Chevrolet Corvette Zr1 Vs. Lamborghini Revuelto: Which 1,000-hp Supercar Wins In A Drag Race?

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Back successful my day, $175,000 would bargain an full location successful an area wherever you mightiness not wholly dislike living. Today, it's nary longer capable to put a caller Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 in your garage, which presently starts at $178,195 if you see destination and nan state guzzler tax. That's an perfectly ridiculous magnitude of money to walk connected a car, but successful nan ZR1's defense, it has 1,064 horsepower and officially runs nan quarter-mile successful 9.6 seconds. Not bad for a car that still only sends its powerfulness to nan rear wheels. 

Meanwhile, pinch a starting value of much than $600,000, the Lamborghini Revuelto costs astir arsenic overmuch arsenic a mini location and only makes 1,001 hp. No 1 who owns a Revuelto cares because they make capable money to besides bargain a ZR1 immoderate clip they want, but connected paper, it judge sounds for illustration Chevrolet built a fund Revuelto-beater. Heck, nan ZR1 is moreover respective 100 pounds lighter than nan plug-in-hybrid Revuelto, pinch Car and Driver showing 4,290 pounds for nan Lamborghini and 3,831 pounds for nan Chevrolet. Their testing besides showed nan ZR1 moving nan quarter-mile two-tenths of a 2nd quicker than nan Revuelto.

That's conscionable testing, though. It isn't a existent head-to-head title successful nan existent world. If you lined some cars up astatine nan resistance portion and ran them against each other, which car would travel retired connected top? Well, DragTimes precocious decided to find out. 

Sadly, YouTube punishes creators who get correct to nan point, truthful nan intro connected this 1 is obnoxiously long. Skip to astir 5:10 if you want to commencement astatine what astir apt should person been nan opening of nan video. As tested, this ZR1 comes successful astatine astir $210,000. Meanwhile, nan Revuelto costs an eye-watering $683,000. That said, it does person a V12, and it sounds glorious. Not that nan ZR1 sounds bad — moreover pinch its turbos, nan 5.5-liter V8 besides sounds incredible. It's conscionable nary V12, you know?

Even pinch nan other weight you'd deliberation nan Revuelto would astatine slightest hit nan ZR1 disconnected nan line, but successful nan first race, that decidedly isn't nan case. The ZR1 gets up almost instantly and takes nan win. Allegedly, nan Lamborghini spun its tires connected nan launch, slowing it down, truthful for nan 2nd title they prepped nan resistance portion again. As you tin spot successful nan video, that's capable to springiness nan Revuelto nan separator and eke retired a win. Of course, you can't extremity nan crippled pinch nan people tied, truthful they ran a 3rd race, yet giving nan Revuelto nan wide win. 

You could opportunity that's bully news for drag-racing Lamborghini Revuelto owners who spent an other $400,000 connected their cars, but let's besides not hide that Chevrolet conscionable revealed the Corvette ZR1X. As an all-wheel-drive hybrid, it's a amended lucifer for nan Revuelto that happens to besides make 1,250 hp. It'll astir apt person a starting value of astatine slightest $200,000, but if nan rear-wheel-drive ZR1 tin already bent pinch nan Revuelto, thing tells america nan ZR1X will easy locomotion nan Lambo. Then again, nan Revuelto besides has a V12, and who tin put a value connected that?