2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 top speed 233 mph
"Oh my god, this is so fast!" When four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon talks about your latest machine, you know you're doing something right as a performance car manufacturer. Those were the words that came out of Gordon's mouth as he watched the 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 speed past him as it accelerated to 233 mph. Photo Credit: Chevrolet As automakers tend to do, Chevrolet under-promised when it released preliminary numbers for the C8 version of the ZR1 in July. Its DOHC 5.5-liter V8 (aka LT7) features a flat-plane crankshaft and twin turbochargers that help it pump out 1,064 horsepower and 828 pound-feet of torque. "The Corvette ZR1 has a top speed of over 215 mph on the track and runs the quarter mile in what GM estimates is less than 10 seconds." Boy, does it over-deliver. Chevrolet recently took the ZR1 to the high-speed oval track at ATP Car Testing in Papenburg, Germany, and achieved a two-way…
2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Rolls Into Jay Leno’s Garage
What does Jay Leno have You could call his automotive tastes eclectic. His massive garage is home to McLaren F1s, vintage Bugattis and Bentleys, cars powered by steam and aircraft engines, and a few Deusenbergs. Still, he makes time and space to appreciate American cars. He recently invited GM President Mark Reuss to share details on a very special C2 Convertible and the new 2025 Corvette ZR1. Just as the C8 continues the Corvette lineage that came before it, so too does Reuss carry on his family’s legacy at GM. His late father, Lloyd, joined the automaker in 1957, eventually rising to become the company’s president in 1990. During that time, he served as chief engineer for Buick and Chevrolet and became general manager of Buick in 1980. One of the projects he worked on was the Powerglide two-speed automatic transmission, which was found in the 1967 Corvette 427 convertible his son inherited from him and showed to Leno. Like…
How have cars changed? A lot, but not a lot
About eight yearsas a freelance writer, I have the privilege of driving and reviewing brand-new cars on an almost weekly basis. I started with a 2014 Lexus LX570 and progressed to a wide variety of vehicles and experiences—from line-lock burnouts in a 2015 Ford Mustang GT to towing a boat to the lake in a Toyota Sequoia Limited Edition to a 2,600-mile out-of-state trip in a Ram 1500 Rebel EcoDiesel to zipping down the highway in an Audi R8 V10 plus. In late 2022, my schedule didn’t allow for a review, and I handed the press car keys over to one of my (now former) colleagues. I’m happy to announce that I’ll soon be reviewing cars for ClassicCars.com magazine again, both in written and video form. These are some of the changes I’ve seen over the past two years, and some things remain the same. The more changes... SUV countries There was a time when sports car companies didn't make…
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