The Supercar that's Not So Super: My Experience with the Chevrolet Corvette Z06

As I sat in the driver's seat of my Chevrolet Corvette Z06, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. The car was a beast on the road, with its powerful engine and responsive handling making it a joy to drive. But as I accelerated down the canyon roads, I realized that this car had some major flaws that were holding me back from truly experiencing its potential.

One of my biggest complaints about the Z06 is its poorly designed plastic trim. The "tacky" feel of the paddles and other exterior components was not only aesthetically unpleasing but also made it difficult to shift gears smoothly. I bet you can actually hear the time it takes to shift gear when you accelerate - it's a bit too slow for my liking, even with the crappy plasticky paddles that came with the car.

My other major issue with this car is its tendency to overheat. As I drove down from LA to Palm Springs, I got caught in some terrible traffic and found myself "cooked" inside the cabin of this car. My entire floor and central console were like they were on fire, with heat pouring out all around me. When I pulled over to film some shots, a guy in an old Corvette pulled up and told me that overheating was a common problem with the Z06 - I couldn't believe it.

I've had a few different Z06s now, and each experience has progressively gotten worse. As someone who's not particularly fond of soft-top cars anyway, I have to admit that I'm probably a little biased against this particular model. But after my disastrous drive yesterday, which put me in a bad mood about the car, I've been thinking more critically about its strengths and weaknesses.

There are many things that are amazing about the Z06 - its performance, for example, is incredible, especially out on the open road. Look at this weather - it's like 34 degrees, perfect Canyon roads to have the roof down, and it's a blast. But when you start thinking of it as "is this a supercar and would I pick this car over its competitors?" - that's when things get a little more complicated.

I've always believed that America has done something special with sports cars, making incredible machines that are cheaper than their European rivals. But after driving the Z06, I'm not so sure anymore. The car is certainly cool and fun to drive, but it's just not for me. I don't think it's a supercar in the way that I used to believe - at least, not when compared to other options on the market.

One thing that's still amazing about the Z06 is its soundtrack and the way it performs on the road - even as a convertible. Look, I got a smile on my face so it does some things amazingly, but right now all I can think about is staring down at that temperature gauge, terrified of what might happen next. Will the car just shut off? Or will we get lucky and make it to our destination without any issues?

I know that not everyone may share my negative experience with the Z06, and for that, I'm sorry. I hope this hasn't been too controversial - I've said a number of times in previous videos that you're extremely lucky if you own one, but still, it's a very cool car. And who knows? Maybe after a few more test drives, I'll come to realize just how amazing the Z06 is. But for now, it's not for me.

The Good and the Bad: A Look at the Chevrolet Corvette Z06

In conclusion, my experience with the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 was a mixed bag. On the one hand, there are many things that make this car special - its performance, for example, is incredible, especially out on the open road. And let's not forget about the soundtrack - it's like music to my ears.

But on the other hand, there are some major flaws that hold me back from truly enjoying this car. The poorly designed plastic trim and tendency to overheat are two issues in particular that I just can't seem to get past. It's a shame, really, because with a few tweaks and adjustments, this could be an incredible machine.

Despite my negative experience with the Z06, I still think it's worth considering for anyone who loves sports cars. The car is certainly fun to drive, and its performance on the road is unmatched by many of its rivals. So if you're thinking of adding a new ride to your collection - or just want to hear more about this incredible machine - stay tuned for plenty of videos in the coming weeks, including my collaboration with Matt Farah from Smoking Tire.

My Experience with the Corvette Z06: A Look Back

As I reflect on my experience with the Chevrolet Corvette Z06, I have to admit that it's left me a little shaken. The car is certainly cool and fun to drive, but its tendency to overheat and poorly designed plastic trim are major issues that I just can't seem to get past.

I've had a few different Z06s now, and each experience has progressively gotten worse. At first, I was excited to try out the new model - it seemed like a blast from a bygone era, with its powerful engine and responsive handling making it a joy to drive. But as time went on, I started to notice some major flaws.

One of the biggest complaints I have about the Z06 is its tendency to overheat. It's like the car is constantly trying to reach its peak performance, but at the same time, it's also trying to avoid overheating and shutting down completely. It's a delicate balance that the car struggles to achieve, and one that often leaves me feeling frustrated and disappointed.

I've tried to adjust my driving style to mitigate this issue - I've learned to ease off on the gas pedal when I see the temperature gauge start to rise, but it's not always easy. Sometimes the car just seems to get too hot, too fast, and I'm left wondering what I did wrong.

Despite its flaws, I still think the Z06 is an incredible machine - especially out on the open road. The car has a certain charm and character that makes it hard to resist, even when faced with its many drawbacks. But for me, at least, the negatives just outweigh the positives.

The Corvette Z06: A Look Back at My Experience

As I sit here reflecting on my experience with the Chevrolet Corvette Z06, I'm struck by how much I've learned about this car and what it's capable of. Despite its flaws - and I know they're significant - there's no denying that the Z06 is an incredible machine.

From a performance standpoint, the Z06 is in a league of its own. The car's powerful engine makes quick work of even the most challenging roads, and its responsive handling makes it a joy to drive. But when you start thinking about practicality and reliability - issues like overheating and poorly designed plastic trim that I mentioned earlier - things get a little more complicated.

For me, at least, the Z06 just isn't the right car for my needs. I need something that's going to last me for years to come, without breaking the bank or requiring constant repairs. And while the Z06 certainly delivers on performance, it falls short in these other areas.

So what's next? Will I continue to drive the Z06 and try to make it work, even with its many flaws? Or will I look elsewhere for a new ride that better meets my needs? Only time will tell, but one thing is certain - this car has left an indelible mark on my mind and heart.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello one and all welcome to scene through glass now I've been stood here for quite a while trying to work out how not to fall into another BMW M4 situation by slagging off a car so many people love then I thought screw it I'm leaving America in a few weeks why not now don't get me wrong there is plenty that is good about this car at the end of the day this is superc car performance it's a 6 .2 L V8 they can do n to 60 in 3.1 seconds for a convertible and in the UK the targetp version of this car is less than 100 Grand I'm not sure you can get close to that performance for those kind of numbers as a stock car also the soundtrack is pretty insane this car's also got a massive cold following the amount of people that have come out to me whilst I've been driving this car sorry I was in some kind of like natural valley tunnel there but yeah the amount of people that have come up to me whilst I've been driving this car and being like yeah awesome car man I'm like yeah it is a cool car and I was super excited when I picked it up I also absolutely loved my opportunity driving Damian's manual green Z06 which was the target top I also think the Z06 is a goodlook car now I'm not usually a fan of soft top convertibles so I'd probably pick the the coupe or the target top the extended front splitter the Bonnet vents the side the side SS and then this kind of Arrow Wing back here all tied in with the quadruple exhaust at the back I think this car can look awesome and in terms of handling on a road like this a twisty Canyon Road it handles amazingly however for me personally despite all of those good points there are too many crappy points about this car for me which start to bring it down one to kick things off that you may have already been made aware of is this what is that noise that is me changing gear I mean obviously the exhaust and engine sound great but that that is my Flappy panel it is officially the worst and most embarrassing noise in a sports car I've ever heard oh it's just so depressing when I had my opportunity to first step into an automatic Z06 I was so excited to just be playing around because that exhaust now and then I got these awful plastic poppy paddles and I was like it's just not cool it ruins the whole experience and yes you can be more gentle of course but you kind of want the drama you want that way yeah that flicking gears and it just unfortunately for me falls into that stereotype of American car cars that are slightly cheaper build quality or or have slightly less build quality this point also ties nicely into sort of my other frustration which is the gearbox itself um it's not bad please don't get me wrong I don't think it's bad and I haven't driven enough cars with enough gearboxes to know where this ratees I'm just basing it on my own personal experience and for me it's slow especially when you consider the performance figures this car offers because you have to you just have to consider this a superc car there's no way around it it is a supercar in terms of performance and when you look at the competition in terms of performance we're talking about 458 we're talking about R R8 V10 pluses McLaren 570 s's Etc the gearbox in those cars is is incredible unbeatable I mean just immediate and this I mean I I can display it because of the crappy tin plastic so if I accelerate you can actually physically hear the time it takes to shift gear and down I bet you now if you stepped into any of the competition of this car that would be near immediate even if you put the crappy plasticky paddles in there my other really main issue with this car which I think is across the Z06 range is that they overheat so if you saw yesterday's video you'll know I drove down from LA to Palm Springs got caught in the worst traffic and basically got cooked inside the cabin of this car my entire floor this Central console was like it was on fire heat was pouring out and when I drove with Damien in his Z06 he did mention that this overheating was like a a common feature with the Z06 and a big problem and hilariously I literally just pulled over up the road to film some shots and a guy in an old Corvette pulled up went oh hey man all good they overheat sometimes yeah and I was just waking up GoPros it hadn't even overheated he was so used to his overheating he was like that that must be what happened I find it so frustrating because I want this car to be so good a few of you picked up on previous videos that I did I mentioned you couldn't get the Z06 in the UK but apparently you can it's just an incredibly long and arduous ordering process but at £96,000 I think it is for the Z06 in the UK like that could have been a potential F type replacement and after driving Damian's manual I was like like this thing's amazing but since then I've been very lucky to get my hands on a few different z6s and each experience has progressively got worse I'm not necessarily a fan of soft top cars anyway so I'm probably going to be a little bit biased and I had this kind of disaster Drive yesterday which put me in a bad mood about the car as I said at the beginning there are tons of things which are amazing about this thing the performance and out here I mean look at this weather it's like 34° beautiful Canyon roads to have the roof down is amazing but when you start thinking of it as is this a super car and would I pick this car over its competitors I think the answer has to be no you know I hate being negative about cars especially cars that I know lots of people love but I just been frustrated with this thing and as you can see don't get me wrong it's a lot of fun and I think as I've said a number of times it's a Supercar I don't care what you say I don't care how common they are in America this is a Supercar and if you owned one you would surely love it and I guess put up with the crap because racing away from lights or around a track you're probably going to beat a lot of stuff that is a lot more expensive and isn't that what America has always done so well made incredible sports cars that are cheaper than the European Rivals and I generally thought when I first got a Z06 that that is exactly what had happened but I think now I'm afraid to say I no longer like or love the Z06 it's a very very cool car and I'm very pleased for anyone who owns one but personally not for me however that soundtrack and the way it performs on this road even as a convertible is pretty amazing and look I got a smile on my face so it does some things amazingly but right now all I keep doing is staring down at that temperature gauge terrified I'm about to go up in a ball of flames seems to be some kind of is it been an accident here I can't tell if there's been an an accident or everyone stood on the the side of the road oh big bad motorbike accident that's not good feel like maybe I should uh chill out a bit now driving up and down this road that's why people are like get a motorbike nope I'm good that was sketchy well I guess the good thing about the convertibles in6 is I can just put it into drive get out of track go into sport yeah not tour Sport and then cruise and enjoy this weather still have the soundtrack when I need it anyway guys I hope this hasn't been too controversial I hope I haven't offended or upset any people who might own Z6 is as I've said a number of times you extremely lucky it's still a very cool car still a very cool car but for me personally uh yeah not not the one make sure you subscribed anyway for plenty of videos still to come we got some really cool stuff happening next week as I say collaboration with Matt Farah the smoking Tire some other cool access I hopefully am filming the next episode for driveway goals so stay tuned and I will catch up with you guys very soonhello one and all welcome to scene through glass now I've been stood here for quite a while trying to work out how not to fall into another BMW M4 situation by slagging off a car so many people love then I thought screw it I'm leaving America in a few weeks why not now don't get me wrong there is plenty that is good about this car at the end of the day this is superc car performance it's a 6 .2 L V8 they can do n to 60 in 3.1 seconds for a convertible and in the UK the targetp version of this car is less than 100 Grand I'm not sure you can get close to that performance for those kind of numbers as a stock car also the soundtrack is pretty insane this car's also got a massive cold following the amount of people that have come out to me whilst I've been driving this car sorry I was in some kind of like natural valley tunnel there but yeah the amount of people that have come up to me whilst I've been driving this car and being like yeah awesome car man I'm like yeah it is a cool car and I was super excited when I picked it up I also absolutely loved my opportunity driving Damian's manual green Z06 which was the target top I also think the Z06 is a goodlook car now I'm not usually a fan of soft top convertibles so I'd probably pick the the coupe or the target top the extended front splitter the Bonnet vents the side the side SS and then this kind of Arrow Wing back here all tied in with the quadruple exhaust at the back I think this car can look awesome and in terms of handling on a road like this a twisty Canyon Road it handles amazingly however for me personally despite all of those good points there are too many crappy points about this car for me which start to bring it down one to kick things off that you may have already been made aware of is this what is that noise that is me changing gear I mean obviously the exhaust and engine sound great but that that is my Flappy panel it is officially the worst and most embarrassing noise in a sports car I've ever heard oh it's just so depressing when I had my opportunity to first step into an automatic Z06 I was so excited to just be playing around because that exhaust now and then I got these awful plastic poppy paddles and I was like it's just not cool it ruins the whole experience and yes you can be more gentle of course but you kind of want the drama you want that way yeah that flicking gears and it just unfortunately for me falls into that stereotype of American car cars that are slightly cheaper build quality or or have slightly less build quality this point also ties nicely into sort of my other frustration which is the gearbox itself um it's not bad please don't get me wrong I don't think it's bad and I haven't driven enough cars with enough gearboxes to know where this ratees I'm just basing it on my own personal experience and for me it's slow especially when you consider the performance figures this car offers because you have to you just have to consider this a superc car there's no way around it it is a supercar in terms of performance and when you look at the competition in terms of performance we're talking about 458 we're talking about R R8 V10 pluses McLaren 570 s's Etc the gearbox in those cars is is incredible unbeatable I mean just immediate and this I mean I I can display it because of the crappy tin plastic so if I accelerate you can actually physically hear the time it takes to shift gear and down I bet you now if you stepped into any of the competition of this car that would be near immediate even if you put the crappy plasticky paddles in there my other really main issue with this car which I think is across the Z06 range is that they overheat so if you saw yesterday's video you'll know I drove down from LA to Palm Springs got caught in the worst traffic and basically got cooked inside the cabin of this car my entire floor this Central console was like it was on fire heat was pouring out and when I drove with Damien in his Z06 he did mention that this overheating was like a a common feature with the Z06 and a big problem and hilariously I literally just pulled over up the road to film some shots and a guy in an old Corvette pulled up went oh hey man all good they overheat sometimes yeah and I was just waking up GoPros it hadn't even overheated he was so used to his overheating he was like that that must be what happened I find it so frustrating because I want this car to be so good a few of you picked up on previous videos that I did I mentioned you couldn't get the Z06 in the UK but apparently you can it's just an incredibly long and arduous ordering process but at £96,000 I think it is for the Z06 in the UK like that could have been a potential F type replacement and after driving Damian's manual I was like like this thing's amazing but since then I've been very lucky to get my hands on a few different z6s and each experience has progressively got worse I'm not necessarily a fan of soft top cars anyway so I'm probably going to be a little bit biased and I had this kind of disaster Drive yesterday which put me in a bad mood about the car as I said at the beginning there are tons of things which are amazing about this thing the performance and out here I mean look at this weather it's like 34° beautiful Canyon roads to have the roof down is amazing but when you start thinking of it as is this a super car and would I pick this car over its competitors I think the answer has to be no you know I hate being negative about cars especially cars that I know lots of people love but I just been frustrated with this thing and as you can see don't get me wrong it's a lot of fun and I think as I've said a number of times it's a Supercar I don't care what you say I don't care how common they are in America this is a Supercar and if you owned one you would surely love it and I guess put up with the crap because racing away from lights or around a track you're probably going to beat a lot of stuff that is a lot more expensive and isn't that what America has always done so well made incredible sports cars that are cheaper than the European Rivals and I generally thought when I first got a Z06 that that is exactly what had happened but I think now I'm afraid to say I no longer like or love the Z06 it's a very very cool car and I'm very pleased for anyone who owns one but personally not for me however that soundtrack and the way it performs on this road even as a convertible is pretty amazing and look I got a smile on my face so it does some things amazingly but right now all I keep doing is staring down at that temperature gauge terrified I'm about to go up in a ball of flames seems to be some kind of is it been an accident here I can't tell if there's been an an accident or everyone stood on the the side of the road oh big bad motorbike accident that's not good feel like maybe I should uh chill out a bit now driving up and down this road that's why people are like get a motorbike nope I'm good that was sketchy well I guess the good thing about the convertibles in6 is I can just put it into drive get out of track go into sport yeah not tour Sport and then cruise and enjoy this weather still have the soundtrack when I need it anyway guys I hope this hasn't been too controversial I hope I haven't offended or upset any people who might own Z6 is as I've said a number of times you extremely lucky it's still a very cool car still a very cool car but for me personally uh yeah not not the one make sure you subscribed anyway for plenty of videos still to come we got some really cool stuff happening next week as I say collaboration with Matt Farah the smoking Tire some other cool access I hopefully am filming the next episode for driveway goals so stay tuned and I will catch up with you guys very soon\n"