At a best friends family gathering I had an opportunity to get up close and personal with a brand new ZR1 Corvette. What was my first question? "Can I drive it?" While the owner surely thought I was merely kidding around, I assure you, I wasn't. But, I did appreciate the face that he opened the hood so we could get a look inside and he even started the engine and revved it a bunch to scare off the local neighborhood children.