- Chevrolet has announced that the unveiling of the 2025 Corvette ZR1 will take place on July 25.
- GM is telling fans to brace themselves for the “unthinkable,” suggesting that the car will move like no other Corvette before it.
- The new ZR1 will likely be equipped with a twin-turbo 5.5-liter V8, capable of producing 850 hp and 825 lb-ft of torque.
Update (June 20): The countdown to the debut of the new 2025 Corvette ZR1 is almost over – just a few weeks left until July 25th, as Chevrolet confirmed today. To ramp up excitement, Chevy has released a new teaser. This brief clip provides a raw preview of the sound from the car’s heart – the twin-turbocharged flat-plane crank V8 engine.
Chevy has promised that “no Corvette has ever moved quite like this,” and describes the ZR1 as “unthinkable.” Unfortunately, little more is revealed in the teaser video, though we do get to see a darkened silhouette of the car racing through smoke.
Read: 2025 Corvette ZR1 Spied On The Nürburgring, What Lap Time Do You Think It Ran?
Those shots reveal a prominent wing on the back of the ZR1, a feature already spotted in spy shots of several prototype models undergoing testing. The substantial size of the aero element posed a challenge for Chevy engineers to conceal during testing at the Nurburgring, the epicenter of global high-performance development.
With larger end plates and a straighter design, the wing appears even more aggressive than the Corvette Z06’s optional Z07 Performance Package rear spoiler. That one already generates 734 lbs (333 kg) of downforce, indicating that the ZR1’s wing will provide significant downward pressure helping glue the car onto the road.
And that will be important, because the ZR1 is expected to be quite powerful. Information from a GM parts catalog seems to have corroborated earlier rumors indicating that it will be propelled by a twin-turbocharged iteration of the Z06’s 5.5-liter flat-plane crankshaft V8.
Questions remain about the finer details, but a purportedly official document leaked early in the C8 Corvette’s lifecycle (and which has been pretty accurate up until now) suggests that the engine will make 850 hp (634 kW / 862 PS) and 825 lb-ft (1,119 Nm) of torque.
Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait until this summer to confirm if all these reports and rumors are accurate. However, if the lineup so far is any indication, the Corvette ZR1 promises to be an impressive beast.