SPOTTED: Black ZR1 in Reading by the station
Discussion
BLUETHUNDER said:
Whats the different in specs of these over a standard C4?.Awaits to be educated.
Main point was the Lotus designed overhead cam engine (built by Mercury Marine of all people) producing something in the region of 375bhp compared with 250 bhp from the base C4 model. Seriously quick car in 1990, delivering roughly the same performance as the clean sheet design C5 Corvette which was not introduced until 1997. The ZR-1 is much loved in the Corvette collector market although it would be a leap of faith for a novice to buy one without knowing exactly where it had been....Despite astounding performance the snag was that ZR-1 cost double the price of a base C4 Corvette and Chevrolet went on improving the base car with a 300 bhp engine and adopting much of the ZR-1s initially unique "look". Sales were good for a couple of years and then tailed off rapidly.
Upmarket Corvettes have tended to come as standard with savage depreciation so early owners took a bath with the relatively exotic engine unsettling many prospective buyers in the used market. It will be surprising if the ZR1 model currently being launched (again double the cost of a base 430 bhp C6) does not suffer a similar fate.
Awesome cars!
MrVelox said:
Easy way to tell that it's really a ZR-1 from a glance... it has the third brake light on the roof, not integrated into the rear bumper.
Yes provided it has the convex rear bumper. Earlier non-ZR1 C4s, like my 1990 L98, had a roof-mounted brake light, but it had the angled, concave rear bumper.vetteheadracer said:
It was probably one of the Basingstoke Taxi Mafia collecting a fair
Deffo not me.Another visual difference between a ZR-1 and Factory C4 - the rear was 3" wider from the doors back, plus under the rears you will find 11"s of tyre either side.
By the way I think it's 'ZR-1' for the 90 - 95 model, and it looks like ZR1 for the newer model designation.
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