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Kelley Blue Book Trolls With Its Recent Review Of The 2019 Corvette ZR1

The new-for-2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is, simply put, the fastest, most track-capable factory Corvette ever made. Its beating heart is the supercharged, 6.2-liter V8 small-block LT5 engine – named after a 5.7L DOHC V8 built by Mercury Marine, which powered the original ZR-1 in the 1990s – and it endows the 2019 model with a whopping 755 horsepower and 715 lb-ft of torque. That’s reportedly good enough for a 2.85-second sprint to 60 mph with the optional eight-speed automatic transmission.

So it’s bound to be good on a racetrack, but what can you really do with the 2019 Corvette ZR1 on the street, while obeying all applicable traffic laws? That’s the question that Kelley Blue Book attempted to answer in its recent review of the American-born supercar, although in order to do it, KBB Managing Editor Micah Muzio had to get a bit, erm, creative.

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Over the course of a review spanning nearly nine minutes, Muzio demonstrates how to “hit the speed limit with haste,” wow your friends with the car’s raw acceleration, annoy them with its impressive braking power, use the Performance Data Recorder to capture part of a commute, and plenty more. It’s all meant in jest (we hope), but Muzio does raise a pretty valid point: How do you even begin to appreciate a supercar with such ludicrously high limits on roads full of potholes, other commuters, speed cameras, and of course, cops?

“Maybe – just maybe – the true appeal of a ZR1 is the certainty you’re piloting the pinnacle of Corvettedom,” Micah Muzio concludes at the end of his review. “As far as factory-issue ‘Vettes go, this is the fastest, priciest, best you can buy. Full stop.”

Maybe that’s all it takes.

Stay tuned to GM Authority for more great Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 news.

Aaron Brzozowski is a writer and motoring enthusiast from Detroit with an affinity for '80s German steel. He is not active on the Twitter these days, but you may send him a courier pigeon.

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  1. Never let a Lrius fan test a real car.

    Funny Blue Book did not address this with the Hellcat.

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  2. They too heavy they have to have707 crank to move a brick lol

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  3. Jarrett, you are so wrong. The hellcat isn’t going to outpace the Vette… but once it has rolling force.. the sheer acceleration pushes the limits of what your capable of putting down on the street without the use of drag tires. I own a 2019 charger hellcat. Plus the extra weight makes the ride smooth.. the vettes ride has improved since I owned a 2004… but for a daily driver car.. I’d take the hellcat. The New ZR1 Vette is better suited on a road track. Just buy the Z06 and save the money. Plus the hellcat I paid 70k… the ZR1 is pushing 6 digit territory. That’s a lot of doe for not much extra go.

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    1. No one buys a super car as a daily driver. No matter how much money they have or where they live. lest they’re suffering from vanity. If you can afford one, you already have a daily driver or two.

      If you can’t make it turn, it had better burn!

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  4. Some people like to drive their track car from their home to the track. Some people prefer not to buy, register, insure, and waste garage space on boring trailers and tow trucks. Some people prefer not to rig up the truck/trailer combo, get the track car on board, tow it through the lunch restaurant car park, and pay three times for parking space at the track. Some people like to open their garage and see a ZL1 and ZR1, not a truck’s ass end and a box trailer.

    But those people are actually just mid-life crisis wannabe’s whose only interest is their friend being jealous of their car, right?

    Well that’s what you would think if you only watch KBB and read the internet.

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  5. Go west young man go west where the roads are straight and endless.

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  6. We love speed. Certain cars are built to do certain things. Enjoy all of what we have, stop being biased. Some machines go straight. Some are able to turn. We should celebrate what we have.

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  7. The original ZR1 was a C3 not a C5. ?

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  8. Totally agree. Most people with a car like this have a daily ride. Sometimes more than one. Some people can afford this as well as trucks and trailers. In my opinion if that’s what you want and can afford it, why not? Don’t hate.

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  9. I’m 28 I have a ford transit for work. But the hellcat is my daily ride. That’s what I’m getting across. The ZR1 is awesome. It’s just not what I’d like to drive around on pot hole ridden roads of PA or over expansion joints on I-95.. or over a speed bump. Plus I can afford a 70k car not a 130k car.. or whatever ADM your going to shell out over MSRP at your dealer to get one of these cars in your garage.

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  10. I distinctly remember the day a midsize sedan suddenly seemed more desirable than my Camaro. I was still young. It’s called maturity. For some people this never happens. And that’s okay, too.

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    1. Was that the day you hired on to become an Asian troll?

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  11. Fully loaded the ZR1 is 156k… so my 70000 2019 fully loaded hellcat is less than half price.

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