I drove one back in `97 or `98, it felt like being strapped to a Titan rocket. While it would "only" do 0-60 in 4.5s, with a perfect launch, that was insane at the time. Also, it handled as well as the best Europe had to offer.

Love my 94 ZR-1. Bone stock 12.4@114.6 mph on dry rotted gscs. Picked up a brand new 2015 mustang GT pp and ran them and the mustang was killed easily (best of 12.7@ 112.8mph). Few mods, long tube headers, deleted secondary throttle system, light flywheel and a corsa cat back with a tune (mostly to adjust for deleted sscondary throttle system) and she went 11.9 @121mph and put a co workers 2016 gt350 in the rear view at lunch time 😎. I’ve had my 93 Lt1 (has a 370ci solid roller LT4 making 630hp and spinning 8500rpm) for 23 years and the ZR-1 was my dream car. I have both now and am happy the world is seeing how amazing this car truly is and it’s potential with minor modifications to be even better. There have been stroker LT5s making over 800hp na and spinning 9000rpm. The ZR-1 came and went pre social media and pre fast n furious and that’s why it disappeared from memory. The newer generations grew up influenced by fast n furious and instead got certified for driving 💩 📦 with 🤡 mods. 99/100 kids have no clue what a c4 ZR-1 is and I’m fine with it. This car destroyed the Supra, 300zx, 3000gtvr-4, nsx, rx7, 911 turbo and many other cars in its time. Sure the f40 was a body kit bolted to wheels with a big turbo and got 4 mpg. The ZR-1 can gst 30mpg in 6th. King of the hill. Long love the king 👑 🙌🏼

Ya know your older when you remember all these "retro" reviews when they were first aired.

I remember back in the day you could tell from a block away if a pony car was a V8 OR A RENTAL V6 VERSION. Cars were so distinctive. 5.0s only came with fat wheels ... IROC Zs you could tell from a mile away just by looks and sound! BUT the CORVETTE... that C4 was drop dead Gorgeous without spoilers, fins, or fake air vents! Its just a different time now.

I live for these Retro Reviews! Thank you Motorweek for the nostalgia!

AMAZING to realize; within 26 years we are double the amount of generations (c4 to c8). Been then again when gen c3 to c4 take up almost 30 years of model years; '68-'82 & '84-'96.

I remember thinking a low 5 to a high 4 second 0-60 was about as fast as a car could ever get.

For the “how times have changed” crowd, consider the fact that this car still holds multiple FIA World Land Speed Endurance records that to this day have yet to be eclipsed by another production car.

From a euro’s perspective this was peak corvette- brutal engine, iconic design, with sorted suspension. Love it.

I’m lucky enough to own a 91 ZR-1. I’ve had it 11 years. Still puts a smile on my face every time I drive it. It’s still awesome even by today’s standards. If you ever get the chance to drive one, don’t pass it up.

I love the C4. Really great design.

I own a 95 ZR-1 and boy its one hell of a car! It handles flat with plenty of power from the LT-5. I could only imagine having a stage 1 or 2 Marc Haibeck engine upgrade kit installed! Don't sleep on the C4 ZR-1, if you want one buy one now before you loose your chance!

Thank you for locating and sharing the GM footage. It is always interesting to see. I would like to see the 1994 Oldsmobile LSS uploaded some day. I saw it on the Motorweek marathon over Labor Day.

Still better looking than the C8.

Actually , this car was capable of a 4.2 second 0-60 on a decent road with sport tires.

It was one of the moments when Corvette really took on the world and surprised a number of competitors as well.

It's weird that the c4 overall is seen as the bad corvette....but these reviews prove that just like all other corvettes it was extremely competitive for its time

THIS...is the Vette i grew up with. Long nose, four round taillights, pop-up headlights Makes me sad that the C8 bears little resemblance to Corvette except the name

I have that exact blue ZR-1 as a 1991 model with both the original wheels and the later 5 spoke design... Makes sweet music... Fun!

Best modern Corvette! Ever! Long live the King!

I'm no C4 guy, but oh boy am I in love with this car. I met this owner of a 1994 model, and it was a red one with the words ZR-1 over half the hood. Sweet looking thing. Around 420 horsepower too. In hindsight it's great how much the model evolved, from the 2008 with 630 hp to the 2017 with over 750. I wonder what the next ZR1 is gonna be like.

Awesome👍'90s was my era, playing NFS games on my first PC (Pentium 400, 1GB HDD, 128MB RAM and 32MB nVidia Riva TNT). There's nothing like low-res highlight reel style car footage from that time, it made all those NFS cars (including the C4 ZR-1) my lifelong dream cars.

Most underrated car ever 👍🏻🇺🇸

I love the dirty with brake dust work duty wheels and burn offs in the rear!

The zr1 Corvette from the 90s always be a special Corvette in my life i am born 2 years after the zr1 its gone from 1995 year and return ok 2009 and 2019

absolut in love with this car

Bro this was the definition of American power and innovation😎

if you had one of these you basically didn't have to worry about getting beat by anything unless you encountered a Diablo, F50, EB110, XJ220 or F1.... Basically six figure exotics were the only things you really had to worry about.

These are a gem, I still want one

In 1990, Car and Driver instrument tested a 1990 ZR1 - 375 HP at 12.8 1/4 mile and 4.2 0-60. The 94-95s were a little heavier than the early cars but also got a bump in hp to 405. On a chilly late fall day, a friend of mine ripped off a 11.9 1/4 mile in his 95 ZR1 at Atco in New Jersey. The car was bone stock. He had drag radials on. These numbers may seem mundane by today’s standards but in the mid-to-late 90s these cars were hard to beat on any track. I tussled with the GNXs at the drag strip and they were fast. Especially the ones that had the boost turned up and were tuned. Still wish I had my ZR-1. Great cars

I owned a 1994 corvette, LT1 with Auto. It ran a 13.8 bone stock. I raced a ZR-1 ( 1993 I think ) and he was a low 13 second. I didn't realize how slow MotorWeek drivers were until recently when all their tests were slower than the same cars I have had over the years. My race was in the summer in South Carolina, and I ran with the AC on.

Any missing C4 and C5 reviews needs to go up ASAP!

my favorite Corvette -Viper fan

The successor came over 20 years later with an additional 350 hp, LOL😎

Thank you for more premium GM uploads!! ❤️❤️ Please keep them coming! I love my ‘90 ZR-1 and ‘84 Trans Am!

I love these Motorweek videos. With manual shift cars in these videos, it’s as if the guy in the drivers seat is trying to break the shifter demonstrating rowing it through the gears.

That car was considered super fast back in 95.

Those wheels and that vibrant red color make the zr1 look so freaking amazingly beautiful and bad ass at the same time!!!

Wow 70k corvette in the early 90s, that 130k in today’s money

Love my 1995 ZR-1 . Still beats lots of cars of today .

It's an amazing machine my friend had it beautiful fast and reliable and it's a bit quicker on the quarter mile than 13.7 😎

The best Corvette ever made

I'm salivating. It would be like dying and going to heaven if I could get my hands on one of these.

I love Retro Reviews Motor Week, my favorite, Corvette C4 is my favorite

This reminds me that I have a cam from an 2008 zr1 that I swapped into my pontiac g8 whenever I did my DOD delete. Nice power adder with smooth idle.

Outstanding Upload!! Been waiting on this one!!

Would would be driving this over a 2021 corvette

This car in perfect conditions would do 0-60 and 1/4 mile times almost a full second faster.

The 1995 Corvette ZR-1… the coolest/fastest car at my high school until I was a senior. 😎

the mighty king of the hill, these absolutely trounced their contemporaries from ferrari etc.

Why am I seeing a Corvette but thinking of Janet Jackson?

I Remember in 1995 The ZR1 Every test Car & Driver/Road and Track (its Child's Play) to go 0 to 60 in the 5 second Range all day long, Only Top Speed main Performance gain from the LT1 165 vs 180+

Was an old ass car at this point but still a 400hp domestic car. Magic

The only DOHC Corvette! Love it! I'd love to make a Buck Blader style body kit on this thing!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I STILL LOVE THE ZR1!!!!

When this car came out, we car nuts literally thought it was the end of any talk of competition from anyone else. Such accessible performance for budget(relative) dollars. That LT5 was such a smooth engine(Mercury Marine balance shafts and other bits from Lotus paid off). Totally transformed the C4. Amazingly the squeezed that type of everyday power in the early 90s yet we have a 6.2L V8 with supercomputers and direct fuel injection putting out "only" 495hp. And looking at Barrett Jackson, these C4 ZR1s and Grand Sports are shooting through the roof on value.

In gradeschool Frankie Ramacitti said it could smoke the tires in sixth gear…… till this day I still believe it 😂 the legend lives on

The c4 is just so different from any other vette. Never was one of my favorites but way better look than the c5

The last DOHC 32 valve Corvette ZR-1.

That Ravishing Rick Rude theme for the extra win.

My buddy in his 16 mustang gt gave me a headtstart when we raced. Was mad as hell cause he couldn’t catch me 😀 91’zr1 for Life!

I love retro reviews

These things have been tested at 0 to 60 in 4.3 seconds and a quarter mile in the 12.8 second range. And that was the earlier 375 horse car.

Lt5 @ 7000 rpms..... eargasm!

The numbers on this car are impressive even for 30 years ago

Well, with the prices of those years, the new Corvette looks like a really good deal !!!

Im 17 and this is my dream car currently driving a 2013 dodge charger i will have it.

Those times are slow, my 1999 Camaro Z28, automatic, 3.23 geared with the LS1(305 factory hp lol) ran a quicker quarter mile(13.5@105). Granted that was on a well prepped track, but Motorweek always seems to get slow numbers out of their cars, especially manuals. Only mods on my car were a magnaflow muffler and a modded airbox.

Yesss finally the c4 zr1 retro review v

I like that Def Leppard Style music in the background.

As a mustang man, the ZR-1 is my favorite car of all time.

The Plastic Fantastic...

Crazy to think the Civic Type R has the same Performance specs on 0-60 and 1/4 mile

I would sure love to own a zr1 but I’m more then happy to own a 1992-1996 corvette with the stock 5.7 LT1, to me the stock 300hp is more then enough and in fact 300hp is a perfect balance of power……

This hero car was on my wall when I was a kid. Now I have a loser V6 camry in the garage with the same 0-60. How times change.

Liking this for obvious reasons.

Chevrolet needed 14 years to bring back the ZR1, and what a car it was, the C7 ZR1 failed to achieve the same levels of excitement that the 2009 C6 ZR1 achieved.

The only thing that ever bothered me about MotorWeek was the lack of engine sound. Even with the volume turned up, you could barely hear what the car sounded like.

What amazing car

WCW Simply Ravishing

I own a '91 and it really is a special car.

It's weird that so called Corvette enthusiasts trash the C4's but in mid 1983, the new C4 was mind boggling. Anywhere you saw one, they drew crowds so the owners were forced life up the clamshell hood and do a tour of the (expensive to manufacture) forged suspension and Bilstein shocks, show off the amazing f-14 tomcat inspired interior with the digital gauges. Nothing like it was ever seen at that time. Imagine the cost today to cast and machine a TPI intake or using forged aluminum in all of the suspension bits? No gimmick clean and sleek design by Jerry Palmer with the body wrapping over and under the frame to get the car as low to the road as possible. Wheelbase is a tidy 96" , a sports car sweet spot. The Delco-Bose radio was actually designed and engineered by Bose engineers who integrated their real Bose technology into the car actually using the original Bose 901 speakers with amps at each corner. Not some badge job we see today on an otherwise factory radio unit. 100 percent Undefeated in SCAA showroom stock for over 3 years. The base L-98 delivered right now power, amplified low end torque due to the long runner TPI setup that made quick work of short course tracks heralding the dawn of a new performance era we enjoy to this day. And all of this came well before the otherwise awesome ZR-1 hit the scene. So thank the C4, it inspired a new generation of Corvette owners, it was a no holds barred design showed GM (and the rest of the world) that there s still a market for a US made sports car with a V8 engine as god intended. Much respect to the C4. 👌

I wonder if that's the one the Corvette museum has. Iirc they have a red on red 95 ZR1. It would make sense if this was a press car.

i missed this life

IMagine one with a whipple blower. When I test drove my 90 with 4.10s I thought this is how all stock C4s should feel. Tough time for hp

i'd recognize that manhandling of the shifter anywhere!

Long live the 427 king=C6Z06 The purest vision of corvette ever built

I was so disappointed in 1995 when I found out the ZR-1 was being discontinued. But then in 2004 when Chevy reintroduced the ZR-1 for the 2005 model year, I was thrilled.

1:55 yeah it won’t be “one of the world’s best gear changers” once this klutz is done fucking with it!

The srt of the day

5.1 seconds is really impressive for a 90's gm car

Couple these old motorweek with old Dupont registry magazines, that would be rad.

1/4 mile numbers are wayyyy off. This car would run 12's @ north of 110 mph all day.

Poor performance numbers compared to the car's real capabilities. Factory stock cars generally ran the 1/4 in 12.9 to 13.0 at 110 mph. O to 60 in about 4.6 seconds. Slow by today's standards but world class back in the day. With relatively simple engine upgrades, many of these cars now make 500 to 600 HP with some even higher without any boost.

Some put in print slower times so new owners didnt cry foul to GM when a new Z owner could barely crack a 13 learning to launch his. THeres a reason for everything peeps. Gm aint stupid

Like how it's slower than previous years

Motorweek could launch this zr1 faster.

13.7 et! Bs I saw one bone stock go 13.00 @112 years ago.

Like all your videos

Dang these Motor Week drivers need to learn how to drive.. 0-60 5.1 and 1/4mi 13.7 @ 108?? A base C4 LT1 Vette will do that.. a ZR-1 should be more like 0-60 4.3-4.5 and 1/4mi 12.7-12.9 @ 111-113 MPH.