
AYFKM? Is this another one of those humorous fake advertisments for a car that doesn’t exist?
Apparently not:
With 1,250 horsepower, the Corvette ZR1X has its sights set on the Ferrari F80 and McLaren W1….The 2025 Corvette ZR1 may already be the fastest rear-wheel-drive car to touch down on our planet: A record-stomping track monster that crushes 60 miles per hour in 2.2 seconds, and whose 233-mph top speed reads like an AI hallucination.
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And it all costs $178,195 to start, including a $3,000 gas-guzzler tax for a ZR1 that can inhale two gallons of premium unleaded per minute at full power. The drinking problem is real, but you can barely buy a 911 GTS for this much cash; the 532-hp Porsche, with precisely half the ZR1’s 1,064 horses, starts from $167,000.
Read the whole, astounding story behind this beast. Or watch the video. Or both.
I read somewhere that for a similar car, the tyres would only last fifteen minutes at full speed. But that didn’t matter much as the fuel tank only held enough to get up to and be at that speed for just a couple of minutes. Safety design in engineering 😉