As if the 638-hp 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 wasn’t powerful enough already, Hennessey Motorsports has decided to offer two performance package upgrades for the Chevy beast that takes it up to a total of 755-hp. The first package, known as the ZR700, adds a supercharger pulley and blower snout upgrade, an intercooler system upgrade, a [...]
While Motor Trend picks the Nissan GT-R as its car of the year and Top Gear picks the Volkswagen Scirocco – Jeremy Clarkson, who is well known for his hatred of American automobiles, has named his car of the year as the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. “Oh, it”s not built very well,” said Clarkson. “After [...]
While many of you may be disappointed by the Detroit Big 3 right now, let’s set our anger and other feelings aside and let Jay Leno remind us of some of the amazing cars that Detroit has produced for us. The Chevrolet Corvette has not only become an American icon but has taken on its [...]
While Motor Trend was hanging out at Chrysler’s Arizona Proving Grounds in over half a million dollars worth of the world’s hottest cars, they decided it was the perfect opportunity to take each vehicle to its top speed. Check out these videos of the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, Porsche 911 GT2, Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano and the [...]
While Porsche and Nissan continue to argue over the Nissan GT-R Nurburgring Nordschleife lap time of 7:29, the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 knocked another 4 seconds off it’s already blazing fast time of 7:26.4. Driver Jan Magnussen, a race car driver from Denmark and a GM factory driver, took the Corvette ZR1 around the Nordschleife in 7:22.4. [...]
The 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1‘s LS9 6.2 liter supercharged V8 allows the supercar to be the most power and fastest production car ever produced by GM. Now the 638 horsepower engine will be available as a complete crate engine package from GM Performance Parts in the third quarter of 2009. The LS9 crate engine will [...]
Motor Trend recently hit up the hot Arizona desert to test the most powerful GM car ever built – the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. Testing the 638-hp 6.2L V8 at Chrysler’s Proving Grounds, Motor Trend hit 0 to 60 mph in 3.3 seconds (CARandDRIVER recently reported 3.4 seconds). Comparing that to its rival, the Dodge Viper SRT-10 [...]
A post on DigitalCorvettes yesterday started a rumor that production for the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1has ended. The rumor came after GM’s Bowling Green plant shut down this week. Production is expected to resume next week. According to Terry Rhadigan (contacted by AutoBlog), Chevrolet’s manager for global communications, the rumor is totally “not true.” GM still [...]
When GM released the very first details on the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 it made it a point to emphasize that you get outstanding performance at an outstanding price. Head over to Chevrolet.com and you’ll be surprised that you can get a 638-hp Corvette that does 0 to 60 in 3.5 secs with a starting [...]
It was only a matter of time before someone threw the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 on the dyno to see how much power the Nurburgring champ was sending to the rear wheels. Well, a lucky Corvette Forum member known as ‘Alvin’ had two 2009 Corvette ZR1′s to play around with on a Dynojet 248. The [...]
