The high-end supercar segment is a little like Formula 1 racing—it’s a club that doesn’t include many Americans. Of the nearly 800 drivers who’ve ever competed in the series, only about 7 percent have been Americans, and a pitiful number of them have won many races, with the last to do so being Italian-born Mario Andretti—in 1978. Perhaps not coincidentally, of all the hyper- and supercars available globally, just a meager handful are built here in pickuptruckland—mostly at boutique shops like Hennessey, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, and SSC North America—and sold mostly for seven-figure prices.
Into the breach comes the 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 with the Z07 package from the decidedly un-boutique house of General Motors, seemingly meeting all the qualifications for membership in the fraternal order of supercars. Should buyers contemplating purchase of an Olde World supercar from the likes of McLaren (eight F1 constructors’ championships) or Lamborghini (seven GT3 championships) also kick the tires of the mid-engine Corvette Z06, developed by Corvette Racing (eight Le Mans class wins)? To find out, we rounded up a Z06 and two of the hottest new supercars available—the 2022 McLaren 765LT Spider and the 2023 Lamborghini Huracán LP 640-2 Tecnica—and spent a week flogging them in our initiation trials. We need to state right here at the top that these cars enjoy much parity of performance but not price, as the cost difference between each is roughly the price of this Corvette. Unlike PVOTY (pg. supercar, full stop.
