This is the 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1

by Chris Teague

Published: July 26th, 2024

The Chevrolet Corvette has grown into essentially its own brand over the years, as the automaker pushes the performance envelope with Z06 and ZR1 variants. The eighth-generation car recently got its more extreme version in the 2025 Corvette ZR1, a mid-engine monster with a twin-turbocharged V8 and more.

Chevy said the LT7 engine makes 1,064 horsepower and a massive 828 pound-feet of torque, all without hybrid power. The car is targeting a more than 215 mph top speed and a sub-ten-second quarter mile time. At speed, the ZR1 generates more than 1,200 pounds of downforce, and it has a split rear window as a throwback to the model’s earliest variants.

The automaker made significant changes to the V8 engine to generate its staggering power numbers. It got head castings with a larger combustion chamber and revised ports, updated valvetrain timing, a new intake system tuned for the turbochargers, and an intelligent anti-lag system specifically designed for the engine.

The ZR1 comes in two variants. The standard car gets Magnetic Ride dampers and Michelin Pilot Sport 4S tires on 20-inch front wheels and 21-inch rears. The optional ZTK performance package adds a higher-downforce aero package with a new rear wing, front dive planes, and other carbon fiber body components.

Chevy didn’t talk about pricing for the car, but expect a starting number of around $150,000 before options and what will almost certainly be absurd dealer markups. The ZR1 will enter production next year ahead of its release, and more information will become available as we approach that timeframe.

[Images: Chevrolet]

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Chris Teague

Chris grew up in, under, and around cars, but took the long way around to becoming an automotive writer. After a career in technology consulting and a trip through business school, Chris began writing about the automotive industry as a way to reconnect with his passion and get behind the wheel of a new car every week. He focuses on taking complex industry stories and making them digestible by any reader. Just don’t expect him to stay away from high-mileage Porsches.

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Jeff on Jul 27, 2024
I am glad that GM still makes a car like the Corvette. With most manufacturers going to suvs, cuvs, and pickup trucks it is at least nice to have a manufacturer that still makes a car especially a sports car but maybe I should call this Corvette a super car. I will never own one but I am glad there are still Corvettes. I grew up with shows like Route 66 that featured Corvettes and remember my father's friend and law partner having a 59 Corvette white with red, 4 on the floor, 283 with dual 4 barrel carbs (270 hp). By today's standards that 59 Corvette was slow but as a kid I remember being thrown to the back of the seat when my father's friend took me for a ride. I believe it was that car that got the 9 year old me interested in cars.

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- ToolGuy on Jul 28, 2024
  What did you have for lunch last Tuesday?
  
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- Jeff on Jul 28, 2024
  What did you have for lunch?
  
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Kwik_Shift_Pro4X on Jul 28, 2024
Hard to beat the C6 for looks in modern Corvettes.

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