Yesterday, General Motors introduced the extra high-performance Corvette Z06, a fit-for-the-street racecar boasting at least 625 horsepower. The Detroit Free Press reports:
The 2015 Corvette Z06, revealed in a press conference at the Detroit auto show, sharesan aluminum frame with its high-profile sister, the Corvette Stingray, but it’s distinguished by an 6.2-liter “supercharged” V8 mated with a custom-made eight-speed automatic transmission.
The Z06 was GM’s fastest car
It also boasts a tremendous amount of “downforce,” an engineering term describing a car’s ability to hug the road when it barrels around corners. Most mass-market vehicles are exactly the opposite: they have too much lift when cornering.
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