With nearly 500 horsepower and a rotation-friendly mid-ship layout, the 2020 Corvette is hugely capable with regard to performance. However, when that performance is improperly applied on public roads, the end result could be disaster, as evidenced by these new 2020 Corvette crash photos.
Posted yesterday to the C8 Corvette Facebook Page, there’s no backstory to these new images. That said, there are a few things to piece together just by examining the pictures.
First off, it looks like the roads around the crash site are wet, which undoubtedly contributed to the accident. Although a mid-engine layout helps to push the rear wheels down into the pavement, increasing traction, it also tends to make a vehicle more “tail-happy,” rotating with less provocation and potentially causing a spin.
That said, we don’t know if the driver of this 2020 Corvette is even at fault here. It’s entirely possible the driver was avoiding an animal in the road, or it’s possible another vehicle was involved in the incident.
Either way, the end result is pretty clear – this 2020 Corvette is smashed to pieces. The high wing spoiler in back is dented, the fenders are falling off, the front truck is exposed, and the entire fascia is gone. It also appears as though the car may have slid some distance across the field, as the side body panels have collected quite a bit of grass.
Either way, we hope the driver of this 2020 Corvette walked away unscathed from the incident. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen the new mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette end up on the wrong side of a physics equation – back in August of 2019, a pre-production model crashed near Yosemite, California, while in April, a drunk driver totaled one owner’s C8 after just a single day of ownership.
Stay safe out there, folks.
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Source: C8 Corvette Facebook Page
Comments
That’s what happens when you drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. Bad weather is not an excuse. A mid engine layout makes the car safer at higher speeds. Yet, it doesn’t exempt vehicles from accidents..
Seems to me there are a lot of people out there whose guardian angel must have a Saturn V rocket strapped to their back, because people drive like they’re trying to qualify for Indy.
LOL! Agreed! Especially during this Coronavirus outbreak, people are driving like maniacs out there! Like they’re trying to make some point… Traffic lights look like those of a drag strip…
Yep, unfortunately that individual failed to qualify…Lol
We certainly do not know the circumstances, but we have seen quite a few of these wrecks with the C8 even with the limited number sold so far. High powered machines in the hand of ordinary drivers are no doubt a contributing factor. Corvette Buyer’s should all take the Ron fellows performance driving school at Spring Mountain Nevada, which is offered to them at a big discount from Chevrolet.
“mid-engine layout” “tends to make a vehicle more “tail-happy”
What, what? So the C8 Corvette is more “tail happy” then a pick-up truck? I often wondered about that said no one.
FAIL
Looks like yet another case of more money than brains. Such a shame to see this beautiful Corvette die in it’s infancy.
All these wrecks will drive up insurance costs and that in turn will reduce sales volumes will reduce profit margins which will drive up cost, which will further reduce volume and then bam, it the last “sacred cow” ( Mark Ruess’s words) will be dead due to lack of interest. Sadly, the wrecked cars look more cohesive than the factory fresh mess!
Idiots have been crashing brand new, and used Corvettes, since the beginning of time. Corvettes already have higher than average insurance rates. The C8 will be no different, but I don’t expect the percentage of C8’s that get wrecked, to be any higher than any other generation.
gbvette,
Actually it might. GM is aiming for a younger audience with the C8. The supposed dictate from GM Design was to give the car a look to appeal to eight-year old boys. That’s a drastically younger target although clearly no one expects to sell cars to that age group but I think the point was to substantially lower the average age of Corvette buyers which had become too old. If new Corvette buyers are younger than their forebears, it stands to reason that they might be more reckless and therefore, they might crash their cars more. That would result in greater losses to insurance companies which would then result in higher premiums. Higher premiums then make the prospect of owning a Corvette cost prohibitive for a greater swath of buyers which then reduces sales. The comment from Fedup may therefore actually have some validity.
Conversely, if they’ve increased their pool of buyers by adding younger people, they do still have more prospects from the outset but every crash of a C8 has the potential to harm future sales I’d say. The best thing for the Corvette would be if it finds plenty of 25 year old owners but keeps the more cautious 65 year olds too.
There are many cars today with abilities far beyond todays idiot drivers.
Lol, looks like all the Dbags deployed on impact……😉.
There are many cars today with abilities far beyond todays idiot drivers.
500 HP car and 250 HP driver.
Too much car, not enough driver. Thank your lucky stars that you lived and go buy Prius.
Somebody let Mark Reuss drive another new Corvette!
With the current shortage of C8s, and the likelihood of the shortage to continue for several months. it’s unlikely the owner will get a new, replacement Vette, anytime soon. I have absolutely no sympathy for any jerk who drives like a madman on a public road, while it’s raining, and then, duh, wipes out his brand-new car. Maybe the Corvette engineers need to develop a ‘power-down” mode, not unlike the valet key mode available on some high-powered cars, like Hellcats, that would drop the horsepower down to a more saner, 200HP range, when driving during inclement weather, with something like a road water sensor, or activation when the windshield wipers are manually switched on, and run continuously for five minutes, or longer.