2025 Corvette Z06 | 670 HP 
For about twice the cost of a base Corvette Stingray you can have what the MotorTrend staff calls the best American sports car ever made. Yes, it’s lightweight, and yes, it sticks like glue, but the thing you care about most as a hot-rodder is its 670-hp, flat-plane-crank, 8,600-rpm-redline, 5.5-liter LT6 V-8. It is a modern marvel and the only car you can get one in is the 2025 Corvette Z06. Just understand that a highest-horsepower car like the Z06 is going to cost well over the car’s official starting MSRP of $112,100. (The average Mecum hammer price of low-mileage C8 Z06s is somewhere north of $150,000 and there appears to be plenty of inventory in the pipeline.) Some of the Z06’s mind-bending stats include lateral acceleration of 1.10 g, 60–0 mph in 99 feet, 0–60 acceleration of 2.6 seconds, and a quarter-mile elapsed time of 10.6 seconds at a whopping 131 mph.  

Base price: $112,100 
Power output: 670 hp