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Chevrolet Corvette vs Mercedes-Benz S-Class

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Chevrolet Corvette
Chevrolet Corvette

$175,000 - $336,000

2025 price

Mercedes-Benz S-Class
Mercedes-Benz S-Class

2021 price

Summary

2025 Chevrolet Corvette
2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class
Safety Rating

Engine Type
V8, 5.5L

Twin Turbo V6, 3.0L
Fuel Type
Premium Unleaded Petrol

Premium Unleaded Petrol
Fuel Efficiency
0.0L/100km (combined)

8.4L/100km (combined)
Seating
2

5
Dislikes
  • So low and so wide makes city driving stressful
  • Warranty is short
  • Constantly tripping over the front splitter

  • Price of entry prohibitive for most
  • 3D instrumentation can make you woozy
  • A tad conservative in design
2025 Chevrolet Corvette Summary

Chevrolet’s Corvette Z06 supercar is an all-American answer to European rivals Lamborghini and Ferrari, but it’s not just this that makes it so appealing.

Spending a week with the most potent Corvette you can get in Australia has left me with a list of notes on this beast I want to hand over to you. Maybe it will help make your mind up about it or change your mind.

What makes the Z06 the flagship of the Australian Corvette range isn’t little luxuries, but seriously upgraded mechanical hardware, much of it track focussed.

Our test car was also fitted with the Z07 Performance package which adds a carbon-fibre aero kit to pin the Corvette down at high speed while also drawing everybody’s attention to it.

Oh, and then there’s the sound of the largest flatplane crank V8 ever to go into a production car… and look out for your ankles - let me explain…

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2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class Summary

It's only in the running for the title of world's best luxury car. No biggie here, then.

Like Rolex and Concorde, S-Class has become a byword for ultimate, and deserved or not, the Mercedes-Benz defines its segment despite the best efforts of the BMW 7 Series, Audi A8, Lexus LS and (sadly now-defunct) Jaguar XJ, as well as pointing the way forward with new technologies that eventually trickle down to more proletarian models.

Replacing the half-million selling W222 unveiled in 2013, the W223 is the latest in a long line since the first W187 Ponton debuted in 1951, and includes the famous ‘Finnies' and Stroke-8 models that followed immediately afterwards, but it is the 1972 W116 that really set the template.

Now, seven generations in, the 2021 S-Class is all-new again, with progressive safety and interior features that should help keep it Australia's bestselling full-sized upper-luxury sedan.

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