07 July 2009 - 10:00
Texan tuner reveals 525kW ZR1
More good news from our gung-ho friends at Hennessey. Barely a week goes by without the Texan tuning firm unleashing a mentalist muscle car. So all hail the Corvette Z700 - the, er, ‘performance' version of the slow and tiresome ZR1.
The Z700 is to the standard ZR1 what the GT3 is to a 911: a pared-down, power-crazed version of itself. Hennessey has gone for lightweight wheels and carbon fibre body bits, with some extra flips and flaps to increase downforce. Then its engineers injected the engine with some extra testosterone to boost power to 525kW.
The price for all this is just over US$200,000, or twice the price of a standard car.
Clearly these guys have large man parts. And to prove it, they'll be taking it to the Nurburgring later this year to set some times,
Now watch Jezza drive the ZR1 in the boys' second big US trip:
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