A $221,095 Corvette ZR1 Is Parked at the Exit of Test Track, and Its Window Sticker Scores It 2 Out of 10 on Both EPA Ratings
Walk off Test Track at EPCOT, past the mural of the retro-futuristic city, and there is now a silver supercar sitting in a circular display under the Corvette wordmark. It is a 2026 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Coupe 3LZ, and the placard on a stand beside it is the most interesting thing in the room.
The sticker says the car costs $221,095. It also says it gets 14 miles per gallon.
What the window sticker says: standard vehicle price $191,400, options $27,700, total vehicle and options $219,100, destination charge $1,995, total vehicle price $221,095.
The options list is where the money went. The ZR1 Carbon Fiber Aero Package is $10,495 on its own, and it is the reason this car has dive planes, a tall hood spoiler and a carbon fiber high wing spoiler. The carbon fiber front splitter, rocker panels and roof are listed in the standard equipment block on the left of the sticker instead. Carbon Fiber Interior Trim Level 2 adds $4,995. The ZTK Performance Track Package adds $4,395. A front lift system with adjustable height memory, which raises the nose to clear driveways and speed bumps, is $2,595.
Then there are the small ones that are pure taste: $1,495 for the 20 spoke Carbon Flash forged aluminum wheels, $1,195 for the asymmetrical Edge Red and Carbon Flash full length dual racing stripe, $695 for bright red painted brake calipers, $595 for the Stealth Interior Trim Package, $495 for Torch Red seat belts, $495 for Adrenaline Red custom leather stitching, and $250 for the mixed seat pairing, a Competition Sport bucket on the driver's side and a GT2 bucket on the passenger's side.
The part nobody puts in the brochure. The EPA panel on the same sticker rates the car at 14 MPG combined, 12 city and 18 highway, or 7.1 gallons per 100 miles. Estimated annual fuel cost is $4,450. In the box on the right it says you spend $13,750 more in fuel costs over five years compared to the average new vehicle. There is a $3,000 gas guzzler tax. On the two 1 to 10 scales at the bottom, the Fuel Economy and Greenhouse Gas Rating and the Smog Rating, the marker sits on 2 for both. The Government 5 Star Safety Ratings panel carries no stars at all, just a printed line saying the vehicle has not been rated by the government for overall vehicle score, frontal crash, side crash or rollover risk.
None of that is a scandal. It is what a 1,064 horsepower twin-turbocharged 5.5 liter V8 does. It is just a slightly funny thing to find on a placard in the post-show of a ride about vehicle design and testing.
The numbers on the good side of the ledger: the car is mid-engine, that LT7 V8 runs through an eight speed dual clutch, and it makes 1,064 horsepower along with 828 pound-feet of torque. No production Corvette has ever carried a more powerful engine, and Chevrolet calls it the most powerful V8 an American automaker has produced for a production vehicle. Chevrolet also quotes 2.3 seconds to 60 mph for a properly equipped car, a 9.6 second quarter mile finishing at 150 mph, and a 233 mph top speed for a ZR1 on standard aerodynamics, averaged over runs in both directions and recorded in Germany.
Flip the placard over and there are lap times
The reverse of the display placard is headed TRACK RECORDS, and it lists six of them with the driver named for each. Watkins Glen Long Course, 1:52.7, driver Bill Wise. Road America, 2:08.6, driver Brian Wallace. Road Atlanta, 1:22.8, driver Chris Barber. Virginia International Raceway Full Course, 1:47.7, driver Aaron Link. Virginia International Raceway Grand Course, 2:32.3, driver Aaron Link. And the Nürburgring, 6:50.76, driver Brian Wallace.
Worth being precise about what that panel is claiming: those are times for the ZR1 model, not for this specific car sitting on the showroom floor at EPCOT. This one shares the powertrain and the ZTK Performance Track Package with the record configurations, which makes it a close relative of the cars that set those times, not one of them.
You can start buying it. You cannot finish.
The showcase is not a dealership. General Motors product specialists staff the showcase and will field questions about the cars on display. A guest who genuinely wants one can start the buying process on the spot, but nothing closes there: the sale and the handover run through an authorized dealer instead, not the post-show of a theme park ride.
This showroom is the one that arrived with the latest version of Test Track, which reopened to guests on July 22, 2025. That reimagining moved the attraction back to General Motors sponsorship after a version presented specifically by Chevrolet, which is why the showcase now presents current GM vehicles rather than Chevrolets alone.
If you are heading to EPCOT this week and you want to see it, the showcase sits on the walking path out of the ride, so seeing it takes nothing more than slowing down on the way to the exit.
Sources
Fuel economy, gas guzzler tax, EPA rating, options pricing, track record times and driver names in this story were read directly from the window sticker and display placard photographed in the showcase, shown above.
Image credits: All photos by WDW News Today.
