5 Surprising Cars With Less Horsepower Than the 2025 Corvette ZR1

The Corvette has been a supercar killer for a while. Now, it's hunting hypercars.

Chevrolet on late Thursday revealed the 2025 Corvette ZR1 in all its 1,064-horsepower, split-window, rear-drive (!) glory. You can read all the nerdy details over this way, but needless to say, the 'Vette has graduated to a whole new level of performance. The first production model to crack four figures—in horsepower, torque (in Newton-meters), and downforce (pounds)—the ZR1 will be setting some serious firepower in its sights.

To illustrate just what the ZR1 is likely to accomplish when it arrives next year, we've assembled a brief list of vehicles it boasts more horsepower than. Who doesn't like a bit of bench racing?

Slight spoiler alert: don't expect any Ferraris or Paganis; the Vette outpowers 'em all.

Arguably the car to begin make four digits the entry point of hypercardom, the Bugatti Veyron burst onto the scene almost exactly 20 years prior to the C8 Corvette ZR1. With a quad-turbo, 8.0-liter W16 engine, the Veyron was briefly the fastest car in the world in 2005, clocking a certified 253.81 mph (408.47 km/h). The more powerful Super Sport varient upped the ante to 267.856 mph (431.072 km/h) five years later. Today, Bugatti is gearing up to build the Tourbillon, a hybrid capable of 1,800 horsepower—1,000 of which comes from a naturally-aspirated V16.

Dodge's production drag car might have a second on the ZR1 down the quarter mile—it'll do it in 8.91 seconds—but last year's Challenger SRT Demon 170 can't beat it for power. The final send-off for the beloved Challenger saw the Hellcat turned up to... twelve? Joining the four-figure club gave the Challenger enough motive force to crack 2 gs of accelerative force on drag slicks. It's easily the bargain of this group, at least on paper: the MSRP was just shy of $100,000 in the US, though finding one at that price was essentially impossible.

Even the current Nürburgring lap record holder is (slightly) down on power compared to the ZR1. Essentially a modern F1 powertrain draped in a slippery road car shape, the AMG One features far and away the tiniest powertrain here: a 1.6-liter turbo V6. It produces barely over half that total horsepower figure, mind you: an MGU-H turbocharger, KERS e-motor, and a pair of front electric motors lend helping hands, resulting in the headline 1,049 hp figure.

Chevrolet stated every ZR1 test driver cracked 200 mph (321 km/h) on their very first test laps at the Nordschleife. Will the C8 Vette challenge the limited-production, $2.7 million hypercar from Stuttgart? We'd love to find out.

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