{"id":78687,"date":"2026-08-25T12:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/78687\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T12:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:58:12","slug":"what-the-porsche-918-spyder-and-chevrolet-corvette-zr1x-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/78687\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Porsche 918 Spyder and Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X Have in Common"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Carrera GT was Porsche\u2019s first production road car with carbon-fiber construction. Porsche kept the carbon fiber and many of the styling cues for the follow-up 918 Spyder<\/a> but went high-tech with the powertrain instead of merely making it more potent. Granted, the 918 is quicker, lopping more than a second off the Carrera GT\u2019s 0\u201360-mph and quarter-mile times. All the extra oomph comes from the electric motors, as the 918\u2019s 4.6-liter V-8 is less powerful than the 5.7-liter V-10 in the Carrera GT<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story originally appeared in Volume 36 of Road & Track.<\/p>\n

The 918 was one of a defining trio of hybrid hypercars circa 2013, the other two being the Ferrari LaFerrari and the McLaren P1. Like the McLaren, the Porsche is a plug-in, but it is the only one with a motor on the front axle. Hybridization, plugging in, and all-wheel drive have since become common in supercars. Like the 918, many have electrified front axles, albeit using two motors: Acura\u2019s second-\u00adgeneration NSX<\/a>; the Aston Martin Valhalla; the Czinger 21C; Ferrari\u2019s SF90 Stradale, 849 Testarossa, and F80; Lamborghini\u2019s Revuelto and Temerario<\/a>; the upcoming Bugatti Tourbillon. Plus, of course, with a single front motor, there\u2019s the Corvette Grand Sport X and ZR1X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Because all the latest Corvette model variants were conceived and approved during the C8\u2019s early planning process, the ZR1X is a straight\u00adforwardly engineered 1250-hp giant killer. The rear of the car is standard ZR1, and the LT7 twin-turbo V-8 shares its architecture with the Z06\u2019s naturally aspirated LT6. The electric motor up front is borrowed from the outgoing E-Ray, but its output is bumped up to 186 hp via new software and upgraded internal components. Chevy engineers also extended the e-motor\u2019s cutoff speed another 10 mph to 160, so it\u2019s fully contributing to the ZR1X\u2019s quarter-mile performance of 9.2 seconds at 155 mph.<\/p>\n

A companion upgrade is larger brakes, \u00adstandard on the ZR1X and now optional on the ZR1. The carbon-\u00adceramic discs are 16.5 inches at all four corners, versus the ZR1\u2019s standard 15.7-inch fronts and 15.4-inch rears. As a \u201926 model, the ZR1X also gets the updated Corvette interior and the latest Performance Traction Management system, which adds a Pro mode at the highest level. Pro removes all driver assistance except the antilock-braking system and, in the hybrid Vettes, still uses the front-axle motor as a stability aid.<\/p>\n

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Executive Editor Mike Austin has worked as a writer, editor, and occasional video host across titles such as Car and Driver, Autoblog, Popular Mechanics, and Hemmings (plus a few more). Prior to joining Road & Track he finally put his engineering degrees to use as an EV analyst. His personal cars skew slightly oddball, including a 1991 Honda Beat, 2001 Volkswagen Eurovan, 1987 Alfa Romeo Spider, and 2007 Saab 9-3 wagon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"illustration by john lawson The Carrera GT was Porsche\u2019s first production road car with carbon-fiber construction. Porsche kept…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21181],"tags":[46685,46686,22787,27969,57659,24254,15298,21042,8406,57658,39588],"class_list":["post-78687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-porsche","tag-collection-from-the-magazine","tag-collection-rt-exclusives","tag-collection-spotlight","tag-content-type-feature","tag-contentid-2e940e04-94b8-44bb-a60a-1e621655a4c5","tag-displaytype-long-form-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-porsche","tag-shorttitle-what-the-918-and-zr1x-have-in-common","tag-sponsored-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}