Corvette C7, the seventh-generation of the Corvette sports car, was born in 2013. Offering tremendous handling that rivalled European sports cars and a better price-performance ratio, it is a well-deserved pride of the American automotive industry.
A year later, the Corvette C7 Z06, the performance version of the Corvette C7, set a lap time of 7:13.9 at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. This was the best time for a manual transmission car on the Nürburgring, surpassing the lap time of 7:19.63 set by the previous-generation Corvette C6 ZR1, The Corvette C7 is Corvette’s last front mid-engine car. The body structure of its successor, the Corvette C8, changed to a mid-mounted layout. The father of the Corvette originally conceived the Corvette as a mid-engine racing car.