*BREAKING NEWS* 2025 CORVETTE ZR1 DESTROYS LAMBORGHINI REVUELTO! (CHEAP VS EXPENSIVE SUPER CARS)

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Dec 21, 2024
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Welcome back to the channel.
What a great day.
Today, this is it.
We finally found out how fast this new Corvette ZR1 is, and it's a lot faster than any of
us could have thought.
We all were looking back, I guess what, years ago, towards this new Corvette going, what
could the ZR1 be like if the Stingray is already so capable?
I was stunned when I got my first C8 Corvette Stingray.
Next thing, the Z06 came out, and that blew us away even further with 670 horsepower,
210 horsepower more, basically, than a standard C8 Corvette while using a naturally aspirated
V8.
I think all of us were on the same table when it comes to thinking about how a hypercar
Corvette will be coming over the horizon.
Now it looks like this new Corvette ZR1 essentially is a hypercar already, and it doesn't even
cost a million dollars, or even close to a million dollars.
Yes, we don't know exactly how much money this new Corvette costs, but we do know it's
a ZR1, and ZR1s have never in the past been priced near what the Lamborghinis would cost
brand new.
Hopefully, with this new ZR1, it doesn't actually approach Lamborghini price tags, but it might.
We need to go over how fast this new Corvette ZR1 is.
They have finally revealed zero to 60 metrics for both the ZTK car and the standard ZR1.
They've also revealed how fast these vehicles are down the quarter of a mile.
Today, we're going to be going through all those specs and truly finding out how it stacks
up against the competition that are pretty much similar to hypercars.
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Anyways, back to the point of this video.
This new Corvette is going to be faster than Lamborghini Revuelto down the quarter mile.
Yep, yep, yep, that's true.
The quarter mile time for the ZTK equipped ZR1 is 9.6 seconds.
That is insane.
That's a lot faster than the Z06s and the E-Ray.
Not only that, with the less aero car, the car that's more slippery, I'm guessing you're
probably assuming it's faster down the quarter mile.
However, it's not.
I believe it's not because the tires that are on the standard non-ZTK base ZR1 aren't
as sticky.
Therefore, if we're going based off what I just said, now it's obvious why the ZR1 that's
not the ZTK car with the standard Michelin PS4 tires, I believe it has, is a 9.7 second
car down the quarter mile.
That means the track-based one with all the extra downpours can still pull a 9.6 second
quarter mile.
That is insane.
Absolutely insane.
If we break down the 0-60s, the standard ZR1 non-ZTK car with the standard Michelin tires
goes 0-60 in 2.5 seconds, while the other one, the track-focused model with all the
downpours goes 0-60 in 2.3 seconds.
If we go off those data points, those numbers, here's what we can find out.
Well, the track-focused one goes 0-60 in 0.2 seconds faster.
However, down the quarter mile, the base car is only 0.1 seconds slower than the track-focused
model.
If they accelerated evenly, the exact same, then that 0.2 second of a margin would have
stayed all the way down the quarter mile.
Instead, the car with less downpours and, let's say, harder tires was able to gain 0.1
seconds.
I think that's why it's safe to assume down the half mile, if that's what you're into
with a rolling start, or even if you put on sticky tires on a standard ZR1, it will be
the faster of the two accelerating because it has less drag, and drag means all the aerodynamics
that you're seeing on the CTK car with the big wing and big dive planes up front, that
helps you get more grip to the corners because the air is making you get sucked down.
However, when you want to go as fast as possible, you want to be as clean as possible through
the air, and that's why the base car is seemingly faster.
And to further explain my reasonings as to why this is real, we gotta go over the rest
of what Chevrolet has just announced.
They have officially stated that the standard Aero ZR1 goes down the quarter mile two miles
per hour faster than the ZTK car.
Two miles an hour faster.
What does that tell you?
Again, it is more slippery, it's able to cut through the air even faster because the air
is not really holding it back.
Is two miles an hour, is that a deal breaker for you?
Let me know.
Let me know your thoughts.
If you've got a ZR1 allocation, would you go all out and get the model that has all
the aero for the fastest cornering possible?
Or would you rather buy the base Aero car and not have the big wing out back with the
dive planes allowing you to be a few miles per hour faster down the quarter mile?
We need to go over the fuel type.
They use 93 octane in all these tests.
I don't know if you put 100 octane in these vehicles if they will run better.
I recall back to the C7 generation days, that vehicle would run even better on higher octane
fuel.
I know McLaren's run significantly better on higher octane fuel.
Anyways, that's going to wrap up all the pieces of news that were dropped by Chevrolet regarding
the acceleration time for this vehicle.
If we compare the stats of this ZR1 to other Corvettes that we've had in the past, it is
officially the fastest down the 0-60 mark because the E-Ray goes 0-60 in 2.5 seconds,
the Z06 with the Z07 package goes 0-60 in 2.6 seconds, and finally the standard C8 Corvette
Stingray goes 0-60 in 2.9 seconds.
Can you imagine these numbers now in your head?
233 miles per hour for top speed, less than a million dollars, over 1000 horsepower, a
dual-clutch transmission, a mid-engine platform, tons of carbon fiber, 1200 pounds of downforce.
I mean, wow!
Where does it go from here?
What's the C9 generation Corvette going to be like?
Will it be electric?
I don't know, but what I'm getting at here is this is absolutely insane.
While we have Ford going to the track and having the fastest car in the Nürburgring
from an American manufacturer, we have the fastest car ever built by an American manufacturer
with Corvette to go by two completely different paths right now, aren't they?
If you're wondering how launching the ZR1 goes, it's similar to the Stingray.
There's going to be a rapid launch feature, also just launch control, which uses a special
transmission clutch application, right?
It also allows for certain RPM to be built up at.
With real-time adapting, when you let off on the brake, it'll help put down the power
of the traction and stability control systems, giving you very, very fast 0-60s.
You can adjust your slip target rate depending on how slippery your surface is or how grippy
it is.
If you have a very grippy surface that you know your tires are going to ignite and stick,
you can increase your slip target rate, which will allow for more of the tires spinning
right away, but if the ground is so sticky and your tires are sticky enough, you'll just
launch and go.
That means this vehicle is adaptable depending on the conditions in which you are running
it down the quarter mile.
To the title of this video, yes, it looks like this is faster than the Lamborghini Revuelto.
I'll even do a secondary search right here at the podcast studio desk because if I type
down Revuelto quarter mile time right here, it says, even with AI pulling up, it says
the Lamborghini Revuelto, from the tests that we have seen in the past, it has completed
the quarter mile in 9.87 seconds.
Auto car road test, they got it to go 9.9 seconds down the quarter mile.
According to CarDriver, it says it'll go down the quarter mile in 9.7 seconds.
From the independent tests we have seen, it looks like people haven't really gotten much
faster.
We've got CarDriver again, a quarter mile in the upper nines.
So, can this Corvette ZR1 be faster than a V12 hybrid carbon monocoque Lamborghini that
cost $600,000?
Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section down below.
I can't wait to hear and respond to what you guys have to say about this because I'm shocked.
I'm speechless right now.
Time will tell how fast it is on the road course.
We know how fast it's accelerating.
It's absolutely crazy accelerating.
How fast will it be in the corners and will it have the capability and potential to handle
that kind of horsepower for the bends?
Or will the horsepower become too overwhelming, making the car not very approachable towards
the limit on the racetrack?
I'm very curious to find out and we definitely will find out.
I love testing out the performance capabilities of these new Corvettes.
I know the team is very enthusiastic about what they're doing.
They are true enthusiasts from what I could gather from them, especially with our interviews
we've done here on the channel.
My favorite Corvette so far has been the Z06.
The E-Ray was a very cool car.
My favorite was the Z06 and I think you guys saw that here on the channel.
I do think this is going to mark a whole new era for Corvette and I also think the best
is yet to come.
There's always something better in the future because with the future comes the next best
thing.
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