Callaway Twin Turbo C4 Corvette & 1990 ZR-1 | Retro Review

The all new 2020 C8 Corvette is cool and all, but not Callaway Twin Turbo cool.

[asdfghjqwertyu]

1990 is already 3 decades ago... I'm old.

[xXBurntBaconXx]

Oh Man that ZR1 was a monster back in the day. Those numbers are what my 2011 Mustang puts down. 30 years old and still putting down impressive times.

[gmoroder]

I really like how simple these videos are. Little to no music, flash, it's just the car and about it. Very nice and comforting

[superduty]

That Callaway was a fuggin' HAMMER when it came out.

[crazyeyez]

And i just watched an 'up to speed' video on Callaway.... ⚡⚡⚡

[bghoody]

I remember all the hubbub being made about the ZR1 when it came out - the all aluminum engine designed by Lotus and built by Mercury Marine, the wider rear tires and of course the square tail lights.

[gdlkinbi]

Wow, the Callaway Corvette at 3:33 looked so much like a Ferrari F40 with all the slots and rim style.
In that red colour both gave me a bone from early teen years the moment I saw them.
Damn it cars were hot back then !

[theeducatedredneck]

12 second cars were very fast in 1990, young people watching this will not appreciate these cars because of whats available today. My '89 Firebird Formula 350 was turning low 14's when new and that was fast back then.

[mightyjack]

Thanks, guys. I was waiting for this to be uploaded, one of my favorite episodes :)

[iant]

12’s !? That’s fast!! Also I appreciate the higher Fran rate of this video

[bonosimic]

these performance numbers are still by today's standards very impressive and rank up high up with modern contemporary sportscars.

[mperez]

As a child, this car was my ferrari f40...it was massively important back then.

[bradpittman]

I miss tuners like callaway. Although it must have had disco potatoes or have been running on only a couple pounds of boost. Very cool thought with the turbos. V8 plus turbos is always awesome.

[WLAs_Finestx]

Damn! 390 hp and 570 lbs.ft of torque is the way the L98 should have been designed and left the factory! Nowadays, 390 hp is easily achieved on a Chevy 350 5.7 without forced induction, but this Callaway Corvette is hella motivation!

[jGRite]

I like to imagine how much faster the twin turbo would be with the turbos of today.

[xXcashXx]

Crazy you can still buy 2 corvettes for the price of one ferrari and still have alot left over today

[garyshropshire]

I was there for this test. I was the production manager at Callaway at the time. We set the 1/4 time, and the GM engineers tried for an hour to get their car to beat it. ( we just sat there and watched them scratch their heads. and figure out why). Was so

[frontxxrunner]

Finally, he's saying "Testarossa" normally, and not pretending to have an Italian accent.

[moparbro]

dam and I thought a 1996 LT4 was cool!

[oneslackr]

Both cars put up good performance numbers for the time & the figures are still decent almost 30 years later. Though I never cared for the Callaway even back in '90. I just didn't like the way it looked. But I definitely liked the ZR-1 (i.e. King of the Hill) at the time.