![]() This latest Z06 is still a value, though Chevy has clearly been studying Porsche's pricing practices. It's in fifth place on the all-time Lightning Lap leaderboard, at a price well under half of everything above it. If we're talking lap times, the Z06 is the winner, a full two seconds ahead at Virginia International Raceway in our Lightning Lap crucible. Greg Pajo | Car and Driver 2nd Place: Chevrolet Corvette Z06 These are two of the most special and involving sports cars on the market, but of course we're going to pick a winner. We don't think there are two other cars that could do 850 miles this comfortably (really, the only thing that got old was excessive road noise) and then eviscerate everything else on track. To drink fully from these two deep wells, we drove them down to some of our favorite roads in southern Ohio, then back to western Michigan for a track day at the 2.1-mile GingerMan Raceway. But for all the arguments about mid- versus rear-engine configuration, these two carry an all but identical 60 percent of their mass on the hind axle. The Z06 started larger and hasn't grown quite as much, with a 9 percent increase in footprint, yet its weight has ballooned 565 pounds, or 18 percent. Compared with the first 996-generation car, the latest GT3 has a footprint (track width times wheelbase) that's 10 percent larger, yet the car has gained a mere 27 pounds, a weight increase of less than 1 percent. Porsche has done a remarkable job of keeping the 911 GT3's weight in check. ![]()
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