Corvette Z06 Goes Drag Racing, Meets One Bad Mercedes V-Class MPV

Its oil burning days are gone, as the firepower is supposedly supplied by the 4.0-liter bi-turbo V8, taken from AMG’s shelves. In the current configuration, it’s said to produce 585 horsepower, so it definitely has the grunt to go drag racing, which it did, at the SCC500 Roling50 1000 event in Germany.

It was there that the bad V-Class, unofficially named the V63, was filmed putting its money where its mouth is against some fearsome rivals, including a Chevrolet Corvette C6 Z06. We don’t know if the American sports car was tuned in any way, but in stock form, its 7.0-liter V8 engine pumped out 505 horsepower back when it left the factory floor.

So, how did it do? We’ll tell you that at the end of the run, one vehicle was clocked at 252.44 kph (156.86 mph), whereas the other did 231.27 kph (143.7 mph), from a rolling start.

Before jumping to the video embedded at the bottom of the page, get ready to see the said ‘Vette go against other fast machines. In the first filmed race, it took on a BMW M140i, said to have 500 horsepower available on tap. Next, it met the aforementioned V63, with its AMG power, and in the final race, it went up against a BMW M5 F90.

The German executive super sedan also hides some changes in the engine compartment, as its twin turbocharged V8 was tuned to deliver 100 HP more, to 700 HP. However, we all know that BMW’s M Division tends to hide the real power of their high-end vehicles, as the dyno tests used to reveal around 630 HP a couple of years back, which is actually more than the Competition variant.