You could make a case that the brakes are the most important part of your car whether you’re on the street or the track. And brakes are often the major limiting factor in how many hot laps you can do consecutively. When the brakes get too hot, the pedal gets soft, and the brakes might not bite enough when you need them to. That can be a challenge when hauling down a car from triple-digit speeds; just ask any of our Lightning Lap drivers (especially the one who ended up in the Turn 1 tire wall due to brake failure on a Nissan 370Z NISMO). Braking isn’t just about brakes, either. The car’s weight and especially its tires also play a huge part in the process. With every vehicle that Car and Driver tests, we perform a 70-mph-to-zero braking test to determine, as the name suggests, how many feet it takes for a car to come to a complete stop from 70 miles per hour, using a GPS-based VBOX data logger from Racelogic. For context, full-size pickups often need nearly 200 feet, whereas sports cars are down in the 150-foot range, with the best even lower. Without further ado, we present a list of the 16 shortest-stopping cars we have tested:
2019 McLaren Senna (tie) — 136 ft
The McLaren Senna is not a looker by any stretch. Form definitely follows function with this most focused track rat built in Woking, England. It does, however, carve up a track like you would a turkey on Thanksgiving, and it brakes from 70 mph to zero in 136 feet, thanks in part to a set of carbon-ceramic brakes that are similar to carbon-carbon brake units found on race cars.
2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport (tie) — 136 ft
The Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport is truly a bargain sports car with some crazy performance on tap. It shoots to 60 mph from a standstill in less than four seconds and stops equally well, needing only 136 feet to go from 70 mph to zero. The crazy thing is that this number is achieved on Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires and iron brakes. There’s a more aggressive brake, tire, and aero setup available for the Grand Sport, which makes an appearance later in this list.
Ferrari’s foray into the hybrid-hypercar wars was the 2015 Ferrari LaFerrari. Combing its power from an electric motor and a V-12 engine, this prancing horse kicked out 950 horsepower and 664 pound-feet of torque. A set of carbon-ceramic brakes is charged with keeping all those horses in check and stops this 3489-pound monster in 136 feet from 70 mph to zero.
2018 Lamborghini Huracán Performante (tie) — 135 ft
How do you stop a raging, track-eating, fire-breathing bull? With carbon-ceramic brakes and a dash of active aero, of course. The 2018 Lamborghini Huracán Performante is the spicy version of the already potent Huracán and brings more power and active aero to the equation. The Performante stops in 135 feet from 70 mph to zero, making hard accelerating and braking into g-loaded affairs.
Of all the Vipers we’ve tested, done burnouts in, and thanked Bob Lutz for, the wildest we’ve ever driven was the 2017 Dodge Viper ACR. ACR-ified Vipers are extreme, with a rear wing the size of a table and super-sticky tires that were created to excel in autocross competitions. The brakes pull hard on this snake, generating 70 mph to zero in 134 feet, which is impressive considering that the car weighs in at 3400 pounds.
2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Convertible (Z07) (tie) — 134 ft
The Chevrolet Corvette Z06 is a spectacularly thrilling car to drive, even when it’s equipped with a droptop and an automatic transmission. Part of what makes it so fun is the amount of g-force you’ll feel as the car goes from 70 mph to zero in 134 feet. This car is the shortest-braking convertible we’ve ever tested, and its coupe sibling puts up an even more impressive number.
The Ferrari SF90 is the spiritual successor to the LaFerrari, and with a midship 769-hp twin-turbo V-8 mated to a 201-hp electric motor and two 133-hp motors on the front axle, the SF90 produces a total of 986 horsepower. All that adds up to a blistering 2.0-second run to 60, making the SF90 the quickest car to 60 mph that C/D has ever tested. It can stop with the best of them too. Despite being 3840 pounds, it only takes 134 feet to fully arrest its momentum from 70 mph.
The Porsche 911 Turbo S is great at everything it does. It’s a capable track car, a great grand tourer, a stoplight racer, and a skidpad champion, and it has been since 911 Turbos were introduced in 1975. It launches hard from zero to 60 mph in 2.7 seconds and stops harder, with a 70-mph-to-zero stopping distance of 133 feet.
If you need an example of how important tires are for braking, look no further than the Mercedes-AMG GT R, Affalterbach’s latest two-door track animal. AMG offers the car with two tire options, and both are Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2. One, however, was developed for the Corvette Z06 and is wider. With the optional Vette-spec rubber, the GT R stops in 133 feet from 70 mph to zero, beating the standard rubber by four feet.
The Porsche 911 GT3 has long been the quintessential sports car, and the 992 generation does nothing to change that. With a 4.0-liter flat-six pumping out 502 horsepower paired with the seven-speed dual-clutch automatic, our test vehicle hit 60 mph in 2.7 seconds. With the help of optional cross-drilled carbon-ceramic brakes and Michelin Sport Cup 2R tires, the 2022 GT3 came to a stop from 70 mph in an impressive 133 feet.
The Porsche 911 GT2 RS isn’t just a 911 with more power, aero, better brakes, and gobs of carbon fiber. Well, it is at first glance, but when you’re sitting in the car, blasting along at double the speed limit, you realize this 911 is truly special, a unique street-legal race car that begs to be driven to the limit. And at the limit, it delivers some amazing performance, like a 129-foot stop from 70 mph to zero.
2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport (Z07) (tie) — 129 ft
It’s crazy that we live in a world where a $67,000 Chevrolet Corvette outbrakes the likes of McLaren, Ferrari, and Lamborghini—and we’re not complaining. When equipped with the Z07 track package, which adds Michelin Sport Cup 2 tires, carbon-ceramic brakes, and more aggressive aero, the Grand Sport will come to a halt from 70 mph in 129 feet.
It’s no secret that we love the Porsche 911 GT3 RS‘s screaming 4.0-liter flat-six engine and the noises it emits, but we also love the performance that has been baked into that 911’s chassis. One example is the GT3 RS’s 70-mph-to-zero stopping distance of 128 feet, which is the best number (so far) that we’ve coaxed out of any Porsche. Just make sure your seatbelt is holding you into the carbon-fiber bucket seats before slamming on the brakes, or you’ll get thrown forward in the Stuttgart stallion like a cowboy on a bucking bronco.
One common denominator with all of these cars that have insanely short stopping distances is the combo of Michelin Sport Cup 2 tires and carbon-ceramic brakes, a formula that the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 uses when equipped with the Z07 package. This American sports car with 650 supercharged ponies that seems to exist solely to dominate racetracks can stop in 128 feet from 70 mph.
The current pinnacle of automotive braking is the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, which comes to an eye-popping halt from 70 mph in 127 feet, the best that we’ve ever tested, even though it weighs nearly 100 pounds more than its sibling, the Z06. This most powerful Corvette ever sports 755 horsepower, extremely aggressive aero, sticky Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, and carbon-ceramic brakes, helping it set our third-fastest Lightning Lap time, behind only the Porsche 911 GT2 RS and the McLaren Senna.
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