The C8 Corvette provides a very healthy combination of power, style and relative affordability. Sometimes, this blend of attributes can fall into the hands of an inexperienced driver, and result in unlucky (and cringy) mishaps. Unfortunately, one of these accidents recently happened to this C8 Stingray.
In a recent Instagram post, we find a C8 driver attempting to do donuts in the middle of an empty intersection. Revving up the engine, the tail of the mid-engined Vette whipped around and smacked the curb, producing a horrifying result. The driver attempts to leave the scene but the passenger-side rear wheel has its toe angle completely destroyed. It looks as though the rear end links, among other suspension pieces, are broken and otherwise useless.
In addition to the angle of the wheel, the rim appears to be bent and warped beyond repair. Luckily, it doesn’t appear that any of the curious observers were hurt as a result of this incident.
These types of misfortunes don’t seem to be out of the norm for the C8 Corvette. GM Authority has covered Chevy Corvette accidents for some time now, with a few notable examples. These include a high-speed crash involving a C8 and Toyota Supra, a Lime Green Corvette that was split in half, and a completely disfigured C8 that looked like it fell off a cliff.
This should be a given, but we’ll say it regardless: NEVER race or mess around on public roads. Leave the high speed, high risk antics for the track.
As a reminder, the 2023 Corvette C8 Stingray is powered by the naturally aspirated 6.2L V8 LT2 gasoline engine, with output rated at 490 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque, or 495 horsepower and 475 pound-feet of torque when equipped with the optional dual-mode, high-performance exhaust system.
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Under the skin, the C8 rides on the GM Y2 platform, while production takes place exclusively at the GM Bowling Green plant in Kentucky.
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at owners school at Mountain Springs. lesson on traction control button:
Traction control Button, – leave it on. never turn it off.
end of lesson.
no joke.
although we did get skid pad practice on water, no button on.
I think the point was to break traction and drift. He just needed more room and brains.
Good advice but it isn’t Mountain Springs. It is the Ron Fellows School at Spring Mountain Motorsports Park.
No @ss stunt
Actually it looks like he broke his rear toe-link…rear axles don’t “Bend”.
Dumb
More money than brains. A lot of that going around in car land.
I don’t think he has money. He has payments. Lots and lots of payments.
Not only in car land. Politics also.
Looks like a public street, how about reckless driving and police impound? And maybe a dumb@ss award to boot!
Looks like he hopped or ran over that curb by the pedestrian area. That would be why the parts failed
As they say. “You can’t fix stupid!!
idiot
What a shame… shame, shame, shame
Must have been a former Mustang owner.
no, the mustang would have ran over the crowd as well.
His Corvett can now crab walk.
Stupid driver, stupid headline. Not any fault of the C8 design or durability.
Fault of the immature, unskilled, stupid driver.
I weep for the future. Maybe vette was stolen?
Exactly, I was just waiting for a ford or dodgetard to come commenting, talking bad about the Corvette. If that was the case, I would absolutely roast the ford and dodgetard. And Chevy Camaro, and Corvette beats the discustang, and the stupid “scat pack” crap. If you want a real, American muscle car, that is the fastest, durable, and most hp, get a Camaro or Corvette. Chevy is the best!
this is what happens when you put a supercar in the hands of a demographic that doesn’t have the experience or skill necessary to drive this car, especially if they’re all raised on cars with seemingly endless driver aids
My heart hurts for that Vette. Hope that sap suckered has fun getting it repaired.
His dad’s gonna be maddddd.
Wow at the number of people making fun of the driver but don’t know the difference between a donut and a drift. An yes you can bend a axle. It’s mild steel not powered metal!
If you don’t know how to drive it don’t buy it.
Fools just can’t do cool!
Ugg.. A drift and a donut are two different things.. Not going to drift a rear engine car. I assume your editor changed that headline.
I’m really surprised the writer of this automotive article thinks he bent the rear axle. That’s more like a broken control arm.