Imagine Target trumping Saks Fifth Avenue. Timex outshining Rolex. Chevy beating Lamborghini.
Actually, that last one should come as no surprise. The Chevrolet Corvette added to its status as the world’s most affordable supercar this summer as it emerged the king of the 2015 Car & Driver Lightning Lap competition at Virginia International Raceway - out-running such thoroughbreds as the $353,115 McLaren 650S Spider, $274,120 Lamborghini Huracan, and the $163,000 Porsche 911 GT3.
So quick was the $100,245 Z06 — Corvette’s 650-horsepower performance model — that in the nine-year history of the famed Lightning Lap only one car has ever recorded a faster time: The 2014 Porsche 918 hybrid, a carbon-fiber cyborg from the future that costs nearly nine times the Corvette. The $875,175 Porsche was faster by a mere 1.5 seconds. That’s over $250,000 per half second.
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