We decided to find the cheapest production car on sale in the US with 1,000 hp, and you certainly don't need hypercar money to access it. In fact, you don't even need a six-figure dollar amount.

Call it your entry-level hypercar. With an insane 1,064-horsepower and 233 mph top speed, the wicked-looking, mid-engine Chevy Corvette ZR1 can rocket from zero to 60 mph in just 2.3 seconds and ...

By 2011, he launched its first all-electric hypercar, the Concept One ... a different mission than those seeking to sell volumes of cheap EVs, has been one of the few success stories.

Both are supercar moniker-worthy, indeed, but not even in the ballpark of hypercar-like performance. All this changed overnight when the traditionally most powerful ZR1 models were unveiled.

That would have been the easiest and cheapest way to open a new chapter ... The car was beginning to take shape: a hypercar marketed as a follow-up to the Chiron with a rear-mid-mounted gasoline ...