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2025 Corvette ZR1, 1064hp, twin turbo

With manual cars you have to drive them not just go along for the ride. Nobody remembers the dude setting the record at Nürembergring in a Zl1LE with an H pattern 6 speed a few years ago? Dude straight manhandled that car. :smokin:
 
DWT said:
With manual cars you have to drive them not just go along for the ride. Nobody remembers the dude setting the record at Nürembergring in a Zl1LE with an H pattern 6 speed a few years ago? Dude straight manhandled that car. :smokin:
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Standard ZL1 guy ran the 10 speed and never touched the paddles.

But yeah, That Dude drove the fuck outa the 1LE.

Even the 1LE comes with the 10 speed auto now.

But I drive mine daily and the 10 speed is incredible. Plus I am half broken and things don't work as well as they used to.....
 
Outahand said:
Driving my ZL1 with only 650HP shit happens pretty fast. No way I could paddle shift it better than the computer does, much less row through the gears also.
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I don't think anyone is really arguing that the performance would be better with an actual manual. Just more fun. the driver is ultimately going to be the limiting factor at that point.
 
Ummduh said:
The interview I saw with the head engineer said they absolutely limit power in low gears, both for traction and component life
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Yep. This has been happening for years, especially on sportbikes. Hell, my old ‘05 and new ‘24 diesel trucks is much faster at 3/4 throttle, than full throttle. :homer:
 
crispins said:
I was about to get my second cup.

I guess I am weird, I often respond in order of reading the posts.

I am kinda into the C8's so I was blessing the board with my wide breadth of knowledge on them :homer:

I currently drive the slow 670 HP one. :flipoff2:

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Congratulations on your mid life crisis. Did they put a complementary box of viagra in the glove box for you?:flipoff2:
 
Norm said:
Some rich old guys are going to buy those to park in their garage with tile floors ......... :laughing:
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I hope so then I can look at them in the public. I'm not sure about ever owning one more then likely out of my range, a Lotus maybe.
 
Norm said:
Some rich old guys are going to buy those to park in their garage with tile floors ......... :laughing:
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Soon to be available in 20 years as classics still like new with the protecto wrap on the interior. I literally bought a car from a guy like that once. He made the dealer put the corvette he had on dollies to roll around their lot so the tires wouldn't move add any miles once off the truck. It had 1.7 miles.
 
Aisin said:
Maybe set your purse down so you can keep one hand on the steering wheel :flipoff2:
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I'm telling you man, when you snatch second or third you want to put both hands back on that wheel! Shit will make you pee your pullups
 
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SanDiegoCJ said:
Most of the new "exotics" with high hp/tq rating have the computer limit the power in the lower gears so you don't just roast the tires.
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Hell thats any "sports car" since early 2010's. Even my Ram 3500 diesel does it. "Torque Management" is what its usually called. My S4 has it as well and you can feel it when you try and hammer it with traction control on. Luckily in the Audi, I can turn it all the way off for shenanigans.
 
Alpine4x4 said:
Hell thats any "sports car" since early 2010's. Even my Ram 3500 diesel does it. "Torque Management" is what its usually called. My S4 has it as well and you can feel it when you try and hammer it with traction control on. Luckily in the Audi, I can turn it all the way off for shenanigans.
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This. IIRC the Viper was the last without any of that stuff.
 
Alpine4x4 said:
Luckily in the Audi, I can turn it all the way off for shenanigans.
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Not luckily for me. My Kia with 420hp V8 will not allow tire spin when I tried to do a sick burnout on my way to shop for new rear tires despite with Traction and stability control “off”.

By the way, AWD FTW for on high HP street-driven cars. I can’t imagine not having AWD to properly put down all of 1,000 horsepowers to ground.
 
I'd still like to get a ZO6. Would be interesting to know what all the turbo bits from the ZL1 would cost. Looks like there will be a 50k-100k difference in price between the two.
 
Norm said:
Some rich old guys are going to buy those to park in their garage with tile floors ......... :laughing:
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Put a cage in a brand new Z06 about a decade ago (not an easy task given the hydro formed aluminum chassis)

He had 2 of that year. He had at least one of every single Corvette since mid 60’s and from 79 on had a brand new (less than 5 miles) Vette from every single year. He had a warehouse full.

He did open road racing so in the early 2000’s he would buy two new Vettes every year, one got a cage and one went to the warehouse. The caged car got sold at the end of every season. Always low miles.

Nice bloke. He said there were several other Vette collectors who had much larger collections
 
TrailTamer said:
Not luckily for me. My Kia with 420hp V8 will not allow tire spin when I tried to do a sick burnout on my way to shop for new rear tires despite with Traction and stability control “off”.

By the way, AWD FTW for on high HP street-driven cars. I can’t imagine not having AWD to properly put down all of 1,000 horsepowers to ground.
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Thats what you get for buying Korean:laughing::flipoff2:

My Ram is the same way. "Off" is only partially off. On the Audi if you press it off its "limited". If you hold for 5 seconds its off off and 4 wheel burn outs can commence.
 
XtremeJ said:
Put a cage in a brand new Z06 about a decade ago (not an easy task given the hydro formed aluminum chassis)

He had 2 of that year. He had at least one of every single Corvette since mid 60’s and from 79 on had a brand new (less than 5 miles) Vette from every single year. He had a warehouse full.

He did open road racing so in the early 2000’s he would buy two new Vettes every year, one got a cage and one went to the warehouse. The caged car got sold at the end of every season. Always low miles.

Nice bloke. He said there were several other Vette collectors who had much larger collections
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That is incredible.
 
Alpine4x4 said:
Hell thats any "sports car" since early 2010's. Even my Ram 3500 diesel does it. "Torque Management" is what its usually called. My S4 has it as well and you can feel it when you try and hammer it with traction control on. Luckily in the Audi, I can turn it all the way off for shenanigans.
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My wife's SS at 430 hp is a shit show with the traction control fully off, and it's an auto, in the middle of the road setting it's a pretty capable car, But then again I'm no driver.

It has more ability as a car than I do as a driver, and its a 4 door sedan.

1000 hp without some electronic nannies in the hands of some old as dirt dude.
 
Stingray said:
My wife's SS at 430 hp is a shit show with the traction control fully off, and it's an auto, in the middle of the road setting it's a pretty capable car, But then again I'm no driver.

It has more ability as a car than I do as a driver, and its a 4 door sedan.

1000 hp without some electronic nannies in the hands of some old as dirt dude.
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Yeah its RWD and not a purpose built sports car, its gonna be a bit squirrely with the nanny bits off:laughing:

I fully understand the need for the torque management in sports cars. I can really feel mine working when the roads wet and I use more right foot than brain. Plenty of times its bogged and kept me planted and I thought "Damn, I about Mustanged my ass off the road there didnt I?":laughing::lmao: 1000hp RWD, fuck yeah it needs some monitoring, especially to save than transmission from snapping shafts left and right.
 
Ummduh said:
It'll be interesting to find out the MSRP. I'm guessing $250,000ish.

Looks absolutely bonkers though!
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Only a complete dumbass would pay Ferrari prices for the trailer park version. At the end of the day, it's still just a corvette
 
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