James Gilboy of The Drive covered
the story last week about the very last available C7 Corvette, which is going
to be sold at a charity auction this June. It has been confirmed that the car
to be sold at an auction is a black 2019 Chevy Corvette Z06, flaunting 650
horsepower and an equal torque rating placing it robustly and firmly within the
supercar category. It's the model that achieved a 7:13.9 around the famed
Nurburging track in an independent test, and a perfect car to honor
hard-working military members from all walks of life.
GM, GMC, and Chevy proudly support the Stephen
Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which is committed to helping injured and
fallen members of the military. It was named in honor of the New York Fire
Department's Stephen Siller, a firefighter who was killed in the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Over the past five years, GM has collaborated to
provide more than $10 million into the foundation, which uses the money to
build mortgage-free housing for individuals affected by seriously wounded
former members of the armed forces.
The Z06 is currently scheduled to make its
appearance on the auction stand on June 28, at the Barrett-Jackson event in
Connecticut. Last year during a similar function, the 2019 ZR1 fetched
$925,000, and so hopes are quite high for this year's model to climb into six
or seven figures. It has been difficult to get any official comment about the
stoppage in production for the C7, but most unconfirmed sources agree that this
is the end of the road for the car for now. Six very exciting decades and as
many model generations of outstanding sales success have clearly assured the
Chevy Corvette of its well-deserved place in the automotive hall of fame.
As the folks on staff at Autoblog claimed,
“little else in all of cardom looks as low or as long as this car in profile”.
While in actuality the C7 is just a touch longer than a Porsche 911, it just
has a longer and sleeker stance, and all of us here at Jim Butler agreed
there was really nothing else like it on the road. Instead of coil springs,
Chevy continued with composite transverse leaf springs because they provide the
compact stature that delivers the Corvette's jaw-dropping appearance. The
engine in the C7 made 50 lb/ft more torque than the previous model's V8, and
the 0 to 60 test was completed in an impressive 4.2 seconds. Within this review by the folks at Roadshow,
you see the many reasons they claim that the Corvette is “Simply one of
the best performance car values available anywhere”.