Ride along as Corvette ZR1 lead development engineer Chris Barber takes us on a short but very
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00:00We're at GM's Milford Proving Grounds with the 2025 Chevy Corvette ZR1 and we are about
00:06to take a very fast ride.
01:06This car makes 1064 horsepower from a twin-turbo 5.5 liter V8.
01:13828 pound-feet of torque and Chris can we hit 200 today? I think we can very easily.
01:31100 miles an hour.
01:36160.
01:416 near 175.
01:45Just keeps pulling. This is about a two and a half miles straight.
01:52198, 199, 200.
01:56205, 206. That is a fast car.
02:14That is amazing.
02:20Chevy's calling this car the king of the hill. Throwback to the original ZR1.
02:26And we've got a while before we drive it but man the specs
02:33make it sound like it has absolutely earned that title.
02:38Nice little bank turn here. That's fun. Yeah this is a fun turn for sure.
02:48I'm just gonna cruise in and keep it cool.
02:49Make a lot of heat when you're making a thousand plus horsepower from a V8 engine.
03:00Yeah we spent a lot of time making sure that we could do runs like this
03:04over and over and over even in hot conditions. It's over 80 degrees.
03:10Yeah your coolant's showing 185. Seems pretty cool.
03:17185. Seems pretty comfortable to me. Exactly.
03:35And it's very easy to do. It's crazy but super stable right? I mean you're just holding the
03:43wheel straight. Solid. The car's very planted. You're not doing any work almost. Just foot down.
04:01I'll do a run up and over this this fence so that you can
04:05you can get a look down the track. It's a cool view to see the whole thing. 2.5 miles.
04:10I think we hit 200 at around like the 1.3 or 1.4 marker. Wow.
04:24So there's more in it we're just being conservative.
04:33Oh yeah. That's a lot of road.
04:37That's what you need to develop a car like this right? Exactly. Without the aero package they're
04:42saying a top speed of more than 215 miles an hour. Yep. That was an awesome ride. Two and a half miles
04:50full throttle almost the entire time. We hit 206 miles an hour and it was just totally stable.