[VIDEO] C7 Z06 Battles a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat for Quarter Mile Supremacy - Corvette: Sales, News & Lifestyle (2024)

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Which is faster, the C7 Corvette or the Hellcat? ›

The result is 11.492 seconds for the Hellcat and 11.504 for the 'Vette. That's a margin of 12 thousandths of a second, but it's enough for the Challenger to clock a win.

The Z06 is a road-course car, not a drag racer. But its performance here proved that it's game to trip the beam at your nearest staging lights, cracking off an 11.3-second quarter-mile.

The Z06 emerges as a convincing winner in the first of the four eventual runs, posting a time of 11.24 seconds @ 123.94 mph to best the Hellcat's mark of 11.59 @ 122.76 mph.

Power continues to pour on hard as the engine quickly hits its 8,600 RPM redline, and gear changes happen often. The sound inside the cabin in intense, and when the ¼-mile came to an end in 10.7-seconds at 130 miles-per-hour, it felt like it was just getting started.

Firstly, the C8's best lap tie was 0.9 second faster than the C7, with the vehicles managing bests of 126.1 seconds and 127 seconds respectively. In addition, Car and Driver testers noted that the C8 was able to brake later and accelerate faster in and out of turns.

This engine featured direct fuel injection, variable valve timing, and forced induction via an Eaton R1740 TVS supercharger. The result was a powerplant capable of propelling the Z06 from 0-60 mph in just 2.95 seconds and achieving a top speed of 186 mph.

The 'H1000' Chevrolet Corvette C7 ZR1, upgraded to 1000 HP by Hennessey Performance, is an exciting and thrilling demonstration of power and speed. In the above video, Hennessey drag races the 1000 HP Corvette C7 ZR1 1/4 mile to prove its capability. The 2019 Chevrolet Corvette C7 ZR1 1/4 mile time was set at 9.52 sec.

The Dodge Challenger Demon is faster than the Hellcat by a massive margin.

It will run wide if the driver tries to dive-bomb into a corner on the brakes or with the throttle closed, but the attitude can be converted to neutrality and then to progressive oversteer with power. The Z06 is 2.1 seconds faster per lap than the Z51 but is hairy at the limit.

Are Hellcats faster than police cars? ›

But if you are going to give police a chase, the best thing you can do is have a car which is way faster than theirs. That was exactly the situation when a guy in a Dodge Charger Hellcat Widebody took off on Little Rock police in Arkansas recently.

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Fuel & MPG

222.0/388.5 mi. 18.5 gal.

Chevrolet claims the Z06 sprinted through the benchmark 0-to-60-mph measure in just 2.95 seconds and that it annihilated the quarter-mile in an equally impressive 10.95 at 127 mph. Those who opt for the seven-speed manual transmission will have to be content with claimed 3.2- and 11.2-second (also at 127 mph) times.

Other changes include an active exhaust system and an upgraded crankshaft, all of which help propel the car to a top speed of 214.88 mph (345.82 km/h) with the low rear wing.

It only took the Corvette 12.77 seconds to complete the quarter-mile, crossing the finish line at 116.21 miles per hour (187.02 kilometers per hour). However, the Dodge was a bit quicker, completing the quarter-mile race in 12.43 seconds at 118.78 mph (191.16 kph).

The 755-hp blown 6.2-liter LT5, a now-discontinued engine made exclusively for the C7 ZR1, is the most powerful engine ever offered in a Corvette, with more horsepower and a lot more torque than even the upcoming C8 Z06 with its LT6.