and Driver.
0–150–0 mph: 22.5 seconds
Base: $144,280 | As-Tested: $167,605
Power and Weight: 670 hp • 3672 lb • 5.5 lb/hp
Tires: Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 R ZP; F: 275/30ZR-20 (97Y) TPC, R: 345/25ZR-21 (104Y) TPC
Brakes, F/R: 15.7-in vented, cross-drilled carbon-ceramic disc/15.4-in vented, cross-drilled carbon-ceramic disc
The Z06 is a road-course car, not a drag racer. But its performance here proved that it’s game to trip the beam at your nearest staging lights, cracking off an 11.3-second quarter-mile. The Z06’s launch control is manually adjustable, but we got the best times in auto mode, letting the car learn the surface and adjust its aggression accordingly. By about 144 mph, the numbers climb a digit at a time, so it’s relatively easy to get close to a true 150 mph. As you’d hope, the brakes are stupendous, and it’s all over a lot quicker than it started.
The Z06 vanquished its natural foe, the GT3 RS, by almost two seconds, but its margin was narrower against another rival from inside its own brood—the Lingenfelter Corvette ZR1 from 1998, which completed the test in an astounding 23.3 seconds. Think about that: A naturally aspirated C4 Corvette, 25 years ago, could beat a modern Porsche GT3 RS and nearly hang with a C8 Z06. (In fact, the Lingenfelter’s 150-mph time, 15.6 seconds, bested everything at Oscoda except the 911 Turbo.) Makes you wonder what those folks could do with a C8.
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Senior Editor
Ezra Dyer is a Car and Driver senior editor and columnist. He’s now based in North Carolina but still remembers how to turn right. He owns a 2009 GEM e4 and once drove 206 mph. Those facts are mutually exclusive.
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