Corvette Z06 Review | Top Gear | BBC

Now whenever I'm presented with a group of Corvettes like this I always think I'm looking at a really good looking boy band, they're cheap and make a nice noise in a middle of the road sort of way, but behind the scenes they're all almost completely lacking. full of talent and are a bit weak. Look at it now, although there is a new Corvette that left the band and wants to be taken seriously, it's called zero six and there's no escaping the fact. which is very, very fun and probably loud like all Corvettes it has a v8 engine but it's not the 5.7 we've become accustomed to it has 7 liters it's the most powerful engine ever made by General Motors 500 brake horsepower and there's a lot of talk but I think it could probably outrun the fuel that powers it, let's find out with a quarter mile drag race between the car and a trail of gasoline and if you think that's surprising, what I'm going to do is put it in OK and here we are.

In fact, this would go from a standstill to a hundred and seventy-five, so it's a pretty phenomenal engine, but it doesn't really have much weight to carry, that's because its bumpers are made of carbon fiber, the base on the the engine settles. It's made of magnesium and the entire space frame is made of aluminum, whatever it is, what's more, they've even sacrificed some of the boy band looks in the never-ending quest to get the reflections in front of the wheels taken seriously front to improve downforce and reduce drag there is a larger mouth to improve cooling and in the exhausts there are butterfly valves to give a better vocal range then there is the engine that is not only larger than usual but is mounted more Below and further back the results of all this are dramatic, ready for the children of Miami.

I have turned most of the rear tires into smoke. There's a little more gum. There are some controllable ones. You even have time. I'll fight through a box to check your G meter which was 1.2 G. This car really is like Robbie Williams, who I imagine behind the tape with that nonsense was a real musician trying to get help. They say it can spin around the Nurburgring. It's nothing like an American car until you turn off the satnav. He has a kind of voice. okay, I'm going to press it, the system ready shows the fast food icons, the default setting is fast food, what American is there, they can't find London, they can't find France, but they will find you a Chinese burger.

The system displays the icons of the Chinese restaurants. Well, I have a good one. Araki Restaurants. That's right, shut up. The best thing about this car, however, is its price. You see, the number 6 Z costs £60,000 and the Ferrari 575 here it is. It weighs one hundred and sixty thousand pounds and if a Martian came to Earth, you'd have the devil's own job explaining why they both look more or less the same. Both have front engines. They are both about the same size. Both develop 500 horsepower. both can top 90 miles per hour and both can go from zero to 60 in under 4 seconds, so why is there a £100,000 price difference?

Well, you know? After a full day on the track, I can figure it out. Yes. Ferrari costs so much because it works on the track and it works on the road. This only works on one track. What are you saying? You can't use it on the road. No no. You can use it on the road legally. You just wouldn't want to. I'm not kidding driving home after filming, I made a list of all the things that are wrong, okay I know I really have the driveline tapped, you know when you put your foot down like you're on an accordion. to get out of the junk radios at low revs the engine honestly sounds like it's full of wrenches the roar of the tires you definitely can't hear anything it's too wide the steering wheels on the wrong side the row of trim so the ride breaks your reverses every time you go over something the

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box feels like it's coming off a track can I just say we've got the message there ok no I'm not kidding its something to live with everyone the days.

I'd rather have bird flu, okay? Now we must send him back to his natural territory, of course, to the track to see how he fares at all and that means, of course, handing him over to our docile racing driver. Some say he has a digital face and could shoot if he wanted to. Allan Sugar, all we know is that he called it Stig with a particularly fast start, as a result, okay, getting into the first corner stacking it, but a bit of tire squeal, completely dry trap actually seems very undramatic, a piece of that cheap steak, of course, still. learn Italian without big problems without drama again on the hammerhead maybe things will get lively here yes dad we want to visit Pompeii this morning he was chatting with the dog from Top Gear and interestingly they also share a bowl of water with seven liters of American water, because here he reaches the penultimate curve and says a little harshly.

Correction in Gambon, this is complicated. I highly doubt any of you believe this. He did it in a 22.4. Now you look, here's the Ferrari 575. down there, a 26.8, it's up there, it's faster than a Zonda, it's faster than a Ferrari 430, it's an amazing car, however, I maintain that if you plan on using it on a road , you'd better use a normal one.