C8 Corvette Drives On Sandy Beach, Obviously Gets Stuck: Video
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On the list of Things Not To Do With Your Brand-New Sports Car, driving into deep sand at the beach has to be pretty high up there. Unfortunately, it looks like the owner of this particular C8 Corvette never got the memo, as evidenced by the following video.
Recently posted online by YouTube user D’Z Ridez, this video was captured in Galveston, Texas, per the video description. The video opens with a beach scene, where we see a new C8 Corvette pop into frame and promptly sink into the sandy ground. The driver tries to gun it, but that only gets the sports car more stuck as the rear tires endlessly spin and dig two nice big holes.
As the camera pans over, we see several other vehicles that look very stuck, including a Ford F-150 pickup. To add to the absurdity of the scene, what sounds like an ice cream truck jingle can be heard playing in the background.
Hilariously, a Chrysler Pacifica van is seen around the 1-minute, 20-second mark effortlessly cruising across the sand, almost taunting all the vehicles stuck and spinning their wheels.
We then cut back to the C8 Corvette, which is seen fitted with a tow strap wrapped around one of the front wheels in yet another not-so-brilliant solution to the situation at hand. The strap is wrapped around one of the C8 Corvette’s wheel spokes and connected to a tow vehicle up front.
You can probably see where this is going. The tow vehicle starts to pull the C8 Corvette gingerly, then decides to gun it, spraying the sports car with sand. Luckily, it doesn’t take long before the poor Chevy is finally free.
To note, while the mid-engine design does provide loads of traction at the track, the new layout does not make the C8 Corvette a good choice for off-roading. For something like that, you’re gonna need our Chevy Corvette Trail Boss. Just saying.
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Ah man!… I was going to take my C8 mudding, we’ll there goes my weekend. 😉
Must look awesome on top of them tractor tires…
Another sink hole!!WTF
Ya think the ‘driver’ learned that Corvettes are NOT off road vehicles?
DUH.
The morons that downvoted my statement of opinion and common sense are even dumber than the owner of the new C8 that was stuck in the sand.
Clearly no one with any brains to be found here, but also not too many beautiful people to be found either…Galveston is officially off my future-destination-list for the foreseeable future.
Here, the owner of a Chrysler minivan is the one to envy, the more powerfully-built gals do the car-pushing while the guys provide their best thought-leadership, and this Corvette owner obviously refuses to install his tow hook in favor of tow damage to the steering, wheel & paint…
The ice cream truck jingle is the perfect soundtrack for all of this glorious humanity, wonderfully captured in portrait-phone-video.
It was Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer.” I was certainly entertained by this redneck rescue.
You know some Pacifica/Voyagers come in awd.
As for the Vette driver, probably got confused thinking it’s a road after taking arthritis medication earlier while drinking at the beach bar 🙂😏🙂.
Priceless!
Another J Lo exclusive!
What an idiot!
GM should recall that C8 – and not return it. Send the buyer a refund.
Maybe they should have just sprinkled sand in front of the wheels !
LOLOLOLOL, where did all of these idiots come from? Must be Crazyfornia, right? And who in their right mind would jerk a new Corvette out of the sand by its front wheel?
Galveston Texas like the article clearly states
Calling people idiots but not understanding what you just read?? hmmm irony can be quite ironic
pot calling the kettle black more like
What ????
What ???
Wow, that’s a lot of dumb in one picture!
Can’t imagine ever getting my C8 in this situation, but at least I carry a tow hook which would have made the pull out more car friendly. You can’t fix stupid.
Did anyone get ice cream ???
Better get the 4WD option next time!
If you’re so rich, why ain’t you smart?
I think you mean more smartified?? 😉
But seriously I kind of thought the same, how can a person who can afford to buy a new C8 be so stupid???
It doesn’t make any sense it looks like a fully optioned over $100,000 car ?????
It’s daddy’s car
Oh Wow:
When God was providing brains, these people thought he said trains and got into the wrong line.
Unfortunately these people do walk among us.
Yeah, they already had trains so they held the door for everyone else!
This reminds me of my tanks getting stuck in the Ukrainian mud.
Or since Corvette was named after a ship…perhaps it also reminds you of your warship stuck in the sand at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Stupid is as stupid does
I think it makes sense it happened in Texas……..
here is the sound of the new C8 owner picking up his new C8 at the dealership
WOOOOWEEEEEE got me a g’damned new vette gotta go out and try it WOOOOOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEE
WOOOOOTWOOOOOOOOTWOOOOT. remember the damn ALAMO. WOOOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEE
Should have ordered the little known and rarely ordered option code VTOL. The Vertical Take Off and Landing feature.
Yeh the Mach V versions (if this makes sense to you, you are officially dated)
I like the hefty chick…