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The Corvette ZR1X, Mustang GTD, Lucid Air Sapphire, and Czinger 21C prove America’s best performance cars are better than ever

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The Sapphire came on strong, while having greater range than all of its ICE competitors:
www.motortrend.com

The State of American Performance: Shaking Down the USA’s Top Guns

As America celebrates its 250th Anniversary, MotorTrend tests the Corvette ZR1X, Mustang GTD, Lucid Air Sapphire, and Czinger 21C on road and track to see what defines American performance in 2026.
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Love the Top Gun reference and Murica built and designed for the upcoming holiday!
 
Great article! Jump to the end to see that the Corvette is the most inexpensive as tested at $255K and the Sapphire is second at $258K. The others are way more expensive but go through the specs and the Lucid is number one in almost all categories!!!
 
I feel like there must be a typo on the passing 45-65 test for the Sapphire. There's no way it took 4.6s
 
doubletwist said:
I feel like there must be a typo on the passing 45-65 test for the Sapphire. There's no way it took 4.6s
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Yeah should be like 0.6s, or they used an excel cell dropdown interpolation from the previous acceleration rates...
 
It gets even better. Take the original (4) cars and add
  • Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing
  • Tesla Model 3 Performance
  • Tesla Cyberbeast
  • Rivian R1T Quad Motor
and do both a 1/4 mile and a 1/2 mile drag race. What we have here is a very diverse competitor group.
  • (4) Electric Vehicles
  • (4) gasoline powered vehicles, of which (2) are hybrids
  • (3) family sedans
  • (2) pickup trucks
  • (1) manual transmission

I won't spoil the endings. All American Drag Race
 
Doug DeMuro pointed out the Saphire specifically about how it just destroyed the Ferrari Luce for 1/3 price and looks better too 😂 it’s a good point. It’s weird the Saphire even exists but it’s awesome.
 
I love that it takes a $2.3mil hyper-car a full half mile to finally overtake a 5-seat luxury sedan and beat it by a measly 0.1 sec!

I really wish someone would finally do some proper run with the Touring trim so I can finally have a real sense of where my car would stack up. Everything seems to run the Sapphire, or a GT.
 
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