[VIDEO] Modded Lamborghini Revuelto Still Can’t Hang with C8 Corvette ZR1X

Jun 15, 2026

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[VIDEO] Modded Lamborghini Revuelto Still Can't Hang with C8 Corvette ZR1X

It’s still hard to get used to living in a world where a factory-fresh Chevrolet can make the top-ot-the-line V12 Lamborghini from the lineage of Miura, Countach, and Diablo look Diab-slow (haven’t we used that joke before?).

The current keeper of head of the Sant’Agata speed family is called the Revuelto, it picked up where the Aventador Ultimae left off except now its 6.5L (396 ci) V12 makes 814 horsepower. While we still think it’d be more exciting in ZR1 form (lightweight RWD ICE-only), it’s currently available as an “X,” with hybrid tech that brings total system output to a Bugatti Veyron-equaling 1,001 HP.

As we saw in May, the stock Lambo struggles to hang with the regular 1,064-horse ZR1, so the most recent Drag Times video that pits the $608,000 (with a current lease deal of $7,299 per month for 36 months with $60k down!) Italian against the ‘Vette’s take on the performance hybrid formula doesn’t even seem worth doing, until a plot twist is revealed. The Arancio Argos (orange) ZR1X competitor is claiming a 100 HP gain from upgrades including a full exhaust. Now that the 3x more expensive Euro has undergone some costly enhancements, it’s only 150 ponies shy of the X’s output!

We don’t like to spoil results on these things, but we couldn’t help but include the title above after watching the X so easily dispatch such high-end metal in consecutive runs. Put on your Apollo Creed trunks and Uncle Sam top hat and be sure to include this absolute beatdown as a part of your pre-America 250 celebrations!

Source:
DragTimes

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2 COMMENTS

TurboCat Jun 16, 2026 At 6:14 pm

Can we stop with the stupid drag races already? NO ONE buys a Lambo of any stripe to drag race it. NO ONE. “Drag race” is not a phase in the vocabulary of the engineers at Lamborghini. It was never intended for this task. Really. As far as that goes, the Corvette engineers didn’t ship the ZR1x around the country to our iconic road courses and to the Nurburgring and drag race it; they blasted it around road courses to crack those records, not to trip drag strips. Why? because this is a hard core road racing machine. Straight line acceleration is just one of many performance parameters, not the only one.

They was nary a mention of how either machine handles, how hard it corners or how track worthy the brakes are. Compare the two on a serious ROAD COURSE where these cars belong.
Bob in FL Jun 17, 2026 At 7:38 am

As we know, Corvettes have to do it all. The article in this case is about straight line performance. Note that 95% of high performance cars are driven on the street which is all straight line. As a retired engineer, powertrains interest me and I enjoy these comparisons.

For the 5%, there are plenty of ROAD COURSE articles out there too where driver attitude, training, experience and health can be a huge variable. I find those articles less interesting because the variability makes the outcome less objective. But they’re lots of fun to read. Even though I’m in the 95% crowd, I’m not complaining.