Chevrolet landed the most powerful, road-going Corvette yet for the first time in America at the 2017 Los Angeles International Auto Show.
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Los Angeles International Auto Show – What Happens! And Chevrolet has just unveiled the world’s most powerful production Corvette for the first time on American soil. Meet the brand new, completely obsessed with 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. Originally introduced in Dubai earlier this month, the new ZR1 is based on the current-generation C7 Corvette and, in fact, is the successor to the previous generation CR ZR1 generation of 2009, a car that already had ridiculous characteristics.
Now, just imagine that car, except with 755 horsepower and 715 pound-feet of twist and wrapped in the C7’s latest body.
The 2019 C7 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 outperforms the C6 ZR1 by 117 horses and 111 torques. The new ZR1 is powered by Chevrolet Performance’s latest LT5 engine, the company’s most powerful production engine. It is based on the 6.2-liter LT4 V8 Z06. But now it is equipped with a completely new supercharger that is more efficient with airflow. It is still cooling, providing a displacement volume of 52% more than the Z06 LT4. General Motors also installed its first dual-fuel injector fuel supply system, offering both intake and direct injection for optimum fuel atomization.
The 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 can be equipped with either a seven-speed manual or an eight-speed automatic transmission, making it the first ZR1 to offer such a model. Chevrolet’s official performance indicators have not yet been disclosed, except that they managed to accelerate a top speed of up to 210 mph. But for comparison: the last-generation Corvette ZR1 took just 3.3 seconds to break 60 from a standstill with a maximum acceleration of about 200 miles per hour.
So, given that the new ZR1 has tremendous power, the new machine must be much faster to climb to the top.
-Jack Wilson