Monday, February 21, 2011

MotorTrend Pits the Corvette Z06, Shelby GT500 and Nissan GT-R Against Each Other


What weights ten tonnes and costs more than US$240,000? If you said, �a gold plated bulldozer�, you�d be close but no cigar. The answer is three sub-100k supercars: the Chevy Corvette Z06, Ford Shelby GT500 and Nissan GT-R. These three industry titans, with nameplates stretching as far back as the 1960s, were the recent subjects of an epic comparison test by MotorTrend. Here are three would-be-supercars � over 500hp and 3 second 0 to 60 mph times � that don�t command the supercar price tag. Read more �