Then I came to a stop sign, turned the two-mode damper switch from Tour to Sport and initiated the gas-depletion sequence. A huge wave of torque picked the car up and hurtled it forward in a confusion of g-forces and noise. This is a church-organ V-8 -- heavy, ground-shaking lows run all the way up to hard, tremulous highs. And unlike most supercharged cars, the ZR1 doesn't run out of steam at elevated revs. What it does run out of is road. Any kind of road. Nothing this powerful has ever been this composed over chewed-up pavement. Because of its magneto-rheological dampers -- their internal fluid instantaneously firms up or relaxes according to road conditions -- the ZR1 won't squat or lean or bobble around. It scoffs at broken concrete, files its nails on rumble strips. Its seductive combination of stability, grip and body control urges you to go faster.
Then I came to a stop sign, turned the two-mode damper switch from Tour to Sport and initiated the gas-depletion sequence. A huge wave of torque picked the car up and hurtled it forward in a confusion of g-forces and noise. This is a church-organ V-8 -- heavy, ground-shaking lows run all the way up to hard, tremulous highs. And unlike most supercharged cars, the ZR1 doesn't run out of steam at elevated revs.
What it does run out of is road. Any kind of road. Nothing this powerful has ever been this composed over chewed-up pavement. Because of its magneto-rheological dampers -- their internal fluid instantaneously firms up or relaxes according to road conditions -- the ZR1 won't squat or lean or bobble around. It scoffs at broken concrete, files its nails on rumble strips. Its seductive combination of stability, grip and body control urges you to go faster.
Sigh. [America.Is.Doomed.] Now where are we going and what's with the handbasket?
It gets 20 m.p.g. on the highway.
[Deep, deep, sigh]
or, more to the point given the purpose of the car - at what acceleration rates? In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
