Early this year, we posted our Chevrolet Corvette SUV rendering, showing what it might look like if the latest C8 Corvette styling cues were applied to a new high-performance crossover model. As expected, the response from fans was immediate, with some calling the rendering blasphemy, and others seeing value in offering Chevy’s famous sports car in a brand-new body style. Now, we’re once again risking backlash from hordes of angry Vette purists with this new Corvette SUV Z71 rendering.
Building off the Corvette SUV rendering we published back in January, this new Z71 model applies all the off-roading gear expected of the name, but without mucking up the standard C8 Corvette design cues.
More specifically, our Z71 model comes with larger tires designed to handle a variety of terrain and conditions, with the new rubber mounted on two-tone split-five-spoke wheels. The new running gear fills the wheel wells with purpose, while a suspension lift provides the appropriate stance. We also added black trim bits around the wheel wells, and step-ups in the profile.
Further off-roading-specific equipment includes red tow hooks in the front fascia, plus a modified front bumper for a better approach angle and a skid plate as well. Final details include a Z71 badge on the front doors.
Essentially, our original Chevrolet Corvette SUV rendering would be offered as a street-oriented performance model, whereas this new Corvette SUV Z71 would be more a high-performance desert stormer designed to take down rivals like the Ford Raptor.
Naturally, it bears mentioning that rumors General Motors is considering a Corvette SUV have been swirling for a while now, but with nothing concrete to point to as of yet. And yes, while we have no doubt that the purists are racing to the comments section to voice their displeasure at seeing the Vette as an off-road SUV, the fact is others will no doubt like this kind of thing.
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I just vomited in my mouth!
RAPTOR is not a SUV, Corvette where’s the motor in the back? NOPE
That’s awful. Looks ready to challenge the Ford Escape maybe. You’re hurting the Chevrolet Corvette just by creating and posting it.
Pass , there is to many SUV- cuv s out there to pick in that price point $50-75k . now 4Runner size no 3rd row z71,zr2 or turbo diesel desert runner -Baja off roader
NO,…….Please no
Enough with the renderings.
I kind of like this idea. Turn the Corvette brand into what Porsche started 20+ years ago. A few Corvette models in the $60 – $120 range is a place GM needs to go in my view. A Corvette line could be legit, authentic and have really good margins. No other GM brand has the juice to go to this space.
Not4one : great idea never thought of that about Porsche they have sports cars and SUV ‘s Different price point ‘s . Hope gm reads these Comments and no 3 rows
Porsche needed to branch out into SUVs to survive and keep their dealers in business. Chevrolet already has plenty of SUVs in their portfolio and Chevy dealers have many different utility vehicles sitting on their lots. There’s no similar need at Chevrolet. Thus, this is a bad idea.
Porsche was indeed trying to survive at the time, which I’m sure GM is equally focused on now…they weren’t concerned about their retail chain, they were concerned about living for another day. The strategy has been so successful, and Porsche became so valuable it (as by far the most profitable brand in VW) is now surely worth a multiple more than all of GM. Corvette as a model does little for GM shareholders. It’s hardly worth discarding as a strategy benchmark.
As I said before I don’t like SUV’s or cuv’s but Americans keep buying them, I also don’t like calling it a corvette, call it a Chevy something with corvette stying put a LT1 in as a base and share platforms with your bronco competitor
Yes, make Corvette a full line independent brand to replace dead end Cadillac.
This generation has brought much needed good attention to the brand and even Mark Ruess said that this is Cadillac’s last chance. Cadillac, aside from CUVs, will fail! It can’t even do design right going curvy as everyone else shifts to angular, geometric Caddy-like design.
Corvette could fill the void as a less expensive Porsche rival.
That demonstrates perfectly why a photoshop “guy” isn’t a designer…
Leave Corvette a chevy
Just make me a damn Jimmy using the Canyon platform. Stop with this nonsense.
Only an idiot would write such an article.
Looks like a copy of Porsche to ne
Drop a 650 horsepower LT4 supercharged 6.2L V8 into a 2021 Chevrolet Blazer and you’ve got yourself a Corvette-SUV as building a complete new vehicle is too expensive and time consuming given that California will outlaw gas engines in 2035.
WTF.
While a street/performance Vette SUV I’m all for, this is a no-go..
Horrible. Not everyone likes SUV’s or Crossovers.
I find this humorous. All the so called Mustang purest who have complained about the Mustang Mach E. Now a C8 SUV.
A jacked up 5dr hatch…stick to your performance coupes.
Bull…stuff. Quit wasting your time dreaming up crap like this.
Leave the Corvette alone. GM has enough problems without putting garbage like this in their heads.
That “Lady” at the helm has done plenty of harm and does not need any more help. Design some good stuff like maybe a slightly “one off” hybrid Corvette. Or even bring out a sporty Volt hybrid. The technology is just not far enough along as of today to do completely electric cars. My neighbor has a nice Tesla. They just drove across the country from Washing state to Georgia. It took several days and much “Waiting” for charging to drive like that. Technology will eventually get there – more than likely – but hybrid makes more sense in the short term…
You are right. I´m owner of a Chevy Volt, one of the best cars I ever had, but there´s no human power that will make me trade it for a boring SUV or a Crossover. If GM doesn´t produce anything that substitutes that car, I prefer to keep it or definitively go for a Tesla Model S. By the time I decide to change the Volt, I expect that many of the current problems to charge electric cars while travelling are solved.
I love it. I would totally buy one. Fast SUVs are the rage now. This would be the king of them all. What SUV would be better than this one? NONE!!
Gosh, if you’re going to mess with the corvette, stick an electric motor driving the front wheels and put a battery module in the frunk. 700HP AWD ‘vette would definitely put up some numbers. You’ll then have an AWD hybrid that at least would sell.
Really, the Raptor. More like challenge the Cayenne for front row parking at the Country Club.
Great Idea !
Corvette is not only a performance model but it`s brand of excellence and performance.
Porsche understood this more than 10 years ago with the Cayenne !
Chevrolet should have this performance alternative too to low manufacturing costs.
I always wondered why the old GM from which I was stock owner was been sleeping son many so deep.
Porsche is the manufacturer, Corvette is not. Chevrolet is. It would be the equivalent of a 911 Cayenne
If a member of our Corvette club shows up in anything close to looking like that, l will quit the club immediately! The downfall of brands that fail, is not diversification, but diversification that strays from its historical line of futuristic projection. Nothing of this rendering fits into Corvette’s line of projection.
nut job…. Porsche created a revenue stream and GM is to stupid to create something to rival them?
@Troy…Did you call me a nut job? Why would you resort to name-calling because I have a different idea than you have? Porsche started a new brand – Cayenne. They didn’t build a SUV and name it Carrera GT.
Trying to avoid getting pedantic, but Porsche is the brand, the Cayenne, Panamera or 911 Carreras are models. Corvette can be a brand, current model would be Sting Ray. There can be a Manta Ray, X Ray, Desert Ray, Sun Ray, whatever.
@Not4one… You are very right. Thanks for pointing that out. And when you think about Corvette as a brand with the different models the way you just stated it, it makes more sense to me. Although it still makes me cringe…but just a little less cringe. 🙂
GM closed Olds, Pontiac, and Saturn because they had too many brands for their size. If they want to link high performance Chevy crossovers to Corvettes coattails, fine. Adding another brand is the wrong approach.
Well, they can swap it for US Buick, where there’s nothing left to sell that has anything to do with the brand. Seriously though, all those brands you mention were no longer authentic…their models were largely generic GM models with light lipstick to differentiate them…kind of like the difference between Chevy and GMC SUV’s or pick ups.
Corvette is an authentic brand, and even if platforms need to be shared, could be differentiated enough to continue to be seen as authentic Corvette…though it would take real money and they could run out of patience and revert to their old ways, kind of like they did with Saturn. on the other hand, the proven examples are there…the way Porsche and Audi successfully maintain their premium and differentiate from VW, and Lexus from Toyota.
As if we need yet another crossover. It’s fine to take styling cues from a flagship model and apply them to the more humdrum vehicles, but to use the name as well? The Silverado is such a good selling truck why don’t we build a Camaro-like car with Silverado badges? Remember the Sebring Convertible? It was a completely different car from the coupe of the same name.
No, bad Chevy, go outside
If you remember they once built a
Station wagon show car so why not
Do an suv
No they didn’t. That was a Callaway option to replace the hatch.
I like the idea of Corvette as a brand but leave the off-road stuff to Chevy proper. And CUV and maybe a sedan is fine and maybe a lower-end coupe but none of it needs to be off-road oreinted.
Sportwagons are cool, especially built on sporting chassis. Crossovers, not really.
It makes to much sense which means GM will never do it. Um lets see, Lamborghini – yes, Aston Martin – Yes, Porsche – Duh, Ferrari – one in on the drawing board, Mercedes, Audi, BMW – high performance SUV’s – Yep, Cadillac – HP/SUV – No…. GM is run by freaking idiots…
I agree, this would sell, but when even Lamborghini gets on the performance SUV bandwagon before you, you know it’s a bit late to be in the thought stage.
Maybe GM will have some exciting high performance electric SUVs — or maybe not.
Outside of the Corvette coupe, GM performance is a artifact of the Bob Lutz days, and he’s been out for a while. I’m hoping there’s some final glory in the V-series (faux) Blackwing sedans for those of us who don’t want a 2-seater.
I’ve met Bob Lutz a couple times, insanely cool guy and whew, what a car guy. GM will likely create something EV because the battery pack and platforms will be interchangeable and therefore significantly cost effective… but to that I say, who cares. If ICE’s days are numbered then GM gave up years ago. I agree on the CTS-V (genIII) absolutely world class and bad ass… the CT5-V “Blackwing” IMO is joke because its name is meaningless… GM is run by morons…
Troy,
Lutz was running GM and lead it into bankruptcy… Do you label him a moron too?
Agree. Well said.
Maybe still some hope, but very late to the parade. On the other hand, what else they got…a US Buick on its death bed, a lost Cadillac and a decent truck line up that is built on adding 3 levels of lipstick and jewelry to a sound platform. At least the Corvette brand could be authentic (assuming the models were real and not lipstick additions) and actually stand for something premium with the consumer.
You guys can b! tch and wh! ne all you want but the Corvette SUV is on the way. (street performance and not off-road) They need to keep volume up in that plant. Why do you think they expanded it and put in a brand new paintshop?
Sport car demand is very fickle but the market is SUV crazy. That’s the only way to guarantee there will be a C9 and C10. The Porsche SUVs subsidize the 911.
If you’re going to build it. GM needs to ride the Corvette name. Otherwise it’s just another Chevy SUV. Ford built the Mustang Mach E and Mustang owners or want to be owners started complaining. From pre-order numbers of the Mach E. It looks like a smart move by Ford. A battery powered crossover unlike the C8 crossover thats gasoline powered. The Mach E helps address the new upcoming California ruling of no new gasoline powered vehicles sold there after 2035. That’s 11% of new cars sold per year by all Manufacturers. I have to admit. I find the rendering more attractive than the other Crossovers and SUVs GM offers. Maybe because it looks like a Porsche. My guess is there are those who would love owning a C8, but needs more seating and two extra door. This vehicle would open a new market for GM. It will be interesting seeing if GM would actually build it. My guess in the future. The C8 Vette wiill offer an EV version.
The Cady “V” series has the 4 door super car items covered already…….leave two door Vette alone.
This is going to create a lot of controversy, but I’m going to say it anyway. I honestly want to see an ultra high performance Crossover variant of the Mustang and the Corvette with gasoline hybrid powertrains. Something in the same fashion of the Lamborghini Urus, the BMW X6M and the Audi RS Q8. Small displacement DOHC V8 twin turbo V8 engines with hybrid AWD rear wheel drive based powertrains (meaning longitudinal engine setups).
this is looking good
and also sup
No! It shouldn’t look like this Frankenstein of a SUV.
Looks cool
Also GM & Chevy needs to bring the Onix to the U.S. and Europe
Gm your idiots to do that to the corvette just kill it off instead let it go in a blaze of glory for the many years that it has been americas sports CAR. An electric corvette suv just dumb rubbish. I am not the hugest fan of gm other than the Buick gnx. If I was the hugest fan of gm I’d drop gm and switch to dodge cause you are going to take an iconic car just like ford did with their mustang and you are going to sully the good name of the corvette. For car people all over don’t call it a corvette.
O hell no! The Corvette is an icon, has always been a 2 door sports car and it should stay that way. For those who want a high performance suv, put high performance goodies in the Blazor. Look at what happened to the T-Bird: it was a great car until it went 4 door, then it just went away.
O hell no! The Corvette is an icon, has always been a 2 door sports car and it should stay that way. For those who want a high performance suv, put high performance goodies in the Blazer or 1500. Look at what happened to the T-Bird: it was a great car until it went 4 seater, then it just went away. Ford tried to bring it back but without the go fast goodies it was not what the market wanted. GM can’t make enough Corvettes to meet marked demand, but put in two more seats and more doors and watch the car die a quick death…..forever.