Top Ten Cars of the Decade Countdown 8 Chevrolet Corvette

As an established American icon, the Corvette didn’t need much improvement to carry its success into the 2000s. But thankfully, improvement is exactly what we got. A whole lot of it. The sixth generation Corvette (known internally and to fans as the C6) first arrived on the scene in 2005.

Appearing outwardly similar to the previous generation, many experts were convinced that the then-new Corvette was nothing more than a glorified mid-model facelift. But the arrival of the C6 soon transformed that skepticism into outright enthusiasm. Sharing less than 20 percent of its parts with the previous model and with a newly developed 6.0-liter V8 producing 400 horsepower in the base model, the C6 changed the face of the sports car game forever.

And after the introduction of the 505-hp Z06 and 638-hp ZR1 models, the C6 could now give most super cars a run for their money. The C6 has proven that American muscle is still alive and well, and has guaranteed that the Corvette nameplate will survive well into the next decade.

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