Corvette Z07 To Take On The Exotics... Again

by Erin Mays (RSS feed)
May 21st 2007 at 7:08PM

The Chevrolet Corvette has always been at the top of the stack in terms of American sports cars, but as Chevrolet sets the bar higher and higher with each new 'Vette, the world is starting to take notice of the car as one of the best... period. No "American" qualifier about it.

Still, eyebrows rose when KGP Photography caught a Chevrolet Z07 (the next all-new, top-of-the-line 'Vette slated for production) testing against a Ferrari 599 -- Chevrolet can't be looking at the Ferrari 599 as the Corvette's competition for real, can it? Maybe, maybe not, but the real juice to this story is the fact that the current standard Corvette (not the high-powered Z06) shares Ferrari's magnetic suspension system, developed by Delphi.

This development is very fitting, particularly since critics occasionally hint that the last big hurdle for the Corvette to clear in dropping the "American" qualifier is the vehicle's handling. Can Chevy/Delphi tune the suspension system to handle the 500+ horsepower the Z07 will offer up? Time will tell, but we're sure many folks out there are looking forward to Ferrari performance in a $100,000 package.

[via Autoblog]

Tags: 500 horsepower, 500Horsepower, chevrolet corvette, ChevroletCorvette, corvette, delphi, ferrari 599, Ferrari599, suspension

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William Ehlert May 21st 2007 11:00PM

All I wonder about is, is it a Z 07
or is it a Z 06? I was not aware
chevrolett had changed the class
number on its car. I would rather
that the number were an 07 or even
08 as a six seems inferrior by at
least one.
But the Corvette is awesome to say
the least when you compare what
you get for what you pay and that
is compared to any car, period.

Photo Tim May 22nd 2007 2:55AM

This is no doubt a test run of the Corvette "Blue Devil" Do a Google search on it.

MarkP May 22nd 2007 9:16AM

Actually, the Ferrari uses a form of the Corvette's magnetic suspension. Not the other way around. The Corvette was the first to come out with this technology and the Ferrari, only recently, started using a similar form of it.

MarkP
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