Hello,

I hope the following will sound interesting for some of you :
Having Read full reports from. US magazines (Car and Driver, Road and Track), I was quite
Impatient to Read Z06 testings from Euro magazines.
Finally, the french weekly mag published today full report of the Corvette C6 Z06.
This is a quite good quality magazine, very much oriented in Sports (Formula One, WRC, Champcar)
With very useful informations and interviews..(maybe Fanch can give his opinion about it ?).

Anyway, here are the results :

Corvette C6 Z06
Measured weight : 1440 kgs (vs 1419 factory)
0-100 km/h (0-62 mph) : 4.6 s
(little disapointing because of poor traction partly due to cold conditions 0* C)
400 m from. Standing still : 12.4 s
1000 m from. Standing still : 21.8 s


For , here is what they measured in the past :

Ferrari Enzo (August 2003, hot sunny day on Fiorano test track)
0-100 km/h : 3.5s
400m : 11.2 s
1000m : 19.6 s

One precision to anticipate Lynx eye answer :
The Enzo testing was made with factoy test driver
Dario Benuzzi behind the wheel, and the journalist
with him..
0-100 km/h and 400m was measured with the magazine equipment
1000m is a guess based upon
acceleration curve since of course there is no
1000m straight on Fiorano



Mercedes SL65 AMG (September 2004, hot sunny day, same driver as z06 today)
Measured weight : 2045 kgs
0-100 km/h : 4.8s
400m : 12.7s
1000m : 22.4s

Ferrari 575M HGTC (tested same day than SL65 in comparo, same driver as z06 today)
Measured weight : 1780 kgs
0-100 km/h : 5.2 s
400m : 13.3s
1000m : 23.2s

Gallardo E-gear (May 2004, sunny day, same driver as z06 tocay)
Measured weight : 1605 kgs
0-100 km/h : 5.2s
400m : 13.4s
1000m : 23.3s
(they had somme troubles with electronics of E-gear, thus so-so results ??)

Porsche 996 TT 420hp (tested same day than Gallardo, same driver as z06 today)
Measured weight : 1595 kgs
0-100 km/h : 4.6s
400m : 12.9s
1000m : 23s

Porsche 997 CarreraS with PCCB (October2004, same driver as z06 today)
Measured weight : 1450 kgs
0-100 km/h : 5s
400m : 13.3s
1000m : 23.5s

Aston Martin V8 Vantage (February2006, same driver than z06 today)
Measured weight : 1625 kgs
0-100 km/h : 5.4s
400m : 13.5s
1000m : 24s


I think this comparison is interesting because it all has been done with THE SAME driver, and they usually
use always the same place for performances measurement.


Overall, he found the Z06 highly impressive despite issues like lack of support from seats and little brake fade during hard track (ab)use...

I find especially the 1000m acceleration
time astounding

Enjoy !

My apologies for English faults as this is not my mother langage...

PS : here is the scan; Of course it's in French ... some of you will be able to Read it;
I guess ALL of you will be able to understand the figures !