Does it get any more American than that? Sure, we could include the cliché baseball and apple pie, but it’s the Corvette that might best define what it means to be an American. Like many Americans, the Corvette tries really hard to be good looking, could probably stand to lose a few pounds, and can’t quite keep up with its fancy European peers. The new Corvette ZR1, however, might finally be the car to outshine its European counterparts. Well, maybe not all of them. Sports cars and supercars, especially those of European heritage, are traditionally graded by the time it takes for them to get around the Green Hell. That, of course, is the nickname for Germany’s Nurburgring Nordschleife, the track that serves as a proving ground for the world’s greatest cars. The current speed record for getting around that 12.9-mile track is a blistering 06:47.3, recently set by the new $300,000 Porsche 911 GT2 RS, which just might be the fastest (and sexiest) street car ever built. The Wall Street Journal‘s Dan Neil experienced the car first-hand and wrote,
And no, the Corvette ZR1 is not expected to take the ‘Ring crown from Porsche. But it might come close. Currently, the only two cars to record times under 7 minutes are the aforementioned Porsche and the Lamborghini Huracán Performante. If the ZR1 performs as Chevy engineers expect, we can add the Corvette to that exclusive club at a price of less than half the 911 GT2 RS’s. The Corvette has come a long way in recent years and is now a bona fide supercar, at least in the ZR1 trim, with performance numbers within spitting distance of Porsche’s top dog. Has the Corvette improved enough for you to take one home instead of a Porsche 911? -tgriffith Find Certified Pre-Owned Cars and Used Cars in your area at CarGurus. Used Chevrolet Corvette Shopping for a new vehicle? Corvette ZR1 to Challenge Porsche 911 for Fastest Time Around the ‘Ring posted first on http://www.cargurus.com/blog/ via Blogger Corvette ZR1 to Challenge Porsche 911 for Fastest Time Around the ‘Ring
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