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Video: Onboard a Corvette Z06 attacking the Nürburgring

12th June 2023
Ethan Jupp

What was the moment that we actually sat up and took American performance cars seriously here in Europe? The Ford GT? Perhaps, though that was a specially-developed supercar. The Dodge Viper? Still a bit crude… No, I’d argue it was the C6 Corvette Z06, of 2006. 

Why? Because it was so fast and so capable – enough to worry supercars of the day – without breaking the bank or being a limited-production special. This was Chevrolet’s equivalent of a 911 GT3 and it was almost every bit the equivalent. It’s for this reason and a few others that these cars are extremely popular, among their German rivals, as tools with which to attack the Nürburgring.

And that’s where you find us today, on board a tricked-out C6 Z06 for a properly fast lap of the Green Hell, passing the locals with ease, in a car built an Ocean away. It’s certainly an aural experience, as the driver pulls no punches when wringing out that 7.0-litre LS7 small block. What a car. One day, I will own one…

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