2007 Corvette Convertible

When you are hitting as many home runs as GM has recently, the obvious question comes to mind: are steroids involved?  Is this really the golden age of automotive endeavors for GM, or has CEO Rick Wagoner spiked the proverbial punchbowl with “the cream” or “the clear." 

We decided to open our own investigation into matters. We went after the beefiest, hardest hitting vehicle in GM’s lineup, the C6 Corvette: specifically, a 2007 Monterey Red convertible.

I mean, how can this car not be on 'roids? Our paddle shifter automatic was blazingly fast, ripping off a 0-60 time of 4.5 seconds. The Vette’s quarter mile time did nothing to help its case either, tearing through the gates in 12.8 seconds at 112 mph. Not a court in the country could ignore the evidence, but we needed more. The skidpad results were equally damning, as the Z51 equipped Vette pulled .95 g’s on the skid pad. The Corvette handled like a world-class athlete no matter what situation you handed it.  

If the stopwatch numbers were not proof enough, it would be impossible to ignore the split personality the mighty Vette displayed. One minute the C6 was as sweet as candy, happily tooling around the city in bumper to bumper traffic. The car was so comfortable in fact that on a road trip, my buddy and I passed our destination by nearly an hour, both looking at each other, vehemently denying we had been in the car that long. 

Just as we were starting to rethink our hypothesis, 'roid rage set in. Granted we did downshift three gears and stomped the accelerator, but really, is an outburst like the Vette showed really necessary?  Squealing tires, throaty engine howls and neck-snapping acceleration were a sobering example of what laid hidden below the fiberglass shell of this sports car.

Speaking of shells, this one is beautiful. Low, lean and sinewy, the Vette appears to be leaping forward when standing still and going at warp speed when on the move. The car is muscular, even bulging, from the doors back to the chromed exhaust pipes. The rear tires are so wide, they might as well have just connected the two. Could this really happen in nature?

We have gathered the evidence, reviewed it carefully and render our verdict. The 2007 Corvette is the best sports car, dollar for dollar, in the world.*

*Translation: This car rocks. It is unbelievably civil while remaining devastatingly fast and agile, one of the great automotive bargains in history.

-- Chad Doering