[SPIED] Two New Videos of the 2025 Corvette ZR1s at the Nurburgring

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[SPIED] Two New Videos of the 2025 Corvette ZR1s at the Nurburgring


While the Corvette Engineering team may have left Germany after a two-week testing session with the upcoming C8 Corvette ZR1, their presence at the famous Nurburgring continues to generate new content for Corvette enthusiasts to pour over and see what’s coming next.

While there was much speculation about the ZR1s powertrain coming into October, we think the Nurburgring testing settled the “turbos” debate once and for all. We’ve heard enough to believe the Corvette ZR1 will have two turbos tucked inside the engine compartment where they will be mated to the Z06s 670-hp flat-plane crank V8 with the engine code being the LT7.

In these videos below, we see the engineers testing two different wing configurations and it’s our supposition that the Z06 wing will be the base on the ZR1 while the larger and flatter wing will be reserved for ZTK-like performance package. Chevy used the ZTK option code for the 2019 Corvette ZR1 and it will be interesting to see if it will be resurrected for C8 model. Having said that, to what end of the Earth will Chevy have to travel to find a vendor that can reliably provide even more carbon fiber aero parts in a production environment.

[SPIED] Two New Videos of the 2025 Corvette ZR1 at the Nurburgring

However, there still are some elements of the car that we are sure will only be revealed once the car is shown in its full customer specs. That includes the front opening on the hood for hot air extraction which is shown as a huge opening on the track cars as well as the new vents in the rear. How these will all be refined on the customer cars remains something to look forward to.

We’ve also seen the ZR1 wearing the new forged aluminum wheels, but we haven’t seen them wearing the carbon fiber wheels that fit the Z06 and E-Ray. Engineers tested the Z06 and E-Ray both with aluminum wheels and the Carbon Fiber wheels at the Nurburgring, but they haven’t been seen on any of the ZR1 prototypes.

These two new videos come from DPCcars and they provide some great new views of the upcoming C8 King of the Hill. Let us know what you think in the comments below.




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  4. A lot of people thought that these ZR1’s sounded more like a cross plane engine. A video I saw previously compared the sound of Z06 to these ZR1’s and there was an apparent difference. Maybe the turbos deepen the sound of the LT6 style flat plane engine. I wonder if they have changed the displacement of the LT6 to run the turbos. They would have to change the compression.

  5. Turbos muffle the exhaust so not sure what Chevy can do to satisfy the silly posers desiring intimidating sound to show off doing revs in the parking lot. Leave that “sound” jazz to the immature “Mustang kids” and instead concentrate on engineering and performance. ZR1 will make noise no matter what. The jump from 670 to 840 can be done with relatively small twin turbos that spin up fast. Small turbos give a more predictable power curve – necessary for predictable road course handling. No need to change the displacement. Compression is not determined by displacement. You can change chamber volume in the head, shorten the connecting rod or dish the piston. Nice to see Corvette finally catching up to 1987 Buick Grand National’s secret for big power. Why did it take so long to see turbos in production corvettes until now?

  7. We’ve heard that rumor as well and it will be interesting to see if that’s the case. However, the connecting dots still seem to point to the LT7 being a variant of the Z06’s LT6.

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