It starts at the base of your neck. A small shiver at first, a tingle, and it travels up and down and spreads across your shoulders like a fire.

And then your pulse quickens.
Your hands begin to get sweaty and your mouth dries out, yet still you push your fist toward third gear, step on the egg under your foot and there you are: between speed and sound, traveling at a force of 505 horsepower with a ribbon of torque that runs through your soul and shakes your senses like a rag doll.

You are alive, and you are behind the wheel of a 2006 Chevrolet Z06. You hit a corner, take it hard, harder than you ought to, yet the beast keeps its composure under your fingertips, keeps its bearing as it leans into the curve and breaks out into a low-slung predatory chase down the straight-away, vicious hunter on the prowl for prey. You close in, slide over, and whomp, you’re gone, the pass little more than a grunt.

In the jumbled automotive world where there’s always another great car, a better vehicle, or a hotter deal, in a world where the din from spinmasters grows to the point of insane chaos, the 2006 Chevrolet Z06 splits it, silences the clamor and cleaves that world in two: There are cars you drive. And then there are cars that drive you. Whether you should buy and drive the amazing 2006 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 depends on which side of that divide you wish to live.