Chevy's wildest ever car blows the Dodge Hellcat away!

Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

1 min read

As with the previous generation model, Chevrolet has saved the ZR1 badge for nastiest version of the Corvette it has ever built.

In fact, the 755hp 6.2-litre supercharged monster is the most powerful, fastest car ever built by any company under the General Motors umbrella!
 
Due to be launched in 2019, the ZR1 has a huge 6.2-litre V8 coded 'LT5' topped by a gigantic 2.6-litre supercharger, with four separate fluid-coolers packed into that rakish nose. You’ll notice the wild aero kit, particularly that mahoosive optional rear wing, while there is also magnetic ride control suspension similar to that found in local HSV models.

No firm price has been announced, but the left-hand drive model will likely cost US$120,000, will do 0-100km/h in under 3.0-seconds, run the quarter-mile in under 11 seconds, and top out well over 320km/h.

Iain Kelly is the fan of fast Corvettes behind The Creators Online.

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Iain Kelly

Contributing Journalist

A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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