New Mid-Engine Corvette C8 Spy Pictures Reveal New Lighting, Exhaust Details
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With every day, we’re getting closer and closer to the launch of the mid-engine Corvette. Granted, that day is still quite in the future, but sighting of C8 prototypes testing in California and Colorado has become significantly more common than in the past.
And now, new details are starting to come into focus though the camo, as these mid-engine Corvette spy photos provide a better look at the Corvette’s lighting elements, including the arrangement of the headlights as well as the rear-end treatment.
Mid-Engine Corvette Headlights
We don’t yet see the final design of the headlights, as they are still undergoing development, but we do get a good look at how the final arrangement will be configured, and likely its final shape, as well.
Mid-Engine Corvette Rear End
At the rear, this Corvette C8 prototype is wearing new sculpting details around the rear valance, especially the diffuser and exhaust.
Dual exhaust outlets huge the valance on both sides, resulting in a quad exhaust setup. Notably, the tips have a square shape, which is in contrast to the current Corvette C7 family’s round tips. The valance, meanwhile, has a trapezoidal shape with a prominent inward indentation in the center of the bottom end. The arrangement looks quite bold and aggressive, from what we can tell thus far.
Confirmation
Rumored for the last several years, the mid-engine Corvette C8 is quickly coming into its own. In fact, an attendee of last week’s Chevrolet national dealer meeting was cited as saying that executives showed images of the future Corvette mid-engine sports car, fully confirming the vehicle’s existence in the future Chevy product pipeline.
The mid-engine Corvette C8 is expected to launch for the 2020 model year sometime in the 2019 calendar year. Stay tuned to GM Authority more Corvette news and Corvette C8 news coverage.
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I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
I would agree with you as I would hope they don’t make a transformer vette but with that dealer from NJ pretty much confirming that the leaked front and rear bumpers in the factory were legit I think this will look amazing.
Those two pieces show this car will have a aggressive front end I see a lot of Ferrari in the design which isn’t bad at all
I think it’s ugly. I’m not a fan of that supercar look. I like the looks of the Vette now.
Congratulations! You’re now a member of the ‘Old Corvette fan’ club!
The club rules are very simple. Every new generation of Corvette is to looked upon with scorn and discontent. Then, between 6 months and 2 years after introduction, you simply warm up to the new generation of Corvette, and then accept it as the next chapter in the longest running story in sports car history.
I’ve seen club members back as far as 1996-97 MY reconcile their differences between their generations, and then later share a beer with members who were deeply upset about the loss of pop-up headlights on the C6. We’ve also consoled members who felt the C7 looked too ‘Japanese’ with it’s rear-quarter windows and non-circular taillights.
We at the OCFC have your back, and we’ll walk you through each new generation of Corvette so as to not rustle your jimmies any more than necessary.
Wow! All the thumbs down for saying I have a bad feeling about this?
I don’t have a lot of faith in GM’s design ability over the past 2-3 years. The rear 3/4 of the vehicle already looks awkward to me like someone someone took a machete to a block of wood.
I have absolutely LOVED every single new Gen of Corvette, including the latest. This one though just doesn’t give me the feels like in the past.
” The rear 3/4 of the vehicle already looks awkward to me like someone someone took a machete to a block of wood.”
IT’S STILL UNDER CAMOUFLAGE! IT’S SUPPOSED TO LOOK AWKWARD!
Every single person on this blog and in the public sphere has no clue what the car looks like….except for you who already knows that the car looks like a wood-carving, even without the camo.
Do you know why you have so many thumbs down? Would you like more?
Dying to find out how close in Price this will be to the C7. I personally would love to see a Family of Corvette’s
Make 3 corvettes, one aimed at miata/cayman/z4/fiat spyder like a lighter solstice/ sky replacement.
One like the c7 now.
And best of all a mid engine high performance model.
Give all of them, base model, gran sport, and a bonkers Z06 trim.
I like the squared exhaust tips.
Is that a square steering wheel?
this car is going to be fantastic inside/out. there is too much riding on this for gm to do anything else.
As I had mention in a previous post, I hope that GM will make this car and every other major vehicle in their portfolio available in RHD as well. After all, the Corvette is one of the most love sports cars in the world. So GM make the global market your focus for all customers willing to by your products like the C8 mid-engine Corvette.
Remember GM, you can’t be at a lost if you can sell your vehicles in other available markets
It looks like the gas cap is going to be on the driver’s side, if that means anything
It also looks as though they’ll have front curb-view cameras.
General Motors and the C8 Corvette design team knows that the eyes of the world will be watching whenever the new car breaks cover and it has to be flawless which means Chevrolet won’t introduce the C8 Corvette until they’re confident it’s a winner.
Are those fog lamps I see lurking under the camo? On a supercar?? [Hopefully it’s just my eyes playing tricks on me]
Jeez if they are I hope that is only a US DOT requirement, and is deleted on any export models.
No supercar needs fog lamps as it scythes through the countryside at 200 (plus) mph mowing down anyone and anything that gets in its way 😉
@fleetman
They’re most likely air ducts.
Hope so too.
I’ve touched some C8 parts. They make me tingle all over.
I love the comments assessing the car’s appearance. It fascinates me how people can form an opinion before ever seeing the thing. Lets all settle ourselves, wait and then provide commentary. I, for one, think this will like be a very successful progression for one of automotive history’s more storied names. After all, when Porsche transitioned the 911 to water-cooled, the world did not come to an end and the car lives on still.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if General Motors had been playing everyone in the world because this mystery car is the production version of Cadillac’s Cien.. and will be powered by a 800 hp variant of the LTA Twin-Turbocharged 5.0L DOHC-4v V8.
I think, most importantly, it needs to remain RWD or maybe go to AWD!
FWD would be ridiculous!
I am not a fan of this look. I am not against Chevy making a mid-engine vehicle, but not under the corvette name. They should keep the corvette looking like the corvette.
Well what does a Corvette look like?
Is the C7 what a Corvette Looks like. Or is it the 57 C1. What about the C2 67 L88?
Maybe it is the C3 in 1970?
The fact is the Corvette has changed much but the styling has always been identified as a Corvette and never mistaken for anything else. This is something the Vette team is well versed in as it has always been part of their task.
Once this is uncovered you will see hints of the C7 and ZR1 in the styling of this car but yet it will take on a new path for them to form a new extension of their own image.
The key is let them uncover it.
It looks a hell of a lot more like the C7 than the C7 looks like the C6!
Has anyone taken pictures with a heat camera to see how the engine is located?
Remember, the C8 will first be introduced as a Cadillac with a $150,000+ price tag. The C8 Corvette will follow at a lower base price.
Competition in 2020 will be the $200,000 Tesla Roadster. You heard it here first (actually I have had this information for months).
“You heard it here first”
Anyone who says the above quote on the internet (thinking this medium is like radio) can be safely dismissed.