2020 Chevrolet C8 Corvette

[mywayorcyway]

It looks like it has the paddle shifters on the steering wheel, which is what most performance cars (and a lot of other cars, actually - our old Pontiac Grand Prix and our Ford Edge had those) have gone to.

The Corvette has had paddle shifters since 2006. They haven't changed much, but the transmission definitely has.

I've seen nothing about a manual option for the C8. It might be gone for good, and that's going to anger up the blood of a lot of Corvette owners.

 

[jdoggivjc]

It was time for Chevy to make a drastic move. I love the looks of it, and as has been the case for the last 10 years, it's tough to beat the performance of a Corvette for the price.

Will be interesting to see what the maintenance and durability of it is. One advantage the Corvette had was even though it could compete with supercars, it was still a Chevy. You could take it just about anywhere and they could work on it, and you could drive the car 100k miles without a problem. Probably not doing that with a Ferrari. This is a completely new car. I'm wondering what sort of weird gremlins might appear.

Absolutely cannot wait for a Z06 or ZR1 version of this car. They're talking potentially 1,000 horsepower. Insane.

From what I had read in various places Chevy had maxed out performance capability for the Corvette in the FR configuration (front engine/rear wheel drive). Either they were going to have to rest on their laurels from here on out performance-wise and just change the looks and upgrade the toys every few years, or they were going to have to make this radical shift to the MR configuration (mid engine/rear wheel drive).

I understand why there is a backlash to it - as much as they tried to keep it looking like a Stingray Corvette, it's still a departure. As much as I've liked the looks of the Corvette, especially the last decade, it was never on my radar to ever own one. At 6'3" and "big boned", it was really hard for me to get in and out of it when I sat in one at a car show one time. If what Leno says is true, that by them moving the engine behind the cabin opens up the front to the point where us big guys can now feel comfortable in one, well, I don't know how much it is or isn't on my radar at this point, as I'll have two daughters to put through college and eventually two weddings to pay for, but at least the idea of owning one one day has now joined the possibility of owning a Shelby Mustang (if they still make them) or a Charger SRT.

 

[besserheimerphat]

Here's just the B roll for a better look.



The current Stingray is one of the best looking cars around, but this one looks pretty damn good.

Anybody else notice the gear selector is a series of buttons? There was a lot of hate for knob or push button gear selectors in the Car Advances thread.