The seemingly never-ending undressing of Chevy’s mid-engine Corvette C8 continues, as enthusiasts, fans, journalists, and industry followers look to better understand the upcoming sports car. Today, our spy shooter captured a prototype wearing production lights front and back. Despite the prototype continuing to wear a significant amount of camouflage, we do get our first look at several noteworthy lighting characteristics.
Up front, the headlight cluster seems to house a multi-matrix LED setup for the primary lighting unit. An orange accent strip resides at the top of the headlight cluster. Camo is covering the overwhelming majority of the headlight cluster, making it somewhat difficult to figure out the intricacies of how the entire ensemble will come together once the wraps come off.
Things get even more interesting out back, as we get our first look at the production-intent taillamps of the mid-engine Corvette C8. The overall design direction of the rear lights seems to be an evolution of those introduced on the current, C7 Corvette – whose taillights feature two vertical LED bars connected by a horizontal unit at the bottom. Like on the C7, the pattern on the C8 is repeated four times on the rear end – twice on the driver’s side, and then again on the passenger side.
C7 Corvette tail lamps
This particular tester also appears to have a rather aggressive-looking front fascia, but we believe that this is because it’s missing part of the front clip/bumper cover. Pay no mind to that.
We also don’t know why the prototype is wearing a comms fin on the driver’s side of the hood, near the cowl – but we suspect that it’s there for testing purposes only, and that the production Corvette C8 won’t have a fin in that peculiar location.
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Cannot wait to see this car. Cannot wait!!!
Whats on the hood?!? (drivers side)
camouflaged dead squirrel.
with GM still producing the C-7 Corvette and 6000 on dealers lots I believe the C-8 will be delayed for some reason
It is delayed, they discovered an electronic issue during development.
Time to show it before people lose interest…. Like the Supra.
Those hips at the back!
Does that excite you?
OF COURSE IT DOES!
i like the hips but that tramp stamp/spoiler needs to go.
Get a C7 Now! The C8 looks boring and derivative. Again GM Design Team showing no creativity, nothing original, and little passion. Every new product they’ve made in the past 5 years or so AT LEAST begs the question: What were they thinking?! Examples: Camaro, Blazer, Silverado, XT6, XT5, Silverado HD, etc.
It’s under camouflage. You can’t tell a damn thing.
Chevrolet’s C8 Corvette looks ready to hit the showroom and given how C7 Corvette inventory has swelled to over 230 days, it appears that Chevrolet could get thousands of orders for the C8 Corvette today if they began taking orders.
I was hoping that the new C8 would have an automatic rear wing like most modern sports cars have had for the last oh I don’t know 20 years HAHA.
All you can say is that GM loves themselves fixed spoilers. LOL
But that is a minor gripe if priced close to C7.
At this rate, I just hope they release the C8 before the leaks of the C9 start showing up.