- The Corvette ZR1X is the quickest production car Car and Driver has tested.
- It reached 60 mph in 1.8 seconds and ran the quarter-mile in 8.9 seconds.
- The result puts Chevy ahead of several hypercars costing millions more.
The Chevrolet Corvette has long been a giant-killer. Over the past couple of decades, it’s become a supercar killer. Now it’s a bona fide hypercar killer, and there’s fresh independent data to prove it. A stock ZR1X, the flagship model with 1,250 horsepower (932 kW), including 1,064 hp from its twin-turbo flat-plane-crank V-8 and the rest from a front-mounted electric motor, just ripped from 0-60 mph (97 km/h) in 1.8 seconds and crushed the quarter mile in 8.9 seconds at 155 mph (249 km/h).
Simply put, Bugatti, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Koenigsegg, Pagani, and the rest, EVs included, simply can’t keep up.
It’s important to note that these figures come from Car and Driver’s own testing rather than Chevrolet. The publication recently retested the same ZR1X it evaluated earlier this year after engineers reportedly suggested dusty conditions may have prevented the car from reaching its full potential.
The new results were 0.3 seconds quicker to 60 mph (97 km/h) and through the quarter mile than the first test. This second attempt took place in Michigan on fresh Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2R tires wrapped around carbon-fiber wheels and delivered results that matched Chevy’s own lofty claims.
Read: The Corvette ZR1X Beat A Bugatti Chiron, Then A Lucid Showed Up
Let’s clarify a little about the car in question beyond the tire compound. This was a ZR1X, Chevrolet’s AWD hybrid Corvette, and it featured the ZTK Performance package and a large rear wing. It was also running street-alignment settings rather than the more aggressive track alignment. Testers used the car’s most aggressive launch control setting dialed in at 3,500 RPM and could barely get the tires to spin up during the burnout phase to warm the tires.
They note that these runs, of which they did two in each direction to confirm the figures, are only possible with the perfect combination of circumstances. That means good track temperatures, good battery percentage for the electric motors, the right engine temperature, and, as already mentioned, an appropriately grippy surface. Putting all of that together enabled the ZR1X to become the fastest accelerating car that Car and Driver has ever tested.
It bested the 1,234-hp Lucid Air Sapphire and the 1,019-hp Porsche Taycan Turbo GT by 0.1 seconds each to 60 mph, while leaving the 1,578-hp Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 0.4 seconds behind at 2.2 seconds, all figures recorded with a one-foot rollout of 0.2 seconds.
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Then, covering 1,320 feet (402 m) in just 8.9 seconds, it beat both the Lucid and the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport (9.1 seconds) by 0.2 seconds overall. Car and Driver also clocked 100 mph (161 km/h) in 3.7 seconds, 150 mph (241 km/h) in 8.3 seconds, 190 mph (306 km/h) in 20.3 seconds, and a manufacturer-claimed top speed of 225 mph (362 km/h). That’s remarkable for a car Chevrolet says should cost customers around $250,000, especially when the machines that lose to it often run well into seven-figure territory.
