Video: Motor Trend pits ZR1 against 911 Turbo with surprising results

One is an American-bred land rocket and the other a Teutonic track terror. They are the 2011 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 and 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo, and Motor Trend has pitted them head-to-head.

Former Autoblog scribe and known flip-flop aficionado Jonny Lieberman provides the voice work and the words for the buff book's latest supercar comparo, with Herr Lieberman calling the 911 Turbo "the fastest manual transmission car we've ever tested." Acceleration is one thing, but what about sex appeal? According to Jonny, "... both cars were alternately parked in front of my house for two weeks, but I discovered pink lipstick marks only on the Corvette's windshield. That's right, someone kissed the ZR1."

We have video of both cars running side-by-side for 1,320 feet and the winner is not much of a surprise. The overall winner of the comparison? Well, that's another story, and the results may surprise you

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Is that the new porsche turbo with the 500 hp?

 

^^^^^ sorry stupid post....I guess I should have watched it first!!

 

Gosh is that Porsche fast!!!!

 

white porsche> red zr1

le mans blue zr1>white porsche

 

probably has a lot to do with awd i think

 

Yep...awd = more traction. Now if GM were to make a vette in awd

 

Then it might only get lightly spanked by the forthcoming Turbo S???

 

Pretty interesting how the all wheel drive make the Porsche take off and maintain a pretty substantial advantage from a stop light to stop light perspective, but the added weight absolutely kills it on the big track at Willow Springs.

A minute 30+ time isn't terrifically special for the big track. Sub 1:30 is doing pretty well for a street legal machine. I think it's really interesting they went faster with the driver aid too. There have been quite a few arguments about this in the Corvette crowd.

 

The ZR1 easily outperformed the Turbo on the track by a significant margin.

But the Turbo did have some amazing numbers on paper [drag strip]. I wasn't expect an 125mph trap speed with that kind of power/weight.