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Enough is never enough. Chevrolet just took out the Corvette ZR1which, at 1,064 horsepower, is the fastest, fastest and most scandalous production car to wear a bow tie on the hood.
He can keep the ties, but his performance crown has already found a new house. Meet the new ZR1X, an even higher performance Corvette This will bring the American sports car to new heights. It has 1,250 hp, all -wheel drive and accelerates 60 mph in less than two seconds.
Oh, and yes, it’s a hybrid. I had an early overview of the thing at a private start recently, and here is everything you need to know about the new American hypercar.
E-radial
The ZR1X joins an increasingly busy Corvette model that guarantees that buyers with budgets ranging from generous to extreme have something to covet. The stingray is still the basic model, with a starting price of just over $ 70,000 and 490 hp.
From a financial point of view, the next radiography is the corvette, the corvette hybrid model introduced in 2023. It adds an electric motor of 160 hp to the procedure, resulting in a total output of 655 hp. The x -ray is positioned as something of a big tourer: really fast but with a somewhat relaxed attitude. It also starts at just over $ 100,000.
From there, you can go to the more efficient Z06 model and more focused on the track, which, without surprise, is also at a higher price. It has a much more racy V8 engine of 5.5 liters which is 670 hp and a starting price more spending a little more than $ 110,000.
These were recently joined by the new ZR1, which adds turbochargers as well as numerous engine updates to offer this huge 1064 hp and a wild point speed of 233 MPH. Its requested price is also wild, from around $ 175,000. This already makes it the most expensive corvette of all time, but things are about to become more extreme.
The ZR1X is a kind of fusion of the ZR1 and the hybrid electronic radius. It borrows the electrical arrangement of the x -ray and rises inside a ZR1, including the turbocharged V8 of this car and the wild aerodynamic appendages. Lay tasty improvements to both the electrical drive system and other aspects of the car, and you have the new ZR1X of 1,250 hp.
The combination of the ZR1 and the e-ray allows you to create the ZR1X, but there is much more than that. The ZR1X uses a battery with a revised internal construction, resulting in a capacity increase of 26%. But keep in mind that it is not a rechargeable hybrid. You always talk about something with a battery capacity of less than three kWh. You do not lead to your ZR1X emissions without emissions.
The hybrid system is there for more performance, and for this purpose, the car has some new driving modes to help optimize energy delivery from this new pack. The first is the endurance mode, where the ZR1X will provide total power to the front engine but will not tax the battery so much that you must worry about missing in mid-term.
Then there is a qualification mode. Select this, and the ZR1X will empty all the energy it can through the front engine to give you the maximum rhythm of a single key. There is also a “push to pass” button, offering a brief maximum acceleration period for the times when you absolutely need to exceed this lollygagger which costs you precious for a few seconds on your journey.
All this additional speed required certain upgrades to the stop service. The ZR1X carries a set of massive carbon brakes from Alcon, the company which manufactures these parts for some of the Chevrolet racing machines. The 16.5 inch discs at the front is equivalent to 1.9 g of braking force. The installation of a racing harness could be a good idea not to get out of the chair the first time you hit this left pedal.
Despite the additional power to the front axle of this electric motor, the ZR1X rolls on the same tire size as the ZR1 at the rear less powerful. “We were tempted to expand,” said the chief engineer of the Corvette, Josh Holder. “It is a delicate balance between the non -suspended mass and the power dynamics in power, and we think that we have made the right choice.”
Holder said he had come to work with Michelin on the development of tires and some adjustments to the car management software. “This is one of the things that we had to settle very carefully, given the exit power now in ZR1X, just to make sure that we do not turn the axle before when you are at a high side charge,” he said.
Familiar dynamic
Keith Badgley, development engineer on the ZR1X, said that, despite the additional power and everything else, the ZR1X will always have the same accessible performance feeling that defines the Corvette line: “We have designed this to be as composed as the Stringray range with twice and a half.
“I would say that it does not lead differently, in terms of being able to scribble at the corner of the street, able to balance the car with the power delivery of the axle before,” said Holder. “You can do things on the electronic shelves and in the ZR1X which, if you did in the rear driving car, would not work so well for you … But this balance and this dynamic, they behave in the same way as the ZR1X has more capacity.”
But what he probably won’t offer is the same level of involvement that the corvette has always been known. Chevrolet does not say how the ZR1X will cost when it is sold later this year. But it will surely be cheap.
Again, the ZR1 starts at around $ 175,000. The electronic radius has a price of around $ 30,000 compared to the Stingray base. If we apply the same bonus here, we are in the $ 200,000 stadium. Add the other upgrades, such as the Alcon Fancy and Better Battery Pack brakes, and it is easy to assume that this thing will be assessed within the reach of certain European exotic.
Will it be worth it? We will have to wait and see until we entered behind the steering wheel, but Chevrolet has already tested many things around the NurgurgringCovering more than 600 miles to the largest vehicle performance playground on the planet. Hopefully this is in the streets and circuits closer to your home.
