That lasted until 2019 and the C7 ZR1, a car we would argue is the baddest Corvette on the road today. The 755-hp blown 6.2-liter LT5, a now-discontinued engine made exclusively for the C7 ZR1 ...

The C7 Corvette ZR1 didn't just dethrone the Z06 from the seventh-generation lineup; it danced around it in a thick fog of tire smoke. For the first and only time in the Corvette's tenure ...

The battle is clearly mismatched – the orange-and-black C7 ZR1 is a proper supercar with a new-at-the-time 6.2-liter pushrod LT5 V8 engine equipped with a 2.6-liter Eaton supercharger.

However, before the C8 Corvette ZR1 arrived with its 1,064 hp twin-turbocharged LT7 5.5-liter V8 engine, the C7 ZR1 garnered ...