Tagged: 'Corvette ZR1'

In last nights episode of Top Gear the three Brits went over to the US of A to see if the modern day muscle car is any good. For this test they take out a Dodge Challenger, Corvette ZR1 and Cadillac CTS-V and attend the drag races on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. Jeremy [...]

Two weeks after the Corvette ZR1 with GM development engineer Jim Mero behind the wheel lapped the Nurburgring Nordschleife in 7:26,4, General Motors released the video of the record-lap. A lot of people doubted the real laptime of the Corvette ZR1 and although a video is still manipulative evidence, we think the Corvette ZR1’s laptime [...]

The complete stock version of the Corvette ZR1 lapped the Nurburgring Nordschleife in 7:26,4 last week. Showing once again the importance of a good laptime at the Ring, GM can be proud with their Corvette ZR1’s performance at the Ring. Japanese rivals as the Nissan GT-R that did a 7:29 ring lap last month, but [...]

A while ago we found out that the Corvette ZR1 will run on a 647 bhp strong V8 with 819 Nm of torque, that the topspeed is nothing less than 206 mph (330 kmh). New is the 0 - 62 mph (100 kmh) sprint time: 3.4 seconds! From standstill to 100 mph (161 [...]