Chevy has a long history of offering some pretty amazing sports cars, and now, we’re getting a glimpse of the future of Chevy performance with the following Chevy sports car interior rendering.
Recently posted to the GM Design Instagram feed (@generalmotorsdesign), this sketch was created by Jonathan Kong (@zi.kong), a Detroit-based designer. The rendering incorporates a variety of influences from the current Chevy performance lineup, including the eighth-generation Corvette C8, and the Chevy Camaro.
The dash, gauges, and infotainment layout are all tilted towards the driver, focusing everything on the hot seat in a fashion similar to the latest C8, with a wide driver’s information layout set on a horizontally oriented digital screen. The steering wheel is also squared-off along the top and bottom, another design characteristic of the C8 Corvette. However, as one may expect from a concept rendering, the design elements at play here are much more exaggerated than what can be found in the current production design, with a much flatter steering wheel and a much wider screen.
Notably, this particular Chevy sports car does not appear to be the Corvette, as indicated by the Chevy badge in the center of the steering wheel – typically, the Corvette would include the Crossed Flags badge, rather than a Bow Tie badge.
The other obvious Chevy sports car to point to is the Chevy Camaro. The center tunnel, for example, looks familiar, while the shifter appears to be a connected to a manual gearbox, rather than an automatic like the C8 Corvette. That said, this rendering is also unlikely to represent an upcoming Camaro cockpit, as the future of the nameplate is uncertain. A follow-up seventh-generation is currently not in development, while the sixth-gen Chevy Camaro is slated to sunset around 2023 as a 2024 model-year vehicle.
Regardless, it’s certainly nice to see GM thinking about sports car design, especially with a hypothetical manual gearbox.
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Toyota filed a patent for a EV manual transmission and clutch a few months back. I wouldn’t be surprised if GM and others did the same.
That’s interesting and made me laugh. Most enthusiasts that have to have a manual are probably the same people complaining that they’ll be forced into an EV because of Biden. Will putting a manual into an EV convince them to try an EV just for the manual?
Electric vehicles still suck and are a passing fad, no matter what type of transmission they have!
Biden can be blamed for pretty much everything, him and the dems, because the economy, gas prices, and pretty much everything in the US is in the pooper big time right now!
hahaha do you bump into things in daily life being as short sighted as you are?
There is a time and a place for everything. Eventually ev’s will probably become more popular, once charging and all of the problems associated with them are resolved. Forcing a new technology on the masses before infrastructure can support it is a recipe for disaster, in my opinion.
Please let GM, Ford, VW, Hyundai and Tesla know that they should stop spending billions building EV’s because a random internet guy thinks it’s all a Joe Biden conspiracy 😂.
skidmark, if you actually read my comment you might understand what I said. Perhaps you were too busy trolling the net to hear that last week Tesla and ERCOT advised customers not to charge their ev’s at certain times to avoid overloading the power grid. Maybe you didn’t read about the F150 ev that only made it 86 miles before needing to be charged. Perhaps you enjoy paying 6 dollars a gallon for gas. You would’ve also noticed that I didn’t mention your lord and savior joe “potatohead” biden. All I know is that the day he was installed , I bought gas for 1.69 a gallon, and my grocery and electric bills were each 100 dollars less per month. Your mom says your hotpockets are ready so turn off the computer and come upstairs.
Fingers crossed we get a simulated manual experience with EVs. It would be better than nothing. Plus that interior looks pretty damn good.
That interior is gorgeous!
Looks like something you would see for a Camaro.
Electric Camaro four door hatchback assembled in Mexico from Chinese components. The “shifter” is in place of a touch pad, to navigate through the menus on the 37 screens.
It’s possible, there was a YouTube video that came out last year showing an individual taking a tour into a room with gm’s future EV Lineup, while the focus was primarily on the Hummer EV, in the background was a near blurred out silhouette of a Camaro-like profile that hinted the continued existence of the car itself, with gm slowly winding down on the majority of it’s cars, the Camaro is the only rendering that’s making sense in this photo.
They(Chevorlet via GM) “might be” up to something but then again still, I won’t hold my breath anytime soon. Also everyone need to remember when the now C8 was only naysayer’s rumor some years back…
2024 Berreta GTZ!!!! ; -)
No, no Celebrity Eurosport….
I believe either the Chevy EV sedan, new Camaro or just maybe an Alpha based Chevelle..
Personally I’d like their sports car to be more in the Monte Carlo vein, which lost it’s way (for as models) in the later years.
For SS**
Save the manual!
I’m hoping this is NOT the future interior of the C8 Corvette, I got use to the all the HVAC controls in what I call the “Waterfall” separating the driver and passenger. My 2 cents
I think not. The hood silhouetted in the rendering looks like a Camaro.
Updated Current Camaro interior?
Don’t like it at all. Too tight fitting. Would be a problem for those that have Claustrophobia.
And the cup holder are in a terrible location for both the driver and the passenger.
That looks like a Camaro interior for sure
Recaptures curved dash design of the second-generation Camaro.
The hood seems to indicate a cowl induction type hump too.
Attractive design, but seems simply a design exercise, rather than a car specific design…a few immediate thoughts:
– what are the red straps for coming from the seat bottoms?
– the hood sure looks “Camaro” to me
– I hope we can return to round steering wheels soon
– [yelling at passenger] “ stop elbowing my drink!”
– I guess Lamborghini never patented that starter button cover…I think it’s gimmicky on any car
Do Not Use the old Studebaker shifter knob everyone is going to…….AWFUL!!!!!!!!! Keep the console Stick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Finally brining back a sporty Monte Carlo?
GM, you are fools not to build upon the Camaro nameplate. The brand is icononic and has a huge goodwill following. It’s part of American Pop culture.
Put your thinking caps on and redevelop this car. The Stang has had it’s up and down years.
GM, you have the brainpower. Just channel and focus it. If you need help, let me know and my car docents and yours truly will be glad to assist gratis.
Our son has a late model Camaro and loves it.
Iconoclastic can win. Aping trends, or C8 design is a mistake.
2nd gen is my least favorite.
Ehdit0r:
EV manual transmission and clutch. ??? That is insane.
You get maximum electric motor torque and speed with a controller just like on electric industrial drives and railroad locomotives. A computer sequences the optimum motor performance. Not a foot romping on a clutch pedal and hand on a gearshift. Also the electric motor is silent.
GM suggest you go to Allen-Bradley for your electric motor controller for an optimum unit. Don’t reinvent the wheel in this area. A-B is the go to vendor for electric motor controllers big or small. You will be one step ahead of Tesla and the rest of the pack.