Motor Trend’s Best Driver’s Car competition is over, but the publication always sends the weeks of testing and judging out with a bang. That is World’s Greatest Drag Race.
All 12 competitors from Best Driver’s Car line up at an airstrip for one final shootout in a quarter-mile drag race. This year, the 2017 C7 Corvette Grand Sport and 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE represented the bowtie brand, but plenty of stiff competition was present. Foremost, MT swapped out the Mazda MX-5 Miata for a Tesla Model S P100D, since the Miata had no chance whatsoever. As we all know, the Tesla is a rocket from launch, with instant torque.
Additionally, the Nissan GT-R Nismo, AMG GT R, McLaren 570GT and the Ferrari 488 GTB were all looking for a win. Can the Corvette Grand Sport or 650-horsepower Camaro ZL1 1LE take down the supercars? Or come close? You’ll have to press play above to find out.
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The ZL1 could do better.
Why wouldn’t they race a Z-06????? Makes the Vette look like a dog!!!!!! Poor reportage!!!!!!!
True ! Why not Z-06 with rest of these Super Sports Cars.
Motortrend already raced the Z06 in World’s Greatest Drag Race 5. They don’t ever repeat the same cars. Like if do the Camaro SS one year the next they’ll do the ZL1.. etc etc.
I dont care if they dont repeat the same car twice. That just shows how stupid they are the Zo6 was the car that should have been in here. It’s 0 to 60 is under 3 seconds with the auto and the grand sport is 3.5 and the zr1 would have won.
Great race and I appreciate the 1/4 mile times. Even though I am a Chevy man, wonder why the Fords weren’t invited ? That Tesla is an electric rocket, but to go fast like that, I have to win the lottery.
This was a rather lackluster Best Driver’s Car (BDC) competition for GM. Sure the ZL1 1LE was deservedly praised for it’s super-car slaying track performance, but it and the Grand Sport were not as highly favored as I’d expected…..Can’t wait to see what the next ZR1 will do! If that fails to win the next BDC competition, then it’s time for GM to unleash the rear-engine Vette!
Every time I watch this so called drag race I have to laugh. Either some the drivers can’t handle the cars or it is staged. I believe the latter.
Driver competency is likely a big factor.
o zl1 1le could be in automatic mode, so it would arrive in 11.5 seconds at 125 mph
Where’s all that Tesla hate now? LOL
Lets do a half mile run and see how it plays out