The 2025 Chevy Corvette ZR1 Hits 60 MPH in 2.3 Seconds, Quicker Than E-Ray

• The Chevy Corvette ZR1 is incredibly quick for a rear-drive sports car.
• It bests some of the world's quickest, hardest-launching cars.
• We have the numbers to prove it.

The new Chevy Corvette ZR1 is one of this year's biggest stars, and we haven't even driven it yet. With 1,064 horsepower from its twin-turbo V8, we knew it would be quick, but we weren't sure if it was going to be able to put all that power down. Turns out this Vette (and its sticky Michelin rubber) sure can. Chevy has just unveiled the super-Vette's 0-60 mph time and (with the ZTK Performance package equipped) it hits 60 mph in just 2.3 seconds. 

After the sprint to 60 mph, Chevy says a ZTK-spec car will go on to finish the quarter mile in 9.6 seconds. The standard ZR1 — if you can really call it that — will do the 0-60 run in 2.5 seconds and run through the quarter mile just behind its more aggressive sibling at 9.7 seconds. The ZTK cars with that big rear wing cross the 1/4 mile mark at a staggering 150 miles-per, while the base car without the wing's drag penalty reaches the 1,320-foot mark at 152 mph. And let's not forget, the ZR1 is rear-wheel-drive only.

In a vacuum those numbers are impressive, but we test everything here at Edmunds, so let's add some context. The Chevy Corvette E-Ray we tested (with its front-mounted electric motor and all-wheel drive) took 2.8 seconds to get to 60 in our testing and hit the quarter-mile marker in 10.7 seconds at 125.9 mph.

It's also nearly as quick as some of the world's most powerful EVs. The Tesla Model S Plaid (with the track package) we tested hit 60 mph in 2.3 seconds and blitzed the quarter mile in 9.4 seconds at 150 mph. That puts the ZR1 only a few tenths away. The 2022 Porsche 911 Turbo S (one of the hardest launching internal combustion powered cars there is) lags behind the new ZR1 everywhere, hitting 60 in 2.6 seconds and crossing the quarter-mile mark in 10.2 seconds at 113.8 mph.

What's potentially even crazier than all of that is that Chevy claims these are the ZR1's numbers without the customary 1-foot rollout. The 1-foot rollout is an old drag-racing rule that essentially only starts a car's 0-60 time after it's moved 1 foot. Basically, it's a way of artificially making your car seem quicker than it really is. Other outlets that test vehicles report their figures with rollout subtracted. We here at Edmunds do not. 

The new ZR1 is nothing short of incredible for a purely internal combustion engine car. How it handles corners remains to be seen, but if these figures are any indication, we doubt we'll be disappointed when we get behind the wheel next year.