The latest Corvette ZR1 is the fastest yet — and it’s not even close.
With a massive 1,064 horsepower on tap, you know the 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 isn’t screwing around when it comes to performance. Even the old C7 CR1 was no slouch, but the mid-engined C8 certainly kicks things up a notch or two. In fact, after its initial debut back in July, the automaker published the new model’s official top speed: 233 mph.
To achieve that goal, Chevrolet brought two ZR1s to Papenburg, Germany, and its banked 7.8-mile oval track. Once there, GM President Mark Reuss made the top speed runs (in both directions, taking the average of the two). So, on top of claiming a sub-3-second 0-60 time and a quarter-mile time under 10 seconds, this is now officially Chevrolet’s fastest production car to date.
Chevrolet published a six-minute documentary on setting the ZR1’s pace that you can check out below.
“I tell you, I’ve never obviously gone that fast,” Reuss says on the run, “but you can’t do it without confidence, and the confidence comes from all the people that are here that prepare the car, but also the engineers that engineer it.”
The 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 will kick off production in Kentucky next year. We still don’t know exactly how much it’s going to cost, but with these sorts of mind-bending performance figures, it won’t come cheap…for a Corvette, at least. Against the hypercars we typically look to for 230-plus-mph top speed like the Bugatti Chiron or Tourbillon, it will definitely be a bargain, as it may well fall around the $200,000 mark. On that basis, the Corvette is doing what it always has, offering an all-American poke in the eye to Europe’s elite sports cars.
