Nothing’s more effective at showing your Corvette pride than a clean car. Extremely clean, freshly detailed Corvettes are dead-sexy. When a Corvette is surgically clean, there is nothing — not even a speck of dust — between your eyeballs and those seductive lines, and that’s hot.

This week’s Corvette of the Week comes from a new Corvette Forum member. He’s from Malabar, Florida, and he goes by the handle “flntv” around these parts. He just bought himself a 2015 Corvette Z06 last weekend.

Considering how much of a performance bargain a new Corvette is, start putting the image of a used ‘Vette in your mind, and think about the nuclear shockwave of value that represents. Used Corvettes like C5s and C6s are performance bargains on top of performance bargains. Perhaps the pinnacle of used Corvette performance bargains is the C5 Corvette Z06. This Hooniverse video shows us why.

The American Dream heavily contributes to the viability of American culture as an export. In the case of this Corvette and Xing, it’s passionate owner, the American Dream was exported to China where it eventually grew into Corvette ownership on American soil.

According to Tadge Juechter in Corvette Forum’s “Ask Tadge” section, the C7 Z06’s Nürburgring lap time will be announced soon. What ET do you think the Z06 will achieve?

Plumes of tire smoke reaching for the skies like Old Faithful — deafening engines getting the Harlem Globe Trotter dribble off the rev limiter — Formula DRIFT’s 90-mph tail-out action is more than mesmerizing … it’s life-changing … and then there are the show cars. Finger-licking good.

Here’s what’s changing on the C7 Corvette Stingray for the 2016 model year.