Sports Car Selfies [Back stories]

Auto writers, like wine critics, must regularly try to put the ineffable into words. For years, our contributor Lawrence Ulrich has been doing just that-when he wasn't test-driving the world's hottest cars. Out of this lifestyle have come some alluring allusions, such as these: . "a mellow, baritone blat" (on the BMW X6 M in 2010) . "a silvery, shrieking blur" (on the McLaren MP4-12C in 2012) . "The Tesla hunts down internal-combustion prey with eerily silent remorselessness" (2013) Recently, on a test track in Nevada, he was able to meld his evocative prose with video and data, for the first time, after test-driving a car. It's a Corvette Z06 [above, with Ulrich at the wheel], one of our Top 10 Tech Cars for 2015.