The new 2025 Corvette ZR1—driven by a GM executive—has set a top speed record unrivaled by any current production car priced under $1 million. The big question: Why?

The 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 was designed to blow the doors off the competition, but no one expected it to set this record for speed.

Equipped with a twin-turbo 5.5L V8 producing 1,064 horsepower and 828 lb-ft of torque, the 2025 Corvette ZR1 challenges the world’s fastest hypercars with a jaw-dropping top speed.

That is the 2025 Chevrolet C8 ZR1 Corvette's top speed. It is the fastest production car priced under $1 million and all with no modifications, other than the seats. Aside from that, the model that achieved this top speed was a standard production model that holds the spot as one of the fastest production cars produced by an American manufacturer and is not only the fastest ZR1 model ever,

Following top-speed testing in Germany, the 2025 Chevy Corvette ZR1 is now the fastest American production car of all time and the fastest car under $1 million.

The 2025 Corvette ZR1 reached a record-breaking 233 mph with GM President Mark Reuss behind the wheel, making it America’s fastest car. T he 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 has offi

Chevrolet said the upcoming Corvette ZR1 is both the fastest car and has the most powerful V-8 engine ever built by an automaker in the U.S.