Mid Engine Corvette C8 To Go On Tour After This Month’s Reveal
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Not surprisingly, there is already massive customer interest in the forthcoming 2020 mid engine Corvette C8. Chevrolet recently added 400 jobs at the Bowling Green Assembly plant to prepare for the car’s arrival (enough workers to support a second production shift), strong evidence that the automaker is predicting the sports car will be a sales success from the get-go.
General Motors doesn’t want to keep its customers waiting after the mid engine Corvette C8 debut party later this month, so it has scheduled a special introductory “tour” for it. The new sports car will embark on a cross-country road trip, visiting 125 Chevrolet dealerships all over the USA and allowing interested customers to get up-close with the car shortly after its debut.
“At these events, Chevy dealers will host customers to showcase the new mid-engine supercar, display customizable parts (seats, wheels, accessories, etc.) and teach people how they can personalize their own Corvette,” GM’s media release said.
“With all the excitement around this vehicle, we don’t want people to have to wait to experience it in person,” added GM’s vice president for the Americas, Barry Engle. “Our national tours will bring the Next Generation car right to our customers’ local Chevrolet dealership, where they can start imagining themselves in their very own personalized mid-engine Corvette.”
Chevrolet dealerships on both the east and west boasts will be included in the mid engine Corvette C8 introduction tour. GM says it will announced exact tour dates and locations after the vehicle’s official debut in California on July 19.
GM has remained tight-lipped on official details, but GM Authority is expecting the mid engine Corvette C8 to debut with an updated version of GM’s 6.2-liter LT1 Small Block V8 engine called the LT2, which will make 480-500 horsepower. A seven-speed dual clutch will probably the only transmission option. More powerful model variants will probably be unveiled at a later date.
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Corvette is one of the car manufacturers whose car people or individuals always like to buy; as it has a great image in the market, a mid-powered engine of C8 will definitely win hearts of the customers and good luck to the company for the new car’s success.
IDK, Every time I hear one in a video I think “did someone take that exotic and drop in a truck engine?”
Hopefully one of the future engines will have a sound more appropriate for that body..
Have you heard a Koenigsegg, McLaren, AMG, etc with V8s? Not everything is an italian high pitch screamer that Civic dream want to be. Even modern V8 Ferrari’s sound more throaty now
Yes, heard them all. There is no mistaking a GM V8 for any of those. I can show you chevy truck videos, a c8 video, and one from every one of those, nobody will mistake the C8’s current sound with any of those other supercars, but some will have a hard time telling the difference between it and the GM truck with the performance exhaust they put on the 2019 pickups.
Chevy should have one at every single race in North America this summer, and hit the big events in Europe with it. Whether NASCAR, Indy, F1, LMP, etc.
This dealer tour is not a new idea. They used to do this much 50-60 years ago when a totally new model was coming out. It worked well then and should work very well now.
It will get people to the dealers to see the car and it will also help sell more Blazers as people will see them there.
Pontiac won a reprieve in the 80’s when the 3 gen Firebird and Fiero brought people to dealers. It help sell a ton of Grand Am’s no one would have considered otherwise.
The key here is plant the Vette in the showroom but encircle it with new products.
This is good news. It’s already seen tons of press before the reveal, so get it out there so people can see it in person.
Also, I can’t wait to get a loaner for the weekend!
Well hopefully with the engine in the right place finally they will have solved the rear traction issues and the horrible handling that was reported in all the car magazines
as well as we hope overheating is not an issue as it was in the older models crazy since Chevy has a test track in Arizona I guess they didn’t pay attention to all the radiators and coolers Bugatti had to add their supercar
PS my 2008 Ferrari F430 Spider never overheats and it’s a mid-engine v8 car I fear Chevy will once again have cheap ass looking Interiors and some dumb gawky features I can’t really find anything to criticize about my Ferrari except the cost of parts and it’s gone up in value more than $10,000 in less than 6 months since I bought it so how can I lose? a 10 year old car with only eight thousand miles
And the 2005 to 2009 Ferrari F430 spiders have beautiful styling by italian-Pinafarina we’ll see how good the vette ends up looking!
Hopefully it doesn’t have styling by a woman like the Honda NSX how ugly! You can tell it was designed by a woman!
Corvette with another car in the market sounds really interesting, it will be good to see how this Mid-engine car captures the market or go home too early from the market with criticism.
Where will the tour go on the west coast and what dates?
Has the dealer list been posted yet for where the 2020 Vette tour will be stopping? It’s been almost a week since it was suppose to be posted but still have not seen it anywhere!