Latest news with #DragTimes
Yahoo
20-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Vs. Lamborghini Revuelto: Which 1,000-HP Supercar Wins In A Drag Race?
Back in my day, $175,000 would buy an entire house in an area where you might not completely hate living. Today, it's no longer enough to put a new Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 in your garage, which currently starts at $178,195 if you include destination and the gas guzzler tax. That's an absolutely ridiculous amount of money to spend on a car, but in the ZR1's defense, it has 1,064 horsepower and officially runs the quarter-mile in 9.6 seconds. Not bad for a car that still only sends its power to the rear wheels. Meanwhile, with a starting price of more than $600,000, the Lamborghini Revuelto costs about as much as a small house and only makes 1,001 hp. No one who owns a Revuelto cares because they make enough money to also buy a ZR1 any time they want, but on paper, it sure sounds like Chevrolet built a budget Revuelto-beater. Heck, the ZR1 is even several hundred pounds lighter than the plug-in-hybrid Revuelto, with Car and Driver showing 4,290 pounds for the Lamborghini and 3,831 pounds for the Chevrolet. Their testing also showed the ZR1 running the quarter-mile two-tenths of a second quicker than the Revuelto. That's just testing, though. It isn't a real head-to-head race in the real world. If you lined both cars up at the drag strip and ran them against each other, which car would come out on top? Well, DragTimes recently decided to find out. Read more: These Are The Most Annoying Things About Your Cars Italy Vs. America Sadly, YouTube punishes creators who get right to the point, so the intro on this one is obnoxiously long. Skip to about 5:10 if you want to start at what probably should have been the beginning of the video. As tested, this ZR1 comes in at about $210,000. Meanwhile, the Revuelto cost an eye-watering $683,000. That said, it does have a V12, and it sounds glorious. Not that the ZR1 sounds bad — even with its turbos, the 5.5-liter V8 also sounds incredible. It's just no V12, you know? Even with the extra weight you'd think the Revuelto would at least beat the ZR1 off the line, but in the first race, that definitely isn't the case. The ZR1 gets ahead almost immediately and takes the win. Allegedly, the Lamborghini spun its tires on the launch, slowing it down, so for the second race they prepped the drag strip again. As you can see in the video, that's enough to give the Revuelto the edge and eke out a win. Of course, you can't end the game with the score tied, so they ran a third race, ultimately giving the Revuelto the overall win. You could say that's good news for drag-racing Lamborghini Revuelto owners who spent an extra $400,000 on their cars, but let's also not forget that Chevrolet just revealed the Corvette ZR1X. As an all-wheel-drive hybrid, it's a better match for the Revuelto that happens to also make 1,250 hp. It'll probably have a starting price of at least $200,000, but if the rear-wheel-drive ZR1 can already hang with the Revuelto, something tells us the ZR1X will easily walk the Lambo. Then again, the Revuelto also has a V12, and who can put a price on that? Want more like this? Join the Jalopnik newsletter to get the latest auto news sent straight to your inbox... Read the original article on Jalopnik.
Yahoo
27-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Dodge Demon 170 Races Tesla Model S Plaid
Read the full story on Backfire News Everyone seems to remember the first time a Dodge Challenger and Tesla Model S raced and the electric car won. Suddenly, computer nerds became drag racing experts and declared the end of internal combustion engines, muscle cars, and everything else they despised.A lot has happened since, including the release of the Dodge Demon 170 and the Tesla Model S Plaid, so seeing these two roughly 1,000-horsepower speed machines go up against each other in the quarter mile is an interesting measure of where things are today. After all, EVs and in particular Teslas are much more popular and accepted than they were several years ago. We see them on racetracks more frequently, too. And while the Demon 170 is more than a respectable machine, the Dodge brand has entirely ditched the Hemi V8 in favor of a straight-six and electrification. Wrapped up in all this are plenty of emotions people have about traditional muscle cars, Elon Musk, new technology, etc. In other words, even after they watch the DragTimes video where these two race three times on the dragstrip, we expect there to be many disagreements. Part of what will be controversial is the fact the Demon 170 takes actual skill to race. Unlike with the Tesla, you don't just line up at the tree and just launch virtually perfectly every time. When the Dodge hooks up properly, it launches hard and can, under the right conditions, run in the 8s. But flub the launch and the Demon 170 will run like a 9.7. That's still an incredible time for a bone stock muscle car, but the Plaid will consistently run around 9.25. We don't want to ruin what happens in the video, but this is a factor. One area where the Dodge wins hands down is overall fun. The Mopar muscle car pops a wheelie every time off the line, which is just cool. Being an all-wheel-drive vehicle, the Tesla is very well-mannered when it launches, which honestly is boring. Now watch the video and see what you think of the race results. Image via DragTimes/YouTube
