| What is a Corvette? | | | | following in the tradition of its predecessors. |
| This monster of a subcompact hatchback has been | | | | Another thing that sets this car aside is that is not |
| raising hell in city streets and open highways since | | | | offered with an automatic transmission. If you want to |
| Chevrolet introduced it to the public. It has become a | | | | drive it, you are going to have to do it manually which |
| legend on its own, and improving such a thing of | | | | is the only way you can truly enjoy the driving |
| beauty may pose a challenge to even the craftiest | | | | experience of a car such as this. What transfers all |
| engineers. | | | | those amazing mass of power to the wheels is a |
| But Chevrolet has no intention of just stopping with | | | | six-speed manual transaxle, meaning the transmission |
| what they have. It must have been a welcome | | | | and the rear axle are integrated into one component. |
| challenge for what they have done to the new model | | | | Doing this helps in weight distribution and in the entire |
| of the Corvette Z06 is simply genius. The company | | | | stability and handling of the car. |
| has again raised the bar not only for their competition | | | | With all the power and the fact that it can go from 0 |
| but for them as well in releasing the newest edition of | | | | to 60 in 3.7 seconds, noise is one of the more |
| the Corvette Z06. | | | | prominent identifications of the car. All the noise and |
| The latest Z06 is immediately noticeable as a | | | | vibrations from engine though is no threat to the high |
| Corvette, it has all the telltale signs of where it comes | | | | performance Chevrolet parts in the entire car. |
| from, with the exterior designs just altered a little bit to | | | | Anyway, the noise of all those 505 horses is music to |
| exude more aggressiveness on its styling and to also | | | | the ears of performance car enthusiasts. Anyone who |
| lower the coefficient of drag. | | | | has heard how a Corvette sounds like knows that |
| All adjustments to the roof panel, floorpan and fender | | | | well. |
| liners are to increase the rigidity of the structure of this | | | | With a top speed of 198 mph and an awesome |
| unique Corvette. However, this is not to say that the | | | | acceleration, this has got to have one of the most |
| original structure is weak, but the manufacturer just | | | | responsive braking systems. And of course, it has. It |
| increased it to handle what extra power the engineers | | | | uses disc brakes on the front and rear wheels, 14 and |
| have bestowed on the car. | | | | 13.4 inches in diameter respectively. Calipers on the |
| While it may look like other 'Vettes, what is under the | | | | front are pushed by six pistons and four pistons on the |
| hood is what separates it from other models - the | | | | rear brake calipers. It also uses an anti-lock braking |
| standard 6.0 liter LS2 V8 engine with a maximum | | | | system which features a "competition driving" mode. |
| output of 400 horsepower which all Corvette carries is | | | | All these features designed to increase the safety of |
| not what the Z06 employs. Instead it carries a much | | | | the driver, after all it is a Corvette and it is just like |
| meaner 7.0 liter, LS7 engine which gives a massive | | | | being strapped to a rocket and blasted at an |
| 505 horsepower at 6300 revolutions per minute and | | | | astounding speed. And with the addition of more |
| 470 lb.ft. of torque at 4800 revs. That is a whole lot of | | | | power and the improved design of the car, this rocket |
| power and that makes the Z06 cut above the rest, | | | | of a car would be much faster. |