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Corvette ZR1- 755 HP Damn
I think there was already a post on this but I couldn't find it so I'll put this one up.....now for my Canadian friends I don't think Kathleen Wynne, Zoolander or Climate Barbie will approve of a car that can consume so much fuel that it requires two fuel delivery systems.......take that EV's!
Sometimes, General Motors gets a car so very right. The 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 has a spec sheet so good, we want to frame it.
It’s quite simply the fastest, and most powerful road car Chevrolet has ever built. The numbers are 755 horsepower and 710 lb.-ft. of torque; Chevrolet engineers achieved those numbers fitting the ZR1’s LT5 6.2L V8 engine with a supercharger that’s 52 per cent larger than the one fitted to the current Z06.
In fact, it rams so much air down the V8’s throat that it needs two fuel systems to feed it; the motor uses direct injection and supplemental port injection. It also wears a throttle body that’s a full*nine centimetres across its diameter.*
Putting 755 horsepower to the ground requires proper rubber. A lot of it. And to that order, the ZR1 is fitted with steamroller-spec 335-section rear tires. The brakes are equally serious carbon ceramic units with six-piston calipers at the front. GM’s Magnetic Ride Control is fitted as standard. It’s also available with a seven-speed manual, or if you want to be less cool, an eight-speed automatic.*
The aggressive bodywork features an obnoxious – but no doubt necessary – rear wing that GM claims is bolted directly to the chassis and not just the bodywork. But the real work has been done on the hood; the larger supercharger made the engine much taller than the cooking-grade unit and that caused an issue with hood height. GM’s solution was to simply make the supercharger cover look like part of the hood. Part of what looks like the hood is literally bolted to the supercharger, meaning it rumbles and shakes with the drivetrain. It’s a shaker hood!*
The ZR1 will go on sale next spring as a 2019 model. It’s expected to cost somewhere in the low $100,000 range.
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