C6 Corvette ZR1 Shows We Didn’t Know How Good We Had It

Does anyone else remember early 2009? Obama was just inaugurated, Circuit City was closing, Bernie Madoff pleaded guilty and I was in the sixth grade looking for my first girlfriend. While all that was happening, though, General Motors was getting ready to launch its masterpiece: the C6 Chevy Corvette ZR1. To me, it is the absolute peak of Corvettes, and now we get a chance to relive its early days through the latest MotorWeek Retro Review.

Like all MW reviews, this one starts off with our hero John Davis standing outside a copper-colored (remember when every car was copper?) ZR1 using his outside-voice-all-the-time voice. He lays out the specs and highlights: 638 supercharged horsepower, adjustable suspension and Brembo brakes. Babes, this is “as close to a street-legal Corvette race car as you can get.” Luckily, MotorWeek brought the ZR1 to a race track to push it to the limits. That’s right folks, they’re at the Roebling Road Raceway in Bloomingdale, Georgia.