The engine might be in the middle, but the mightiest Corvette returns as the supercar with a muscle-car mindset.

There was a manual gearbox available too – remember those? – but this marked the end of the road for floor-mounted clutches ...

The C6 Z06 boasts the most powerful naturally-aspirated V8 General Motors engine of its time. “It’s big, and it’s got big power,” DeMuro noted, with 500 horsepower and a manual transmission.

To remind you, the Z06 arrived for the 2006 model year as a homologation vehicle. It packed a 7-liter V8 engine capable of pushing 505 hp (512 ps) and 470 lb-ft (637 Nm) of torque.

Still, it’s no match for the new C8 Z06 and that’s almost clear from the moment we hear its distinctive exhaust note. Created by a 5.5-liter flat-plane crank V8, it develops 670 hp and revs to ...

Meet the Chevrolet LT7 Small-Block V-8 As with the 638-hp C6 ZR1 and the 755-hp C7 ZR1, the 2025 C8 Corvette ZR1’s tremendous output is the result of engineers squeezing as much power as possible from ...

With a 394-hp advantage, the 2025 Chevrolet C8 Corvette ZR1 will obliterate the naturally aspirated 670-hp C8 Z06 around a racetrack, but its mission is broader than laying down heroic lap times.