Zora Seemed Like The Perfect Name. Zora Arkus-Duntov was no ordinary engineer. He turned the Corvette into a true sports car, ...

Hard-core Corvette fans know Zora Arkus-Duntov and the contributions he bestowed over his two-plus decades at General Motors. Anticipating the arrival of the next-generation C8 Corvette adorned ...

For the better part of a decade, the Corvette rumor mill has been churning about the development of an ultimate performance ...

Zora Arkus-Duntov was born with the name Zachary Arkus in Brussels, Belgium, on Christmas Day 1909 to Russian nationals. Zora's mother, Rachel Kogan, left his birth father and married an ...

The ultimate production Corvette is officially here, and it's called the 2026 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X. Speaking of ... how ...

Zora Arkus-Duntov, a Russian born in Belgium who came to America on the eve of World War II, managed to work his way into General Motors and became both the car's first chief engineer and the ...

Despite widespread speculation that the hybridized Corvette ZR1 would bear the name Zora, GM went with Corvette ZR1X instead.

Instead, Chevy has gone with the rather uninspiring ZR1X, a name that sounds more like something a Japanese manufacturer ...

Editor's note: Zora Arkus-Duntov, a man whose name was synonymous with high-performance cars and especially with the Chevrolet Corvette, passed away on April 21, 1996. He was 86 years old.

After a long series of letters and interviews, on May 1, 1953, Zora Arkus-Duntov was hired by GM to work in the Chevrolet Engineering Department under Maurice Olley, with a starting salary of $14,000.

The twin-turbo V8 hybrid ZR1X fulfills the Zora prophecy from years gone by. But with many of its makers already out the door ...

Similarly, the ZR1X will also be available as both a removable hardtop coupe and a powered hardtop convertible—meaning that ...