2019 Corvette ZR1 - Jay Leno's Garage

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, the car and at my side, here, the best high-performance bargain of the century. This is a

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Corvette zr1 with 755 horsepower, it's amazing. I was lucky enough to drive one of these at over 200 miles per hour. hour at 204 miles per hour exactly for I don't know 4050 miles at the Milford Proving Ground, we got this one from our friends at Spring Mountain, which is the race track outside of Nevada, right outside of Las Vegas, rather, and the good thing is when you buy a Corvette zr1 including the price two days at the Spring Mountain driving school where they will tell you how to avoid hitting a car on the other side of the street when you get out of the cars and a coffee, you know that they'll teach you how to drive this sensibly and because it's the biggest racetrack there is, certainly in the West, certainly, in the United States, as far as I know, you can speed this up, let's bring in Todd Crutcher, Todd, You come in, you meet the other market director, what do you do?

Yes, I am now the director of auction marketing. I've been on that track. It's a great track. You have all kinds of exit space. It is fun. And the Corvette is the perfect vehicle for that track. How did you do it? guys you got it before we couldn't even get this from GM we had to get it from you guys because this is a 20-19 well we have a whole fleet of them really again any new owners of new zr1 owners get a two. day school at Rodfellows performance driving school and what these retails are for, we'll find out in a minute, but it's certainly the performance bargain of all time, it's just for me, I mean you've got Ferrari McLaren Lamborghini, whatever Hi Pagani levels of power and performance for a fraction of the price, actually I mean it's pretty amazing, it's 755 horsepower and what I love about the Corvette is that they haven't abandoned those of us of us who like manual transmission and it's a 7 speed manual that I love.

I find it mind boggling, they always say only a small percentage of people buy a manual and the fact that Corvette went to the trouble of making a 7 speed transmission when a 6 speed would have been more than adequate. I just like the fact. that they put that level of commitment in for those who like the manual transmission, although the automatic is also pretty amazing and then we know when we have both and it's the school of owners, so if it doesn't matter if you drive an automatic or a manual, we I have a car for you, so what does it entail?

So when you buy a CR and go to driving school, what happens? So your first day is a day where you sit in the classroom explaining how it works, you do it well. in the car, how does it work? Believe it or not, it starts the day before. Okay, come in and you arrived at our doors. We have a nice condo waiting for you to stay for breakfast and then you really get into it. you walk into your classroom and you know your core values ​​well in your classroom, so we'll have 30 minutes inside a real classroom and you'll be outside in the car and you'll join in understanding it, going through the mode dials, understanding everything this car.

I can do, yeah, I mean, I think it's cool because there are people who just buy things and they have no idea what they're doing, you know, all you have to do is turn on YouTube, they're the idiots, pull it out and scroll through. you know it's just horrible you know crazy so I think it's great and really responsible that's also included in the price of the vehicle what makes us different is the wing everyone has the wing Eoin no though don't start with the wing, there's a, there's us, there's a smaller wing that you can start with and then you can modify it, okay, but this is definitely a track package vehicle and it's amazing on the track, it really is. , I imagine it must be.

You certainly have to go with the exotic if you don't blow the doors off now we haven't had any that can keep up with you yeah well that's what I love. You know, for me there are two brands that always seem to come up in these shootings. Porsche and Corvette are fine, and you know, a lot of times the exotic guys come in and their car is five years old and not 1,200 miles. You know this guy who got 1800 and the Porsche guys in the Corvette show up and they got 60,000 miles 8,000 miles. and follow a hard track for miles because that's the good thing about these, they can take a beating and still go, as the old expression goes well, this is fantastic and thank you very much for having this square drive, anyone who has to do it.

Own a Corvette to sign up, you don't have to be an owner, but I will say that to drive the zero at our facility, you have to be an owner, but I mean, we have classes for everyone, regardless of us. We have all the Corvettes, so it's a Stingray Grand Sport zo6, the zero we have, we have a car for you, the other cars are all, anyone can come in, it doesn't matter who you are, you don't have to own the car. God thanks. you really appreciate it thank you thank you for having us thank you thank you let's get someone who knows this car inside and out he is the product specialist for Corvette Shadbolt OMG again my friend it's good to see you here before you know when I bought my zr1 Ten years ago , that was the end of everything, that was incredible.

It had 640 horsepower, which people thought was just the end of the world, yeah, and this is another 100 and whatever, look how bad my math is, but that one is still scary. I'm dying, it's amazing how confident I am driving this, as I said in Milford, and I was surprised at how aerodynamically sound it was. I mean, I told this story 10 years ago, actually over 10 years ago, when I took the Porsche Carrera to Talladega, we did a bunch of 190s and it was like I moved a little bit, oh man, this is just a cut , you are a little tense, where is this?

We carry it over 200 miles a year. hour for a long distance, you know it's very stable, so how far aerodynamics is coming in just over a decade is pretty amazing, yeah, I mean, it's one thing to get a car up to that speed and quite another. It is the composition to achieve it. Stay on the ground, this aero package is actually going full speed, there's 950 pounds of downforce on the top of this car to keep it glued to the ground, which he felt, you know, he was at the Milford Proving Ground with Tash, he's the boss.

Corvette engineer, the man behind it all, we were having a conversation 204 miles away now or we were talking and it wasn't white knuckles. I'm calling home, man, this is scary. I felt like I was going 80 miles an hour on the freeway, yeah, I mean, it was amazing. I wasn't even until I saw the footage after they exploded as we drove past the camera, yeah the ones that were going, those are the speeds the Indy cars will hit on the track, I know. I know it's amazing because you know I've said this before, there are so many manufacturers that claim that cars have the top speed limit at bt 212 205 whatever, but in the real world that's 188, they don't go over it and we had a totally original zr1 with road tires and gas pump, nothing trick, nothing, no chip and boom we ran 204 for almost 40 50 miles so yeah it's awesome so tell us how it's different from my zr1 well , so this round. of the Corvette line, this is the zr1 that sits above the zo6, 650 horsepower, 600 pound-feet of torque, and 50 pound-feet of torque.

What's different about this car is the LT 5 engine under the hood, okay, it's about 50 percent. larger than the zo6 motor and is largely due to the blower. Well that blower blows out about 200 or 2.65 liters of air pushed into the engine when you say it's 50% bigger the engines aren't physically 50% bigger we know that full package under the hood oh space that the motor and fan would take up well, so it's actually a bigger fan, that's exactly it, you get more, yes it's still the 6.2 liter v8, but the package with all the coolers and everything you need to keeping this running and cool takes up about 50 percent more space.

Tell us about the brakes. These are unique to this car. We took them straight from the race car. Its 15-inch Brembo brakes, carbon ceramics. about four six pistons in the front, four pistons in the rear and the combination is unique to the zr1, while on the zo6 you have correct brake options, but this comes with this car, these break, this brake setup comes with this car and it's safe to say this. it's the same Brembo brake and it was an Erick carbon ceramic carbon ceramic disc that you would get on any right European exotic, yeah, same thing, except because it's a Corvette and a Chevrolet, they can mass produce it and give it to you for a more reasonable price , yes, and the braking distances are therefore notable, yes, and there is no brake fade like other cars, which is what keeps this car separate from much of the competition, as you can run it all on the track.

All day long it stays cool and the brakes will always stop you. It's amazing how good it's gotten. I'm just surprised, you know, because you might be scared. Yes, it pulls so hard. I mean, it's just amazing and it gets pretty good. gas mileage too than that, yeah, I mean, if you dial back and you know that whizzing down the highway, the blower shuts off properly and then you can get 25 miles per gallon, yeah, on the highway, that's awesome to me, too It's a t-top. They're all t-shirts, right, it's a goal, our goal time, yeah, the tea table would be in sections, yeah, and these are in the back, yeah, I mean, but there's also a convertible variant for this, right , yeah, which is pretty remarkable, remember a couple of years ago we didn't even do the deep zo6 right with a convertible and we do it for this.

You know, this seems like the smartest option to me because you have the security and it is for all intensive purposes. It's a convertible. Know? It also looks better when it's put together, like, yes, it really is. I mean, like a race car, you have vents everywhere to get the heat out in the old days, this would have been a little fake, you know, just to give it a try, but these are. really functional and this front end is new, isn't it? Yes, everything from the bottom of the windshield forward is practically new and like you said, everything you see is functional.

This car is equipped with the z2k performance package in dry form, it's packaged and the The front end here brings about 40 percent more airflow through the front end. Turn on the motor fan and then zo6. Know? I have some exotic cars and some of them make me laugh, like on my McLaren, you have this little splitter. in the front so you know just this piece of plastic here now if you break that police piece of plastic on the McLaren you can get a new piece of plastic or a zo6 they're the same price he really laughs he's OK, should I buy another piece of plastic? or maybe because you don't say if that's why for me these are just I don't know how they do it for that price I won't comment I say it's a lot I know it's a lot of money but if you were to go to pieces to get this car it would cost you hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Dollars.

I can do it when these brakes were $20,000, sad, yeah, if you had them optional on some European exotics, that's what amazes me, the fact that they can do it. that efficiently at this price, you see, it seems that under the hood you open it completely. I'll go this way, there's more carbon fiber in this car than any GM vehicle we've ever made, yes I believe you, of course there is. I've got your dry sump lubrication system here, well, there's not much to see here, a lot of things here, they're packed here and what you're seeing here is the blower shroud, and that's really what our engineers do.

Took this car to the next level. I was packing all of this here. You'll certainly see that when you're sitting in the driver's seat, but you look at the hood here and it just goes around the top of the engine cover, yeah. very cool and of course this is all real carbon fiber you know for years a lot of people made carbon fiber look yeah like kosher style food no stickers yeah yeah that's carbon fiber really and obviously, gosh, it's quite light, very light, yes, this is the front. fenders, roof panel, rear deck, rear side panels, all carbon fiber and of course all the airless treatments too, yes I mean the arrow on the front, look how much air this one is swallowing thing, it's pretty amazing, it just absorbs it, yeah.

This takes about 40% more air than the zo6. Wow, with 13 exchangers on your heat exchangers, yeah, you know, every year I keep thinking, well, this is as high as they can go and this is pretty amazing, I mean 755 horsepower, that's cause for concern. worry. Did you know that the race car was just a few years ago? Yes, that speed in the ability to adhere toOk I mean this is probably a little bit more than your six, right? Yeah, but if you want the ultimate Corvette, this is pretty much it, but fourth fear feels like second gear, it's funny, keep it up, it has so much second gear, it's so much. how obscure is it what is the torque rating at 7:15 isn't that ridiculous those are like diesel numbers yeah like a tractor yeah that's awesome it all goes back to ed Cole he's the father of the small block Chevy Edie Cole Wow, you know I do President General Motors developed Corvair Comfort Time magazine a couple of times.

Wehling every year. Corvette just wows the payoff more than he thought. My zr1 was fast. This is really amazing. Chad, thank you very much. It's a pleasure. Thanks to Todd from Spring Mountain again when you go to Las Vegas. during the day to stay out of trouble, escape from the clothes, the girls, escape to the card table, take a ride in the supermarket or taxi, go to Spring Mountain, see the track and you will have the time of your life, That's for sure, and I. It will be less risky, trust me, you know we didn't even do this card justice today.

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