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Winged Battle: Porsche 911 GT3 RS Vs. C8 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
Find out how Chevy's long-awaited mid-engined C8 ZR1 stacks up against Porsche's definitive track weapon
The world just got a whole lot louder and a whole lot faster. Chevy just ripped the curtain off the long-awaited and highly-anticipated C8 2025 Corvette ZR1, and it’s not messing around. Packing a colossal 1,064 horsepower from its 5.5-liter twin-turbocharged flat-plane crank V8, this is also the first-ever mid-engined ’Vette with a ZR1 badge. The ZR1 line of course goes back decades and is a model line with track-bred performance. While this isn’t going to be an apples-to-apples comparison, how does this pinnacle of American performance from General Motors, stack up against the Porsche 911? With 691 horsepower, the 991 GT2 RS was one of the fastest and most powerful 911s ever made. But today, the most rad 911 you can buy is the GT3 RS. Let’s find out.
2024 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray - The Corvette Delivers Its First Electric Shock
Don’t panic, muscle fans - the Corvette hasn’t gone fully EV just yet. Instead, the 655 hp, 6.2-liter LT2 V8 gets help from an e-motor to launch it from 0-60 in just 2.4 seconds. But is this enough to outpace the Z06?
The Chevy Corvette’s history in the American muscle car world is significant, and the eighth-generation model is just a serious step up from what the car used to be. Debuted in 2019, the C8 Corvette transitioned to a rear-mid engine layout, reminiscent of those pesky Italians, giving Chevy the ticket to enter the supercar realm.