General Motors and Chevrolet finally announced this week that the 2020Â mid-engine Corvette C8Â will debut on July 18th of this year, placing us less than 100 days away from the realization of Zora Duntov’s dream.
The automaker’s release was brief, including very little info about the car itself and urging interested parties to sign up to receive email updates on the vehicle at a later date. But for many Corvette fans, this vague announcement will suffice for the time being. It took GM long enough to even acknowledge that it did indeed have a mid-engine Corvette in development.
Official C8 Corvette announcement
While we’re still a bit short on information, Chevrolet did release some media of the mid-engine Corvette C8, including a b-roll video of it driving through New York City with Corvette chief engineer Tadge Juechter at the wheel. General Motors CEO Mary Barra can also be seen riding shotgun as the car slowly limbers through Times Square. There’s no sound on this video, unfortunately, as it’s a b-roll clip and is thus meant to be spliced into a video with its own preexisting audio.
It’s too bad we can’t hear the Corvette’s V8 engine in this clip, but the video does give us a good look at the vehicle’s thinly camouflaged front end, LED headlights, massive side scoops, and other design elements. If you look closely when Tadge goes to open the door for Mary, you will also notice the door handle is located underneath a protruding section of the side scoop, which is attached to the door and moves with it when it opens.
Check out the video embedded above to see the mid-engine Corvette C8 rolling through the streets of NYC before its official debut this summer.
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There is much to note here.
Not only the door handle but the nose is clean and shows all. It also shows how the car will have the GPS assisted nose lift like the Ferrari. The air dam is so low and protruded with out it you would not get in anywhere.
I noted they had temp lights inside to show off Mary and Tadge.
does that gps system map every driveway and road abnormality? in the video, that driveway’s incline was pretty shallow and there might’ve been an inch clearance at most.
at first i thought the door handle/scoop was weird but it offers a cleaner design. i like the front half of the car. the video gives it a little more length than the pics.
but that back end … too squarish and chunky. i hope all that camouflage is hiding a few surprises that will address that. it looks too much like a camaro.
i always thought design flowed from the top down but in this case, it is the opposite. i don’t know why they are taking exterior design cues from the camaro. has anyone ever said they wished their corvette’s back end looked more like a camaro?
No the system as I was told can be programmed to where you drive. You set the spots you need it.
We all know that Machete Mary never dodges a chance to be photographed, I am surprised she even wanted ay part of this car. It is the antithesis of her Triple Zero/All Electric future.
Hybrid AWD or no buy. Downvote all you want.
Hybrids should be FWD with 4 doors and a cheap price or no buy.
Downvote all you want
I think the new camaros are one of the best looking cars that I have seen in years…every time I see a new one on the road I take a double look……and I own a corvette!
the door handles are everything!!!
If you want to hear the c8 you have to go on chevys Instagram
Mr Juechter a very good man; no doubt, i´m glad to see he yet in the Corvette team.
About the car, i want see the engineering mounted in he; the design will be something more usual
Chevrolet is introducing the C8 Corvette in July which means the car is ready for production and this makes sense given that production of the C7 Corvette will stop this summer.
If they wanted to add more credibility to the intro, perhaps a race car driver would have been more appropriate in the shotgun seat than Machete Mary.
I for one am glad to see the end of this secrecy. Each new evolution is unique, and fascinating, not only for the changes, but also for what the aftermarket will offer.
One has to wonder whether the Corvette would have been noticed at all if it wasn’t for the camouflage paint scheme because if it was painted in a traditional Red or Black.. most people would have just assumed that the C8 Corvette as being an import from Europe.
I really hope that I will like this car. Design is so important and yet the strange finish on this car camouflages it to the point of an effective masking of its lines. To me, the C7 is very special, just as was the C3, and C4. I hope this one will be too. While we’re waiting for the big reveal, I hope we don’t forget the wonderful success we’ve had with the current design of the Corvette and those which went before it.
I was a bit concerned when I spotted nary a single “GM” or “Chevy” response to the thrashing of the ZR-1 a couple of weeks ago by Porsche. While I can accept a loss, I hardly believe it was as simple as the Vette could not hold up and I certainly do not believe that there could not be anything done that would turn things around in a re-match. I believe that “just wait until the C8 comes out!” is a pathetic and dumb response which neither satisfies nor elicits any respect from me or from those who have been loyal to the brand for as long as I have been. While I respect the Porsche brand, I have never been a fan of the design nor of its various offerings save one over the years. And I really think that addressing the Corvette enthusiast should be less of “out with the old, in with the new!” mentality. Corvette has a solid history of styling and performance that should not be just tossed out because a “mid-engine” Corvette is finally here.
I recall a lot of gnashing of teeth when the C7 design came out. It was so different and complex than the C6. But it’s performance and value were irresistible. I think the C8 will be a hit, if it provides the same value. I think we already know that it will kick ass, or the revolutionary design change for the car was for naught.
looks amazing, but…remember when corvette was a true grand touring car? Like, it had actual ground clearance and you could drive one across the country without feeling like it was going to bottom out or scrape the body panels on a bumpy country road or entryway? Those days are over. Now it’s just one more supercar to add to the list. I actually feel like the Corvette got a lot LESS unique for the 8th generation.
Every tim3 a new C model arrives half hate it and half love it at intro. In 6 months 90% love it.
We hav3 gone through this 7 times and will see it for an 8th time.
Many hate change till they finally experience the new car or grasp what it really is.
Not an exciting looking car. Very disappointing.