The C8 Corvette was good already, and now it has a 670hp flat-plane crank V8...
Let’s start with the obvious problem with this review of an explicitly track-focussed almost supercar – I only drove it on road. Nor were these the sort of fast, flowing, quiet roads you would select if given free choice for a first turn in such a savage piece of performance machinery. No Alpine pass, no Scottish A-road, but rather a tight, trafficked and frequently bumpy corner of Michigan.
The reality is as good as those numbers make it sound, although it does come with a radical new soundtrack. With the exception of the C4 generation ZR1, which got a Lotus-designed quad-cam V8, every eight-cylinder Corvette has shared a variation on the same small-block soundtrack - a burbling idle with turns snarly with revs, but which is curtailed by a modest redline before it gets the chance to turn savage.
Choosing a Z06 is just where the decisions begin. Buyers can opt to add an optional aero pack for $8,495, which brings the raised backward boomerang profile rear wing and increases peak downforce to a claimed 330kg, more than twice that of the unadorned Z06.
The Z06 uses the same eight-speed twin clutch transmission as the regular C8, but with beefed-up internals and a shorter final drive ratio. The broadness of the engine’s muscle means plentiful opportunities to play with the carbon fibre shift paddles behind the steering wheel, something the quick-fire gearbox positively encourages under manual control. But on twisty roads I soon found it wasn’t actually necessary to make multiple changes: third gear is good from 30mph to past 80mph.
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