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  • Made in Usa................

  • I wish i had that kind of money to just go to barrett jackson and clean the place out

  • Fucking idiot lmao!! He bought it for the same price as a Bugatti! ;)

  • Ok the Money mostly goes to a great Cause like the United Way but, it just makes me sad to see a Guy dropping $1 million on a Car just like it's a Scratch n Win ticket. Yes, I am jealous and yet even tho I'd trade places with the Buyer in a Heartbeat, I don't believe he really loves hot Cars. Like someone already said, it's just a Status thing for People like him. I'll bet he never even drives 1/2 of the Vehicles he has stashed in some Warehouse. Just my Opinion. For what it's worth!

  • Wait... Didn't jay leno own this car? His cars vin number was 0001.... Did he buy it off the original winner?

  • Because when you got that much money its all about status my friends

  • 1,000,000 FRICKEN BUCKS???? WHY NOT WAIT A YEAR AND PAY ONLY 100,000 BUCKS?

  • @2012CamaroZL1IsEpic He could have just paid 82 grand for it. I bet the guy that bought it is shouting SHIT right now. And WOO HOO JAY LENO!!!

    Get that man on Top Gear America!

  • @Riles07 I think I speak for almost everyone here when I say no one gives a shit this car is a badass and for most normal people the better choice

  • European cars: BEAUTIFUL, FAST, LOUD, EXPENSIVE

    Corvette: GOOD LOOKING, FAST,LOUD,CHEAP

  • they shoulda just painted the carbon fiber with that billion dollar a gallon paint

  • because the price of this car is going to charity, he can write it off for income tax. So don't be TOO impressed here folks. Always an angle. Its going to take a while for this to appreciate too I expect.

  • @Riles07 charity? So what. The car sold for $1M. Dont think he really cares about a write off. Nice try.

  • @13tomabram Fuck whatever man I was probably high when I wrote that. You're right, he likely doesn't give a shit, but when it comes down to tax time, I just bet this car will be in his statements as an expense/charity.

  • The Ultimate Car

  • This one should be serial #000001!!!

  • I thought Jay had the first zR1??

  • @art78570

    Jay didn't get the 1st "RETAIL" ZR1. He received serial # 00001, which was NOT available for retail to the general public.

  • 8:05

    hababablba blah 900

    habalahblahababalah

    hababla One million dollors

  • does the zr1 come with auto tranny

    and does a zo6 come with a auto tranny

  • No, neither the ZR1 or the ZO6 are built with an automatic transmission.

  • thanx now if they were would they be faster or slower and y we are havind a debate about the two here at work and some say any car with less than 450hp would be faster standard and any thing over that the motor would be waiting for you to shift making it slower others say if you put a buit auto tranny in any car it will go faster than a standard

  • i went for a ride in zr1 this afternoon and its the coolest car ever...... anyone else been for a ride in one of those yet.... haha probably not... we only hit 130 on the freeway though... and 130 felt pretty slow. i wanted to go 200.

  • sal30 is a goof north american made cars are leading nothing is better then a zr1 so get back in your civic and drive into a river and die

  • Im lucky just to have the hot wheels version of such a car...But it isn't the best Vette in the world. The best is the original.

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  • How stupid and foolish your remarks are.I have driven one and it crushed a guys 430 spyder at our club track day..get a life dickhead....

  • be the first to start the car in the factory. Talking about selling the sizzle.

  • absolutely the sexiest car everrrrrr

  • (to me) 2nd, & I know alittle under 100,000 cars , but the other I just respect

  • what do these guys work in that they can afford to do buy cars for a million dollars

  • carfan, you clearly are a moron. If you think the Nissan GTR is better than a ZR1, I feel sorry for you. Im sure you probably rode the short bus to school before you flunked out.

  • @phitau09 well actually, the ZR1 may be much faster in a straight line due to the fact it has much more horse power, but the Nissan has better gas mileage, better emissions, 2 more seats, far larger trunk space, a better warranty, higher grade materials (aluminum not plastic body panels), AWD so it can actually be driven in the snow as well as superior track performance, a far better fit and finish in the interior, and at the end, the GT-R will also hold far better residual value than the Vette

  • The GT-R has better gas mileage, fewer emissions, cost about $30,000 less, 2 extra seats, more trunk space,better fit and finish in the interior,better warranty, AWD so it can be driven in the snow,corner far superior and have better safety traction, has a higher safety rating,a more comfortable ride, aluminum (not plastic) body panels, better luxury/tech features, less expensive service costs, and far better residual value.

    So ya I'd say the Nissan is almost certainly a vastly superior vehicle

  • @Riles07 What about horsepower? Braking? Top speed? 0-100-0? Comfort is subjective; so are looks. The frame is aluminum, and the body panels are fiberglass or carbon fiber (not plastic). No one should drive a car like this in the snow anyways. Less expensive service costs? Really? GM service is nothing compared to what it's going to cost to fix your all-wheel drive components anyways. Let's race around the Nurburgring tomorrow. Do you still want the GT-R? Didn't think so...

  • @kmv2244 I was ready to rip apart your actually well made argument.However, looking back at my initial comment, I feel the pros I made in regards to GT-R far outweigh the nominations you made in favor of the ZR1.Im going to school in London Ontario and my house mate drives a white 2010 GT-R to and from campus everyday of the school year. The roads are still well plowed and its a damn-sight better in winter than A LOT cars others choose to drive during snow season. He did use snow tires.

  • bang for the buck? hahahahahahahaha

    the GTR is bang for the buck for sure..not this piece of shit

  • zr1- $104000

    gtr- $79000 but demand together with unregulated showroom prices mean the cost of a new gtr ma rise to around$124000.........food for thought performance? have these two cars been compared on a track? plz lemme know

  • @carfan2k2 LOL at you. The ZR1 beats the GTR. Deal with it. It's faster at the Nurburgring, does everything better except launch and won the 24 hours of Lemans.

    Peice of shit? LOL my GF's Nissan is a POS. It actually snapped a cam in two. Yeah, you heard that right: IN TWO. And it's been an unreliable money pit. So much wrong with it that it isn't even funny: tranny, steering, moldings. All junk.

  • @SCROGY to each their own buddy .. to each their own

    you may wipe your shit with your right hand, i do so with my left hand... who cares

  • holy sheeeeit jay leno talks to dang much they need the music they play at the grammys when people talk too long

  • lol he keeps boasting about american technology being the best.

    But whats funny is he makes a point about it having the ferrari enzo breaks.

  • Yeah.. but EVERY production ferrari has electronics designed and manufactured by Delphi. FYI.. Delphi is a GM company.

    The magnetic ride control currently being used by Ferrari was also designed by GM.

    The brakes on the ZR1 are not designed by Ferrari. They are designed by Brembo.. and sold to both Ferrari and GM.

  • Holy hell the paint alone cost $60,000 a gallon.

  • lol no its the clear gloss they used for the carbon fiber hood to keep it from going yellow

  • Thats an outrageous price for a damn clear gloss. With that price it better come with a lifetime free car wash & oil changes.

  • hahah i hear ya man

  • Jay tell 's it like it is ,not saying i would not want a european ..But i would take The Vette

  • my god! so much want! i'll probably only get the C6. : / not near enough money for the zr1.

  • The new ZR1 is a C6

  • I would say this corvette is one of the best looking cars out there.

  • Corvettes are the sexiest cars on the planet. no question

  • crap crap but cheap just like the usa

  • like the condom your mom used when her and your dad were unknowingly conceiving you

  • Because the condoms were made in the USA.

  • I Guess in 40 years ill see very ZR1 again for sale at the same price :D

  • Dont be jealous now.

  • of fat stupid ugly old man bought this baby....poor car. that video really made me feel so bad. i miss those days when performance cars were driven almost only from young peole.

  • the new performance cars are driven by young people,,,, subaru sti's, evos, vr6, svt's,,, ect...

  • i don't mean this man. back in 70s most 20 year old kids were driving Mustangs,Chargers,Cudas,Camaro­s,Vettes,Porsches etc etc. those were the top performance cars in the world (by the standars of that automotive era).many of them were faster than most "supercars" of that era and they were cheap. nowadays the only ones who can own true performance cars are those ugly old men. you know what i mean man?

  • This car is 1 million% bad ass I wish I could aford it

  • i feel u man i wish i could afford it 2,

    but hey dude lets keep hitting them books

    and maybe one day we will

  • Ever heard it's engine rev? I did volenteered for a chevy dealership and that day it first rolled into the shop it shook the whole building it makes a scary sound I'd piss my pants if that ever pulled up beside me on an intersection

  • Jay knows...chevy baby ; )

  • lucky bastard

  • a fucking corvette zr1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thats the best corvette you could ever have setting inside your garage!

  • sledgehammer

  • this was a joke right? i dunno, it's just riceboys arn't too smart...

  • Yes, that was a joke.

  • ok so if he had any sense at all, ( the man who bought it) he would have waited and coudl have gotten it for 115,000. And or all of you people who hate the corvette and prefer foreign sports cars, this one is probably better.

  • if you its the first retailable zr1...they are car collectors that are here buying them...to them its all about numbers...so if you have the first one off the production line it just adds to the value to them

  • jay leno has the #1 corvette ZR1 2009, i watched a video of him showing the serial number 00001

  • he has the Z 06 00001 serial not the ZR1

  • car#00000000001 plus the money was going to a charity and he raised hes only bid so money is nothing  to him......CHARITY!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • American car engineering is so bad and cheap now days. If they had the same taste for the car as they had back in the day the companies whouldnt be on the verge of bankrupcy. The front of the car looks exactly like the deceased Ferrari 360 Modena. I wouldnt pay more than 100k for that piece of crap. Not even Lennno wanted it.

  • what a ripoff. Paid about $975,000 too much. vettes are JUNK.

  • Thats what im talkin bout

  • actually the only ferrari this thing can't beat is the fxx buddy

  • That was stupid.

  • shit a mill would be worth it. everything you get in it. if you put all that together in pieces it would be a hell of alot more. fuck id take it if i had a mill.

  • nice car..doesn't worth it though.. let's be real .

  • it was worth every dollar. true collectors dont care about cost.

  • Honda Civic is faster.

  • Think about what u just typed. A Civic is never faster than a Vette. Dumbass

  • hahaha a civic doesnt have shit on a vette

  • What is so especial about Barrett Jackson?

    Basically they are selling a $100k car for a 10x bigger price. American streets will be FULL of this car under months.

    Another day I saw that they sold a Chevelle for $2mi! I can get a 327 one with $20k.

  • Your dumb.

  • haters...

  • YOU'RE dumber. YOU'RE!

  • streets will never be full of this car. they only made a small number of them. 99% of people cant afford this car

  • Any Civic with a sewer pipe for a muffeler is a joke, much less against this type of Vette. Get real idiot.

  • Oh! I didn't know the production of the ZR1 was limited. I trought it was gonna replace the Z06 for some years.

  • 100,000 will be made anually. lol what a rarity

  • it went for 1mil becasue of the VIN number

  • Did you even listen to the introduction and all the crap you get with the car?

  • Did you Know that to own a ZR1 you need to take a driving class....

  • yeah i work at west world... and i believe it i saw that car... its crazy

  • 1 million wtf??

  • Jay Leano was there?

  • He got ripped off

  • You heard the man,a family member argued the only fact that ''it would not hold it's value and yet it was his ''dream'' car in 1976 .I love my exotics to ..But Vette is Sweeeeet

  • 1,000,000.dollars man thats alot of money for a zr1 and why does it have exotic car parts what happened to all american no wonder these car companys are going under.

  • a lot of the parts, like the magnetic suspension system, was actually developed in the US. Believe it or not lots of European exotics have a lot of US parts in them ;)

  • i take it for free

  • me to

  • Some one plz scratch that paint.....and 60k for a gallon of PAINT.....these guys have WAY too much money

  • there is so many people out there with so much money that they dont even know what to do with it.. seriously in the whole place there was nobody that wanted to outbid that guy? common its for charity plus its a one of a kind collectors item. if people can give that much money to chairty why not have a corvette too!

  • haha that girl obviously isn't too impressed

  • greatest corvette in the world1

  • $60,000 a gallon for paint??? sum1, quick, go scratch it.

  • key or screw driver? =D

  • haha an aston martin gets raped by the zr1 aston martin phh there more weight than speed

  • true but aston martin is more luxury thats what its about

  • This car rides beyond smooth and gives an incredibly comfortable ride, even when pushing the car. The interior is all leather, aluminium, chrome, and carbonfiber. It's luxury and sport.

  • luxury? then why the hell are you buying a sports car if you want luxury/ buy a damn rolls or a bentley

  • there fricking exspensive

  • dude quit hatin! aston martins are awesome. but it is mo match 4 the ZR1. that guy said that this corvette is a car like with steroids!

  • Your right it won't match up. It would eat the DbS and shit it back out.

  • When you have Jay Leno talkin, you know you have THE KING OF VETTES

  • its credibility because he's has one of the large and grandest car collections in the world next to ron pratt

  • But my magazine says 101 thousand....

  • "american technology leads the world"....ehmm?...he did say the brakes came from the Enzo which is european..suspension was made by Lotus..which is european...it was driven around the Nurburgring which happen to be european also...so the most important bits of the car were made and tuned in europe

  • The brakes are by a third party called brembo... the suspension is definitely not by lotus, it is a Magnetic Selective Ride Control developed by Delphi an american company, which Ferrari took from GM. A lot more of the car was tuned at the Lutz-ring GM's private proving grounds, the N-ring has the biggest publicity of course...

    The biggest factor in this car is the engine which is 100% American design

  • most important piece of f the car when it comes to American cars is the engine and drive train baby and thats all American in the zr1

  • I offer $1,000,000,01. Is it too late?

  • gtr¿

  • wtf give me the car without any paint ill paint it msyelf with 300 D:

  • 1 mil my asshole you can get dat car arroud $100,000

  • but it ain't number 0001

  • WTF??? ... .. american technology lead the world????

  • You sleep in a cave?

    1) Military

    2) Space Travel

    3) Automotive

    4) Medicine

    5) Nuclear tecnology

    6) BioTechnology

  • lol yeah

  • You forgot weapons of mass extinction LOL.

  • Yeah that was some major bullshit. They lead the world in Space and Military planes, but that's about it. DEFINITELY not in cars, US cant make a car for shit, the Z06/ZR1 is one of the few quality cars they make.

  • Yeah =/ I think Europe kicks ass at making cars.

    and then japan, and in the future south korea.

  • Think of how restricted our emission laws are in the US and safety regulations. You can't build a "super car" like the Europeans do all and still get 35-40mph, pass ALL emission standards (that crap will cut a motors output DOWN big time) and pass all crash tests.

    Not to mention the US builds disposable razor blades when it comes to cars...use them for a while, then toss them in the trash, and we are dumb enough to keep buying them.

    But still, the Europeans can build cars no doubt.

  • $60,000 Per Gallon For Paint

    Geesh...Dont Scratch It!

  • yeah....but i figure that they have machines that can use less than a gallon of paint per car

  • Very Good Point

  • they should add some more carbon fiber parts and add bi turbos. IT'll be the fastest car in the world WWOO HOOOOOOO hell put a v12 in it! 100 liters WOOHOOO

  • I'm afraid I have some cars that would smoke the shit out of this!

  • no you dont

  • Yes I do

  • my farts are 620HP lmfao j/k people relax lol

  • I would give me right nut for this thing. I can't wait til the first vid of one of these going up against an sti or evo. Then maybe they will realize. 650hp, 11 sec quater, over 200mph=no sti or evo for days!

  • are you kidding? there is a reason why the zr1cost 110 thousand dollars. the evo sti cost 30 new 40 fully loaded so hmmm drop the rest in it and i think it would beat the zr1. now im not dissing the corvette i mean its a beast but come on man at least be like yeah i cant wait till this beats a 500,000 car not a 30,000

  • So not worth the money...lol. think about the interior. compared to a German's car interior... think about the price compared to other cars. What about Porsche Carrera GT? which would you pick???

  • GTR is all hype. Using the launch control even voids the warranty! so many GT-R owners are getting F'd because their trans is blown from trying to get that magical 3.2s 0-60. its a peice of shit, and then they have to spend extra money out of their pocket to get it fixed. ZR1>GT-R. time to find out what the Spec V has to offer

  • That guy has a big heart that's for sure... Idk if I could justify that kinda dough for the car! I'll stick to one at sticker.

  • i dont think i could even deal with sticker... thats even a bit much lol

  • IMO it's worth it though...I have a $130K 911 turbo and the ZR1 could outgun it in first gear...and surprisingly outhandle it!

  • theirs a guy in my neighborhood with a blue zr1 that looks exactly like the one here. I dunno if it's an 09 one, or 08 or somethin.

  • *error* oops, ZR1 are only 09 and future... haha, yea its the same one then.

  • better of with gtr

  • All american horse power like a rock...

  • Ballin...

  • God bless American horsepower

    To the people that carry on the tradition of Corvette an Chevrolet muscle cars - Thank you

  • id rather get a 2009 nissan gtr spec v...way less than a corvette cost wise and it outperforms the corvette..read road and track from either june or july 2008 or somethin like that and they did this whole big article about the gtr and how it "spanks" the zr1 and 911 turbo...when it comes to performance and bang for your buck, youd be an idiot not to go with the gtr, but i understand the legacy of the corvette but come on...

  • The spec v is 130k, the zr1 is 105k, plus the zr1 is faster in every way, has more power, and you get to actually drive it.

  • i just say the spec v because thats my favorite gtr...but the only way the zr1 is faster than the nissan gtr is top speed, when it comes to acceleration and all that mess, the gtr mobs the shit outta this, it does 0-60 in just under 3 seconds in ideal driving conditions....STOCK

    i just personally think that the nissan gtr cant be beat for all the bang you get for your buck...dont get me wrong, i love corvettes but read road and track man, its been proven the gtr is dominant over zr1 & 911turb

  • you do mean just over 3 seconds right? its 0-60 was 3.3. also no official numbers on the ZR1 have been released yet so its really premature to say that the GT-R out accelerates it to 60. last time i checked it wasnt the 0-60 time that won races it was the overall lap time that won races. and when you get out performed by an engineer (not the factory driver) on the ring you know that cars just naturally faster. id have loved to see the time Jhonny 'O would have done if he was driving the car.

  • in good conditions people are getting sub 3.2 times 0-60 (gtr)

  • not to mention everything else in your post is total misinformation