General Motors made some massive strides in material and build quality with the interior of the C8 Corvette when compared with the seven-generation model that it replaces. These efforts didn’t go unnoticed, as customers and the media laid praise on the new sports car’s improved interior. The C8 Corvette even won a Wards Auto 10 Best Interiors award earlier this year, with the well-respected publication saying car is the comfiest ‘Vette yet and calling the cabin “handsomely configured” and “first rate.”
It seems not everyone agrees with this consensus, though. Bloomberg recently put together a list of the ‘Worst Car Interiors of 2020’ that included the C8 Corvette. Turns out the journalists over at Bloomberg really don’t appreciate the rather long row of buttons that occupies the C8 Corvette’s center console, as it splits up the cabin and takes away from the uniformity of the dashboard.
“Witness the massive, curved divider that runs straight through the middle of the car. Lined with buttons and covered in low-grade leather, it looks like a part of the command helm on the starship Enterprise,” Bloomberg claims.
“You’ll never be able to reach over and squeeze your driving partner’s knee or use the buttons on the angled center dashboard screen while the car is being driven,” the article goes on to say. “Second, those dozens of buttons along the interior walls, dashboard, and dividers feel out of step with current themes and with much of the luxury segment, where brands like Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce brag about how many interior knobs and switches they’re removing—at customer request.”
Bloomberg didn’t like the squared-off steering wheel that Chevy threw in the C8 Corvette, either, saying it “looks as if it were borrowed from Buick.” We’re not sure if any Buick vehicles currently in production can justify having a motorsports-inspired flat-bottom steering wheel with a 12 o’clock marker, to be honest, but we definitely wouldn’t complain if that were the case.
Lastly, Bloomberg dragged the C8 Corvette for its poor visibility, saying the “low, awkwardly designed cabin,” has poor visibility by the A-pillar and B-pillar, which becomes particularly troublesome when taking corners. The writer points out that a blind spot alert system is standard, though it’s worth noting that the base-level 1LT trim doesn’t include Side Blind Zone Alert as standard – only the better-equipped 2LT and 3LT do.
It may seem like Bloomberg was a bit mean to the C8 Corvette, but Chevy fans can take solace in the fact that two other high-end, mid-engine sports cars were also on the same list: the Lotus Evora and McLaren 570S. The newspaper justified its targeting of performance cars on the list by pointing out that Porsche, Ferrari, Audi and others all manage to produce sports and supercars with nice cabins, though offerings from those companies do not have the same horsepower-per-dollar value of the C8 Corvette.
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Yes, when it comes to cars we’ll listen to Bloomberg….
I may not like the Vette but this is overblown..
I don’t think Bloomberg could buy a vote of confidence on this one.
Most Vette owners will never track the car, GM should have this center console an option for those who will. This console separates the driver and passenger.
I guess for such a high performance car, separating the passengers and the driver is a good idea, especially from female passenger. It was not meant to be a super luxury car. Though, I think some of the buttons would be nice if replaced by dial knobs for less confusion or distribution. At the end of the day, I think the only way to fully criticize the console buttons would be to test drive the car first and have real test experience. As for now, I love the car.
Bloomberg, the first name in automotive reviews!
The center console is indeed a mess. The single line of buttons is so odd when you sit in the driver’s seat for the first time.
Many reviewers said the same thing at first but then after a couple days of using it they all said it made sense and was very easy to use.
“where brands like Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce brag about how many interior knobs and switches they’re removing—at customer request.”
At the same time I remember there were complaints that there wasn’t enough physical buttons and people were complaining that they needed them back…..
(Rolls-eyes at that writer and article)
Bloomberg just doesn’t understand what the cockpit of modern sports car should look like as the Chevrolet C8 Corvette’s interior is perfect for it’s purpose.
Lil Mike Bloomberg needs a phone book to look out the windshield . He is a traitor to the USA and hates everything American . His allegiance is to China first and the NWO second
Number 1, He didn’t write the review, an employee at one of his companies did. Number 2, stop listening to false right winged propaganda. Number 3, why bother posting this garbage it has nothing to do with the article.
I ‘ve owned a lot of Corvettes and owned/driven a lot of other sports cars. This article is BS. The C8 cockpit is designed for the driver. If you have to touch the passengers leg get a room.
Seems everyone has an opinion, now if it was a Powers list, it might mean something. Bloom-who?
So the Euros are crapping in their skinny jeans over the value of a C8 compared to the stuff they are pushing. Now, writers get greased to write foolish hit-pieces. Sorry. They can peddle that tripe somewhere else.
Wouldn’t expect anything less from Mini Mike!
He didn’t write the article, but what else should we expect from an ignorant Trump fan
Ok who cares about interior in a sports car, the new C8 can hit 194 without the Z51 aero, and with the Z51 aero 184, in other words these figures and the other acceleration figures are what’s important, if you want nice interior buy some furniture. Also when did Bloomberg become a credible car source?
Corvette, McLeran 570S, Lotus Evora
As long as your in good company, things aren’t that bad.
Anyway we can force the author to drive some POS that didn’t make his worst list? Mitsubishi Mirage for instance.
Bloomberg and there lobbyists create this negitivty and propaganda to hurt sales ! There are already to many wanna be auto journilists and critics on this planet ! Most like the interior and you can still reach a knee to grab ” creepy”
They never received the “check in the mail” otherwise the story would have been 180 degrees opposite. “Creepy” Joe Biden will not be buying this car. Doesn’t pass the “squeeze” test.
If Bloomberg thinks the C8 interior is bad, I guess they have never seen any of GMs others interiors.
I’m a big fan of Bloomberg… for financial news, not cars. I’ll put my faith in Ward’s when it comes to cars wholeheartedly.
This is what you get when you have a writer than happens to write about cars occasionally, along with travel, luxury items, and popular culture. Not a good look for Bloomberg.
Both the console & steering wheel takes a bit of adjustment but once yr familiar with them their great…same with the blind spots,use the rear view mirror to expand yr vision……..
A bit of wood grain would hv been nice,but we purchased them for performance…..
My 8th Vette,and a true keeper👍👍
I bet it is. Congrats.
When I drove one I thought the interior was pretty cool. As with every car on earth, there will be things we don’t like and the things we love. Cars are like humans…you either like them or you don’t.
If we all like it it will make the world monotone that the beauty of having controversy on design and quality .So to me it is a complement to gm that this organization thing like this.
I put zero stock in Bloomberg for pretty much any information, but I don’t entirely disagree with their conclusions on this.
The interior styling is decidedly over the top, it just looks like an industrial design orgasm with all the wings and layered details. The infotainment screen is a bizarre combination of fixed in place but with the look of being tacked on, almost obscuring some of the buttons below. With the engine in the rear, it makes no sense to have such a high center tunnel dividing the driver and passenger spaces, made even worse by the Great Wall of Buttons.
Very generally, the interior and exterior styling look great, but man, they just went too far on both and turned it into an example of design for the sake of design. Often, less is more, and this is just “If a little is good, not just more, but WAY MORE is better”.
I don’t know f all about corvettes, but i thought the new interior would be on a “best” list. Looks good to me.
The interior of the C8 will be remembered fondly in the future for just what they (BB) didn’t like. It will go down as a true stand out and stand alone innovation of interiors. This type of bold statements are what collectors like down the road. I love it!
F Bloomberg and his 1” platform shoes
Nobody is harder on GM interiors than me but this is utterly ridiculous.
The C8 Interior is amazing. Hopefully GM keeps adding great interior materials in all of their upcoming vehicles.
I’ve never heard any automotive writer beaching about “split up cabin and the lack of uniformity of the dashboard” for Lamborghinis or in the same sense lacking visibility for any sports car from Europe let alone for a mid-engine supercar. I’m sure all those cars have perfectly utilitarian interior designs and ten out of ten visibility! It’s ridiculous that how these so-called car reviewers conditioned to be fanboys for European brands and denigrate the American ones.
Hey nitwit this is not your daily driver to Walmart, it’s a mid engine supercar it’s suppose to be designed that way, you can’t make it with Toyota Corolla visibility and practical interior without losing its sportiveness, if you try then it would look akin to corolla and so lose aerodynamics, aka quickness and the top speed and also raised center gravity cost you handling capability. Nobody buy a sports cars for its practicality it’s number one look and number two performance.
GM gives best in the business rear-view camera which European brands don’t even have among their option and in fact if they had one they would have charge you so much you could buy a daily driver car with that money.
But i see GM as the real culprit here, they don’t have any clue how to position and market a high end product, through this incredibly capable product they could have easily announced Corvette as equivalent to European super sport cars and adjust the prices accordingly. You make better car than $250K 488 but sell it for 59K why? of course simpletons don’t appreciate and treat it like 59k cheap American car. These people conditioned to hate American cars and be sycophants for European brands. They have become plastic detection dogs when they have been in an American car then sit in a fully optioned 100K BMW and puff it up, treat like a standard car without mentioning the price tag and ignoring all the other poorly equipped trim levels.
It’s a disgrace that people who never thought buying a sports car/muscle car come out of woodwork to dump on American cars with absolutely ridiculous takes. It’s the same people also criticize auto makers for not sticking to prototype design elements and make them pedestrian. Now all of a sudden they want taller windows.
All of the above also applies to Camaro as well, one thing is sure if somebody criticizes Camaro or Corvette for poor visibility it says they have never in a sporty car before and they have no business to buy one. they’re simply bad or rookie drivers who in constant anxiety of trashing their cars if they can’t see every corner of the car.
I love my interior. I guess they could have put a L & R switch for each function but it’s a lot better than searching endlessly through a complicated screen. I got the all Burgandy interior and it knocks people out.
I don’t really care what Bloomberg says.
This article was wrote by the guy who will never be able to afford Corvette so he’s just jealous
Removing buttons and replacing with touch screen options SUCKS for drivers. We don’t want to search through touchscreen options we are trying to drive! Just let me mash a button and get back to driving.
I’ve never bought a GM
I’m technically a millennial
I’m not an old guy on his x’th GM bitter about tech, I work in the tech industry… but you cannot replace instant tactile response for no look operation.
You are right! I got my Vette a week ago and I have been reluctant to drive it because to many operations are on the programmable dash and touch screen. I am an early Gen X and Although all of these computer options sound cool I would rather just drive it. Front parking cameras are awesome if you can figure out how to turn them on while you’re trying to park. There is probably a voice command option if I can find a tutor to spend a day with me.
How does this have 41 comments?
EVERY opinion that comes out of Bloomberg is 180 degrees from the truth… Meaning the Corvette interior must be WAY better than it appears!
The car of the year is in my garage and it is many of the negatives that convinced me to put it there. I do hate the zoo like quality that the freedom-of-options make the interiors of some of them look like but this is American. We have more, “choice,” here, if you choose to call it that, than any nation on earth. My interior is all black; I’ve adjusted to the steering wheel and the row of buttons just fine. I agree that the quality of leather could be better, but I note that a lot of things could be a little better. On the other hand for an out the door price of about $63,000.00, you get a midengine V8 that can corner the daylights out of any road; an eight speed transmission that can be manually shifted [albeit by wire] or driven by a program that clearly had a lot of man-hours put into it; that goes faster than most owners will ever take it and that is comfortable enough to drive any set of paved roads right to the end of a tank of gas. The sound is spectacular [again, in the face of the politically and otherwise correct idea that we must go electric to save the planet] and although I’ve customized mine a bit, none of that is necessary to own and drive one of the greatest sports cars ever made. Let Bloomberg built a better car for the price…or for that matter, let Bloomberg build a car at any price. Watch America and the world, “keep voting with their feet,” as the customers keep lining up to buy this car!
As to the Mayor of Mexico and all criminals, don’t you understand that what goes around comes around?
Meanwhile, Hagerty adds the C8 to its hot list of Future Collector Cars. The allure of that potential was one of the reasons that I did not cry or complain, when I bought someone else’s configuration at a dealer mark up, when that person created a nice combination of a C8 for me to own and drive. In fact, during the Covid-19 lock-down of business and sales and showrooms, it took me 14 hours from the moment I saw the car on the Internet on April 12 to start the paper work on the car. At that, I couldn’t believe that several potential owners hadn’t long beat me to the punch. Yet another award for the C8 Corvette; likely makes it one of the most awarded initial vehicles of all time, although I really don’t know those stattistics. AF