After coursing through eight cylinders and 6.2 liters of supercharged rage, the gases tumbling from the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06's four exhaust pipes don't hum, they bark. Dip into the throttle, and it only gets angrier. At full song, the V8 emits a blatty, wake-the-comatose roar, a mechanical interpretation of Phil Spector's Wall of Sound.

The internal combustion sequence instigated by a simple press of a button forms sound waves that should make every Tesla and Prius driver within earshot reconsider their high-minded aspirations. Despite all the rational reasons to ditch fuel and embrace electrons, this Z06 makes a compelling case for its existence—and we haven't even clicked into first gear yet.