Chevrolet has unleashed the unthinkable in the Corvette ZR1. The “King of the Hill” returns with the most powerful V8 ever produced in America from an auto manufacturer, mind-
bending specs and iconic design to challenge the world’s best supercars in both coupe and convertible variants.
The Americans have been putting out overly-powerful performance cars over the past few years. The top dogs of that crop right now are the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 and the Dodge Challenger Demon. What if they went head-to-head at the drag-strip? Someone found the answer.
Chevrolet’s current-gen Corvette will be usurped in about 18 months by the revamped C8 model based on a tradition-shattering mid-engine architecture, but the C7 isn’t quite done just yet. Want proof? Here it is – the just-released top-dog ZR1, backed by performance stats that should send a shiver or two down the collective spines of the boffins at Zuffenhausen, Maranello and Sant’Agata Bolognese.
It took less than a couple of weeks for Chevrolet to come up with a convertible version of the bonkers Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 coupe that they unveiled at the 2017 Dubai Motor Show. The 2017 Los Angeles Motor Show became the venue for the reveal of the first-ever convertible Corvette to wear the venerated ZR1 badge since 1970.
Chevrolet introduced the 2019 Corvette ZR1 at a global media event in Dubai, just before the 2017 Dubai Motor Show where UAE residents were the first to get a public look at the supercar-baiting American.
Italian auto design firm Stile Bertone, now under the creative direction of former Pininfarina designer Jason Castriota, revealed their much-hyped new supercar called Project M, which turned out to be nothing more than a rebodied Chevy Corvette ZR1, calling it the Bertone Mantide.