easy_rider911:

You do realise that this thread started back in 2006 so the comments made back then were in reference to older models .... those guys would need to be clairvoyants to be making comments back in 2006 that would still automatically hold true in 2011. 

My post wasn't about referencing facts / times of the past -- so much as pointing at the nose-up presumptuous attitude the Porsche guy's seemed to have about the Z06 - the attitude that puts me off wanting to be associated with them by owning a Porsche.

[Not that there aren't negative connotations to having a Vette.]

Also, I wasn't sure if the new Z06 time/video had been posted... and it's pretty notable.

2012 Z06 (same car, with updated GM suspension and tires, otherwise - no changes, same engine, chassis, weight, power, etc.)

2012 Z06 - 7.22.6

That's 4 seconds off the 7:18 Porsche 911 GT2 RS .. which costs over 4x as much sticker to sticker!

And better than...

7:28.71 Porsche Carrera GT
7:32.02 Porsche 911 GT2 (2008)
7:32.92 Ferrari 458 Italia
7:33 Porsche 911 GT3 RS 997MkII

And obviously many more;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_Nordschleife_lap_times

The irony here is that I'd prefer to own a good old 997.1 TT over my C6Z any day personally [AWD & living in Canada], but I registered to comment on the bad taste in my mouth left by the response of the presumably "Porsche Guys" back at the start of the thread.