First arriving for the 2020 model year, the eighth-generation C8 Corvette was a watershed moment for the nameplate, introducing, among other things, a brand-new mid-engine layout. In the years since, GM has introduced a few relatively small changes to the C8, as well as a few special edition models and the new go-faster C8 Z06. However, we want to know – what would you like to see changed on the C8 Corvette?
Earlier this month, visualizer images of the upcoming 2024 C8 Corvette E-Ray leaked onto the web, giving us an early look at what the hybrid model would offer in terms of exterior styling and interior design. Although the E-Ray will indeed offer new paint colors and interior colorways, the exterior widebody design is closely related to that of C8 Corvette Z06, while the interior is quite familiar as well. As such, the leak would seem to confirm that the C8 Corvette will not receive a mid-cycle refresh prior to the introduction of the 2025 model year.
The question, then is this – when it does finally get a refresh, what should the updated C8 Corvette bring to the table? Perhaps updates to the exterior design? What about the interior? Would better seats be a good change? More safety features?
If it’s more performance that you’re after, Chevy would certainly appear to have that covered. After all, the C8 Corvette Z06 already throws down with 670 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque thanks to the naturally aspirated 5.5L V8 LT6 gasoline engine, besting the C8 Corvette Stingray’s 490-horsepower naturally aspirated 6.2L V8 LT2 gasoline engine by a considerable margin. Then there’s the E-Ray, which is expected to dole out 600 all-wheel drive horsepower, or the C8 Corvette ZR1, which will throw forced induction into the mix for about 850 horsepower, or the C8 Corvette Zora, which is expected to take the hybrid powertrain up to 1,000 horsepower.
Nevertheless, some folks are always wanting more. So then, let us know what changes you want to see for the C8 Corvette, whatever they may be, by posting in the comments, and remember to subscribe to GM Authority for more mid-engine Corvette news, Corvette C8 news, Chevy news, and around-the-clock GM news coverage.
Comments
LESS Money, Cost to own one!!! I’ve had both C-3 C-4 But got a new Camaro Vert. for half the price. More fun and nobody steals them.
Put grab bar on passenger side
Make the front lift available on all models
Manual transmission and lower price.
Technically it has a manual transmission, tell us which year and model you own now of the C8, We can give you advice on how to operate the manual transmission. I never need or want a clutch pedal ever again.
Technically or not, it still doesn’t have a third pedal . In my 78 years of life, a manual has a manually operated clutch. An automatic that you index into “gears” is just not the same. I have that feature on my newer Malibu and it is not the same.
Lower prices and a manual transmission.A Corvette needs to driven by the driver inputs to a clutch and shifter.Nothing beats a 3 pedal sports car,period!!This is why I love my c4 6 speed convertible.
Bill
1. Center exhaust outlets as the Z06
2. Elimante the center stack switches
3. Side air intakes to big
4. More H.P for the stingray
Lower price and nicer metallic colors examples. Forrest Green or Blue Green Metallic
The pastel solid colors make it look cheap
To all of you looking for a lower price – buy a Camaro ZL1! I don’t see potential Ferrari or Lambo buyers asking for a lower price so why do we? It is an amazing car at an amazing price already. If you want a car with amazing performance at a lower price point Chevrolet has the Camaro range and they have an extra set of seats in the rear.
It is an amazing car and amazing price if you could just get one and get one at MSRP!! Available to the average person with a good job? Wasn’t that the initial reveal?
I bought mine last week at MSRP. Good dealers do that.
A manual transmission is a theft deterrent . My son has an STI; he got attacked by two people to try to steal his car. They did not steal the car because they could not drive a stick shift.
About the standard stick shift:
That is hilariously true! I love it!!
Get rid of the busy tail light design and put in simple straight lenses across the rear. One could be for brake lights and another for sequential turn signals. Exhausts were good for the C7 and should be an option for the C8.
Last 2 times I took car for tire rotation the shop had to find person who could drive it. Even mechanics now a day can’t drive manuals.
Buy a Camaro
Change that ugly boomerang side air intake and make it one piece and get rid of the black.
Order it in body color
Variable ride height front and back.
Lower the price, change the front grille and redo the center console.
Lose those joke(s) of a tail light.
Put a really good stereo in. You seem to think number of speakers is better. No, four good ones and ample RMS power is the key.
it has subwoofers in the doors, and I admit, I had trouble getting the sound right at first, but after changing some settings , I was able to get the right sound, Bass, Balance, Volume. I would not change a thing, but at first, I was disappointed.
Curious, what are your settings?
And more than one USB. My 2018 Silverado has at least 5.
“my ability to own one.” 😕
What I would like too see is just make the dam thing available and stop all the nonsense and BS. Oh and a manual transmission.
Seats Need More Shoulder Room
The seat back is too narrow and hits me in the middle of my shoulder blades. This is with the seat back adjusted as wide as it will go. This adjustment adds very little extra room. Chevy please make the seat back wider so I can buy a new C8!!!
Seat bottom bolsters are too tight as well.
Our Corvette Club has several owners who placed orders at dealers and got cars delivered, at MSRP. I waited one year. Lately, it is about 4 months. But I met one guy who just kept calling dealers, he did not understand, placing an order. He just kept hunting.
i bought a c8 in 2020; best Vette and best car i have ever owned and that includes Mercedes; five other Vettes; Toyota . I have no complaints and feel very fortunate. I don’t need a track car of a hybrid
I am replying to this post cause i cant generate my own….I traded in my C6 to buy a C8. (It barely covered the cost of the hubcaps). I got a 2022 z51 HTC. and I paid 3K over list. WORTH EVERY PENNY!!! Other than the flag logo, there is NOTHING reminiscent of the front engine models. I love the car. But there are a few things I’d change…the first thing is the side row of buttons – it looks cool, but is unnecessary, as all the functions can be done from the nav screen. And its busy to look at when you’re actually driving. The other thing is the ability to put the top UP with the fob. Currently you can put the top down…but if you’re parked outside and it starts to rain, it would be nice to be able to use the fob to put up the top instead of having to run to the car, get in, turn it on, and then put up the top. The last thing is the TURN SIGNAL….it is really loud. LOL. (I may be able to fix that volume, need to look it up).
YES, the top up on the fob!
You can’t put the top up with the fob? Only lower it?
That doesn’t make any sense.
Mods4cars now has a fob upgrade to raise and lower the top…
Make the engine and transmission accessible while still in the car.
I would love to see the C8 coupe offered with rear split window. I saw this on a post and it looks really good.
Certainly would be a nod to the past. There are already numerous complaints about visibility out the back, this would be an additional impediment for those of us who find the rear camera mirror distracting. I’ve seen sticker kits to add this feature for those who like the look and wouldn’t mind the loss of visibility.
There is not a problem looking out the back the rearview mirror is a camera on the roof, unless you cheap out and order the LT1 package it does now come with the camera.
It’s a steal at the price. I’ve had 1 C4 & 2-C5s and the C8 is nothing like them, not in the sale league. A Z06 is higher than I hoped but still a steal at the price.
Yes but the problem is you can’t get one so it could be free but if you can’t get it what’s the sense?
Just lower the console wall.
The passenger seat is like an Indy car tub with no wheel or gauges.
I agree! Get rid of the wall!, and how about changing that ugly back end?
I don’t know if this is possible but a way to still see the engine in convertible format.
Agree….that’s the main reason I got a coupe. Seeing the motor is awesome!
Manual transmission.
Center exhaust outlet as the Z06.
It has a manual transmission, on par with Porsche, Ferrari, and every modern car. Time to move into the present, leave the past behind.
Aleady! Thank you! Come on people! You want manuals? They’re all 100% now! You can’t get an automatic! What do you want, a rock crusher?
What people who were born after people who grew up with manual transmissions (gas and clutch) don’t understand, is that shifting gears with a stick in the center provides a driving pleasure that can’t be extracted or replaced by tapping on a + or – with both hands on the wheel. In and out of curves, up and down inclines and declines, down shifting as you break your speed, conditioning each hand and both feet to do a dance–to work in harmony is appealing to many. Why? Why is why Porsche still employs a manual. Americans. Perhaps the Germans are more aware, that for some Americans the past, if it provides joy and excitement, is not the past.
That’s the young speaking of paddle shifting as exciting. Old skool folk know better and have experienced better.
its more the other way around – I am old and happy that the manual has gone the way of the dodo bird. And the bottom line is that the Europeans have all pitched their manuals in to the dustbin because cars with mucho torque do not need a manual. Only gasoline-sipping and diesel-sipping under 2.0 litre engines need manuals which is why they are still popular principally in Italy, Spain and France and nowhere else.
Buy a motorcycle. It engages all your limbs, all your senses.
Lower Cost is one issue.
The C8 needs a chrome wheel option.
Get rid of the stacked switches on the passenger side of the console.
Better fit and finish
Ok why is it that only certain American ‘drivers’ continue to want manual transmissions when all the European manufacturers have dropped them from their ranges? We don’t even live in a country with a topography that needs manual transmissions. You can understand the need/desire for a manual in Switzerland, Austria, the Amalfi coast road, the Costa Brava etc etc but in Kansas? And no, manual transmissions are gone for good and rightly so….. they are tedious and a pain to drive outside of some very limited circumstances that really are not that diffused.
This conversation about manuals reminds me of the same conversation we all had a few years back during the transition from the C5 to the C6 where the old timers complained about missing the pop up headlights. Dont hear that complaint anymore – maybe because those old timers arent around anymore – the same will happen with this manual transmission complaint – the people that equate manual transmission with the best years of their lives will eventually pass from the scene and the complaint will move on to analog dashboards vs fully digital dashboards – as in remember when the dials where proper dials…….
I absolutely love my ’22 Z51 torch red coupe. 2 very ticky tack changes: Make the frunk a motorized close like the trunk (I always get finger/hand prints when i close it) and make the rear glass lift so I can clean it more easily.
Get rid of the Great Wall that is full of buttons and unsafe to use while driving.
rear/tail lights.
YES! This!
Would love, at least, to have the Z06/07 version have clear taillights like the C7’s.
Back half of the car is a visual disaster. Front half of the C8 looks great. See Ferrari 458, 488, Tributo, 812, McLaren 720S, Ford GT, etc. for inspiration and improvement. Talk to Chip Foose. Whatever. Almost anything GM Design would do should improve the aesthetics of the rear of the car.
Our C8 was tboned in August of 2022. We can drive the car although replacement exterior body parts are nonexistent. And red mist paint is not available for touchup.
Couldn’t agree more! Awesome car until you see the rear end styling.
Funny, I’m the total opposite. I love the back half & think the front half looks soooo dated! I like the front end of the Camaro’s better!
Remove the wall of HVAC buttons. Also, there’s something about the “hood” (frunk-lid) that isn’t quite right. Perhaps too many creases?
Send the design team to study at Ferrari and McClaren. Then rid the C8 of its’s ugly rear quarters and butt.
Center exhaust pipes similar to new z06 along with clear engine cover on the HTC
Simply ramp up production I believe the original plan was to build about 40,000 Vehicles a year that would balance the market out keep the car affordable and GM’s profit up win win company I had planned on buying a C8 to compliment my C6 Z06 but now I think buying another Corvette I may buy a used ZR1 or another brand I think many of us have got disgusted with the price gouging I know I have I told them not on my pocket when they were trying to make $40,000 total out of me on a deal
Could not agree more!!!
Ferrari and McClaren are good choices…I’d add Lotus to the list based on their latest models. Either send them to study there or just hire from there. Instead, they took inspiration form the designer of the last Honda Civic Si.
Porsche knows how to not screw up a design while modernizing.
It’s painful to even say, but Kia/Hyundai are doing a much better design job lately…
The general consensus is that the rear is ugly and yes I kind of agree that the rear is too complicated and could be much smoother looking. But then it also means that we should follow Ferrari and get rid of the spoilers – which furthermore outside of track days have no use in US driving conditions. 20 years ago Ferrari made the conscious and correct decision to eliminate all spoilers and in fact if you look at their cars that notwithstanding can reach speeds of 340-350 kph do not have spoilers. Lets face it – spoilers are tacky and ruin the look of any car. So lets get rid of spoilers on Corvettes.
I agree frank, this is the ugliest Corvette to date…GM is trying so hard to make the Vette look like a European sports car, it’s pathetic!…the C2 is the best looking Corvette EVER!! Quit trying to copy those cars overseas and wasting all that R&D $$$ on a car that was once an American treasure!…and the talk of making it a supersonic golf cart???…please, go back to what got you a stud sports car…AND make it more affordable!!
I agree KT, and how about just making the dam thing and for MSRP. Make the Stingray readily available before you starting hyping other variants. This whole C8 rollout is getting to be more of a joke by the day!
Sorry, can’t agree with you negative sayers.
Those of us who own C8’s I believe are very
happy with them.
GM did a great job on these.
Hi KT It is not that GM is trying to make the Corvette look like a European sports car – it is simply that when you lay down the specifications for what we want the car to accomplish then it become a mid-engined sports car that other manufacturers have been building for many decades. It is like asking why do all weight lifters have the same body shape and why do all swimmers have an entirely different body shape? Because it is the sport that dictates the design. It is exactly the same with sports cars. High speeds on European highways and fast running on Alpine switchbacks dictate a certain design language. Even though we do not, sadly, have these road conditions in the US, we have thousands of eager car buyers who want the cars that can handle these demanding road conditions even if all we do is go to ‘cars & coffee’ events. So GM correctly decided that this high margin high prestige market was where it wants to play. Furthermore it gives them the opportunity to finally be able to sell Corvettes in decent numbers around the world in RHD and LHD markets. Why should Porsche get all the fun and recognition? And remember that it was Corvette’s original engineer and creator, Zora Arkus-Duntov, who desperately wanted GM to build a mid-engined sports car. So I would not call it pathetic KT, I would call belated genius!
Stuff a 632 and tub the rear.
The tires are already nearly 14inch wide, how much wider do you want?
Once again the width is dictated by the engineering demands imposed by speed, acceleration and braking. So at 345 mm wide in the rear they appear to be appropriate. Perhaps the Zora’s will be even wider but the width is driven, no pun intended, by the requirements not by the visual desires of the poseurs.
Make the seats more comfortable like the Camaro. Also, make the gas pedal softer (not so stiff) just like the Camaro for quicker acceleration. The great wall of buttons are great, so please don’t change them.
All the Corvettes need higher top speeds – always above 300 kph and up to 340 kph for the Z06 and the future Zora. Of course not relevant in the US except for bragging rights but very relevant in Europe where we can use these top speeds. It is a bit ridiculous and embarrassing that a 2019 Cadillac CTS-V has a higher top speed (320 kph) than any C8 Corvette variant.
The Z06 already has a top speed of 314kph, which is 20kph more than the standard Stingray. There are already YouTube videos showing the Z06 to be quicker than the European competition. Quick and fast are two separate things. Sustained fast, top speed driving isn’t a thing in the United States unless you are out in the desert in the middle of the night [and don’t get caught]. Being quick is what matters in the United States, and the Z06 easily matches the Europeans in quickness at a price they could never match.
Exactly – as someone who drives these cars in Europe I exactly know the difference between ‘quick’ and ‘top speed’. In Europe quick is important but top speed is essential. A Z06 still trails my 2019 CTS-V and that is the main reason I am waiting for the Zora to come out in European spec. I would be embarrassed to be passed on a German highway by a Bentley GT going 325 kph – never mind a Lamborghini or Ferrari. And yes we engage in sustained top speed in Germany where we will drain the teeny weeny gasoline tank in 90 or so minutes. Acceleration is important but all the metrics that decide automotive prestige around the world start with top speed.
Tell us you don’t actually drive on the autobahn without actually telling us. Sitting there boasting like it is an empty top speed fest there. The only place in all of Europe you hit the top speed is the Autobahn, not Europe, only Germany.
Acceleration is more important to most and 95% of the world, not top speed. That speaks a bunch of the kind of person you are if you are offended that a $400k autobahn monster passes you 10kph more and you were a half mile ahead on the race to 300kph.
99.98% of the people in this world don’t live where they can legally hit the top speed and 99.95% never will attempt it legally or illegally. Not to mention even living near the autobahn the chance of you finding a traffic free spot to run a few miles WOT to hit is a are getting slimmer and slimmer.
So go ahead and talk like that is all you do and be offended when a 700hp coupe creeps past you and someone down votes your post, most people can’t help but laugh your posts.
Carry on, pip pip, cheerio!
No you are right. I live in Italy which is one country away from Germany (I have to take the Brenner Pass in Italy up through a sliver of Austria until I get into Germany around the area where Stever McQueen filmed the GREAT ESCAPE). As I get my V-series Cadillacs repaired, tuned and updated by Kramm in Berlin I take any excuse that I can to drive to and through Germany. The best highway for top speed driving is the 3-laner between Berlin and Leipzig and there are ample opportunities to drive at or near the top speeds of Corvette and V-series Cadillacs. I do not even own a car at my apartment in Miami – I walk or rent because driving one of these cars in the US makes no sense as Enzo Ferrari famously said about Americans and his brand – he never understood why they bought them since they could never properly drive them. But since Americans seem to be buying all kinds of very expensive sports cars without being able to properly use them then must be buying them to pose in them and therefore bragging rights about the top speed is part of the appeal – or am I missing something here? So you go ahead and pose and I will go ahead and drive and we call it a day. Arrivederci.
and if you still have a hard time believing me Commonsense look up my monniker on Cadillac Forums and you will see photos of all 6 of my Cadillacs in various European settings. A presto
It seems I have bruised some egos on this posting – sorry guys.
Geez, I guess every country has its clowns.
its more the other way around – I am old and happy that the manual has gone the way of the dodo bird. And the bottom line is that the Europeans have all pitched their manuals in to the dustbin because cars with mucho torque do not need a manual. Only gasoline-sipping and diesel-sipping under 2.0 litre engines need manuals which is why they are still popular principally in Italy, Spain and France and nowhere else.
Absolutely we Americans are very clownish – look at the way we drive! WHen we are not clowns behind the wheel we are going off the road. Its a shame John but glad you agree.
1. Have the ability to view the rear camera(s) on the video display while driving forward.
2. Configurable launch control.
2. E-Ray based on leaked visualizer:
a. More wheel options, including bright silver painted carbon fiber wheels
b. Ability to select colors for the convertible top, nacelles, wishbone, etc. that are different from the body color (essentially the same body color/accent options as offered for the Z06).
I figured out how to use the back up camera when driving forward. And found it distracting, but it does work.
Check out the forums. Basically, you select the camera when in drive either while stopped, maybe while driving.
As for Launch control, I found it in the 2023 owners manual, and was disappointed that it appears customizalbe launch is only in the Z06.
In the StingRay it is a set RPM.
I can’t wait to find this for my 2021.
Yes, thank you for the reply regarding the back-up camera, but the camera on my 2020 convertible turns off at around 8 mph. I would like to use it in some instances as the rear-view mirror due to its wide-angle view, particularly when merging onto roads that are not perfectly parallel to the merging lane. Additionally, the rear-view mirror/display is a little awkward for me due to my bifocal glasses, whereas the large infotainment display is much easier for me to view.
Yet again, we are all showing our age with these comments. Thoopsdad can’t see properly and wants a video on his large infotainment display – that will never distract him! Others somehow are obsessed with the difficulty in reaching their mobile phones while they are charging. If you cannot reach around with your left arm to pull the phone out of the charging slot between the seats maybe you should not be driving a sports car – Buick SUV has your name on it. We are supposed to be driving – not fixating on fiddling with our cellphones!!! And that is why the car comes with CarPlay so you don’t have to touch your phone and if it is really such an issue charge the phone before climbing into the car. Really guys – you can understand why GM will largely ignore your criticisms – we are dying off and they need to focus on much younger drivers with the money to spend. And they look at what this cohort is driving and so have to make a sports car that meets that target market. Young drivers, I gather, love the center stack and even though I am 61 I love it too. Desirable cars need quirks and this is a classic design quirk. If this is too hard for some of you then as mentioned Buick or Toyota or Lexus will make something much more comfortable.
Hi HoopsDad The Z06 and Stingray offer the option of selecting the same color for the blacked out cladding that is on the main body of the car. So if you ordered a red car you can order (for a price) red instead of black for the nacelles. We certainly do not want to offer customers the ability to select a color that is different than the main color because many buyers don’t have good taste and would start to order color combos that would damage the brand image – like a white car with orange nacelles/wishbone. That is why GM already restricts certain color combinations for the interior and exterior. The only color, rightly, that is offered in the interior that can be paired with any exterior color is black. And that makes sense.
Hi HoopsDad
1. I do hope you realize that watching your rear camera on the main screen while driving is a real safety no-no even in a country with anarchic driving conditions?
2. I agree with you on the E-Ray
3. I agree with you on the wheel options expansion inc a silver painted carbon wheel option – black wheels look small on brightly colored cars
4. As mentioned previously this option works only to put on the same color as the body color. Otherwise buyers would start to choose all kinds of crazy combinations and that would cheapen the brand immediately.
Add an option for the convertible roof to be see thru
Lock button on HVAC column. Wind screen on front radiator.
Here’s a unique idea, make it look like a Corvette! Instead of a Ferrari.
Personally I think it has plenty of Corvette styling queues. We’ve been teased with mid-engined ‘vette concept cars since I can remember in the early sixties. The more rounded lines of the XP-880/Astro II are more to my aesthetic taste but is even less “Corvette like” than the production version. I saw the production announcement in late 2019, was so excited and ordered one. I was able to pick up my ’21 at Bowling Green.
It is not perfect, but it is the best car I’ve ever driven.
Hi Bob What an original comment! Let’s make it look, instead, like a McLaren! Oh it already does. So maybe the issue is elsewhere. Maybe if you understand why Ferraris, McLarens and other mid-engined sports cars look similar has to do with the chassis dynamics of these cars in Europe – Europe and principally Germany, France, Italy and the UK are the arbiters of world-class automotive design because their roads and culture have led their engineers and designers to design their cars to conform to this topgraphy. We don’t have this topography in the US and so the first 6-7 generations of Corvettes conformed to our topography. However when GM finally realised that Zora Arkus-Duntov, the European-born chief engineer of the Corvette program was actually correct when he insisted on a mid-engine design, 70 years late, we have finally gotten the C8. GM also realised that if rich young Americans were buying all these mid-engined sports cars and paying top dollar to do so GM had to follow inevitably in the steps of the Europeans. It did this with the V-series Cadillacs and it is doing this with the Corvette sub-brand which is becoming a brand of its own. What can I say other than, ‘better late than never’. So as I have said a few times in the column if you want those chassis dynamics and the lower price that accompanies it then by a Camaro ZL1.
Install wind screens in front of the front radiators.
Less weight for the c8 zr1 3400 pounds 👍👍
How about a manual transmission?
1, eliminate the color override fee – if I want the adr red you can tell me its not recommend without screwing me for $600 or come up with an interior color closer to red mist metallic 2, offer chrome wheels and unpainted aluminum wheels 3. do a valid clamp down on dealers charging $100K over list instead of an imaginary naughty naughty 4. Redesign mounts for the spoilers so they can be installed or interchanged without tearing the back end of the car apart 5. provide filler tubes so oil and and transmission fluids can be added without tearing the car apart 6. Corvette Concierge is a joke esp the Canadian version – either improve the service or fire the bastards and give theuy pay to Shane at the NCM – he does all their work anyway
Checking and filling the oil is basic. There is a traditional dipstick and oil filler cap right on top. In the convertible, there is a simple cover over them that takes 5 seconds to remove. The transmission, however, is a whole other story.
1. Remove that hideous HVAC cabin separator. Simplify.
2. Redesign that rear end – too much going on.
More HP for the Stingray, at least 550hp and some more torque, somewhere in the neighborhood 450-500!!!
Jim B
Eliminate the nacelle on roadsters with the top down to make it look like a roadster. Rear far too busy for my taste. I have had a coupe and a roadster.Iam not crazy about how either look but after owning 22 Corvettes, it really is a hell of a car!
You censored me??
What happened to your 1st amendment? was it amended???
Smooth out the styling, far too many creases and angles, and reduce the size of those air intakes and merge them into the overall design. They stick out too far. Give the front view some styling. It’s just three big holes. Finally, clean up that grossly overstyled rear. It looks like every designer in the place got their ideas in, no cohesive look. Finally, intro a lower priced variant. The prices are rising out of sight.
Relocate the wireless phone charger. You need to be a contortionist to get the phone in or out.
I agree that the current location is awkward and I forget the phone in the car all the time, but where else could it go?
If you set up apple play or android auto, you can run the phone from the infotainment screen anyway.
Adaptive cruise for this old man. I have it in my other GM cars and love it.
I completely didn’t notice that there is no adaptive cruise option, yes, this should be added.
RESTYLE the whole car—needs to be smaller — lengthen the front end–shorten the back end—-steal some c7 styling cues– car is getting way too big —make front trunk bigger–eliminate rear trunk–begin the new styling from there
This would require significant rearrangement of the mechanics. The distance from the seat to the rear axle is set by the length of the engine. The axles exit the transmission at the engine transmission interface. The transmission shafts and housing extend aft under the trunk floor. Removing the trunk would allow the aft end to be narrower, but not much shorter while leaving a lot of unused volume, cutting the trunk volume by 2/3rds.
To do what you describe the whole architecture would require revision; transverse engine/transmission?
All this to camouflage the mid-engineness of this car?
I would love to see GM grow a pair, and not turn the Corvette into a damn SUV!
Yeah, I am totally shocked that there aren’t dozens of comments about the Vette needing a rear seat, more cargo space, and higher ground clearance. The big brains at GM *know* that’s what we really want.
Safety First-
Make the rear facing camera available on all the models. Not seeing the blind spot is asking for trouble.
install the front radiator guards as standard equipment.
Do these basics first!
Absolutely!!!
If the side mirrors are set correctly the blind spots are not an issue. The warning lights on the mirrors are good reality checks. The only time I use the camera is in parking lots or backing up.
Get rid of that stupid black moulding at the side air intakes and make it body color. Just because Audi did it with the R8 doesn’t mean it’s a good idea or even attractive.
I agree – that black moulding looks cheezy. We all appreciate that it is an option to make it body colored – how about switching it around. Make it an option to make it black and make the moulding the same color as the body as standard.
There is a body color trim option for everything that is black on the car.
The Car is fine as is. Just make the damn thing available. Who is to blame for the bs? Dealers, flippers, GM or all of the above. I talk to existing Corvette owners of the C5 C6 and C7 with paid deposits at dealerships with lengthy lists and they don’t even get responses for their calls, emails, or texts . Enough already !
In my Silverado when I start the truck on a cold day, the Heated Steering Wheel and Seats come on automatically, I am surprised this is not a standard feature in a Corvette.
I also agree with others posting here, redesign the rear of the car to look less rectangular/flat.
To me, it just seems like Corvettes should have radiator shields already in place since the design is so vulnerable to highway rocks and debris.
Steering wheel and seat heat does come on when cold. (2023)
Those are standard features. You can start the car with the fob a few minutes before you get there. Seats heated (or being ventilated with air conditioned air) and the steering wheel nice and comfy. The settings are in the vehicle setup menus.
Clear stock engine cover for convertible, speed adjusting sound for stereo
My 2020 does have speed adjusting sound.
How about redesigning the DCT to prevent failures, or at least make the known failing parts serviceable. It’s unprofitable and incompetent to have to replace a transmission because something failed internally that can’t be reached. It the expectation that an owner will pay $20k + when theirs fails after warranty? And come clean with what is really going on, failure rates, etc to current owners just waiting for the dreaded error message on their dash.
C6 tail lights
Love the car but the Stingray should have an option for six piston brakes with 15 inch rotors all around for the people that want to track it. The OEM brake rotors over heat and warp easily.
Do you have personal experiance with this? The Ron Fellows folks at Spring Mountain let loose a lot of cars with a lot of amateurs trashing the brakes. The instructors spoke highly of their durability.
Come out with a Grand Sport model.
Adaptive cruise control
Chrome wheel option would be nice.
Relocate the phone holder.
Allow for the key fob to put the htc up or down.
place the cell phone holder charger at a location you can get to without twisting your back
The aftermarket solves the being able to see motor on a vert. It also solves a more lively exhaust note. I think GM should provide OTA tunes to push hp and torque and OTA to push economy. I would also love a way to disable v4. Kick over in other settings beside track. Again this shoukd be ota.
Hi Ed Since last year there is NO AFTERMARKET on any GM cars or SUVs – those days are over forever. Because of electrification and autonomous driving GM has locked down all its processors on all its cars & SUVs. You cannot make any changes whatsoever to any part of any new GM vehicle anymore – no more hp increases, exchaust fiddling, removal of speed limiters; adding amber turn signals; etc etc etc. All gone forever. What you get is what you get.
Hello Gogmgo,
I have three aftermarket parts on my 2020 Vette. A racing exhaust, and a clear cover over the painter Engine cover so that I amy enjoy the motor when I drive fast and decelerate and have a peek at the power plant whenever I pop the top. Pretty sure you can put these on 22 and beyond. Clear top and cover made by paragon, exhaust made by Hennessy. I live in Houston so went with a local exhaust. There are several tuners now. Some even that use the GM computer only. Local guy in Houston named Pietz has some seriously hopped up C8 with dual turbos and other goodies. In Cali this week and saw a Z06 in the wild in Malibu. Would love to own one when markups go away. Cheers
I just put in a call/email to Pietz – as soon as they respond I will get a clearer picture of exactly what they are offering.
thanks Fasted. I just put in a call and email to them – I am waiting for their response. Spoke to my contacts at GM – the only aftermarket company that MAY GET approval is Callaway on their supercharger. Everyone else is just whinging it. Would not go near any of them.
First: Allseason Tires for the Z06. It will be my daily driver in central NJ and temps are below the restriction limits (40) for half the year. Second, take the mirror off from behind the rear-view screen. It’s funky in different lighting situations. Third place the phone charger in a more convenient place. the Consol, door, just some place the driver can reach. Other than that, after 12,000 miles on my 2022 it’s PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great’s car on the planet.!
Sorry Fasted – you just bought a $100k+ car and you want to put on all season tires? You must be joking. Summer tires in summer and winter ties in winter. Or that pretty little fiberglass car may end up against a NJT guard rail. In Europe we are religious about switching because that way I can still drive 200 km/h+ in the winter and not worry too much about the road conditions. It also explains why road deaths in Europe are 1/3rd the US rate. We dont take driving seriously in the US anymore or maybe we never did and the Europeans just continued to get better and better – better roads; higher speed limits; better driver engagement; better security and safety; better pedestrian protection etc etc
I drive the car year-round. Summer tires start to “Plasticize” at 40 degrees and at 20 degrees shouldn’t be driven on. If you drive on it the compound brakes down. Read the manufactures warranty. Where I live that means I should park the car from Oct 1 to May1. I’ve tracked my C8, the A/S tires are as sticky as the Hoosiers I use to race on. Pushing the C8 on the street (me and many of my SCCA racing friends) all agree we can only us 60% of the car on the street. If you have never raced you won’t understand.
The front end slopes back………should scoop forward even more with dive planes….Rear is way too busy….Widen the rear hatch, it’s too narrow at the very back end!!!!!!
More Shoulder Room
The GT2 Buckets, even with the side bolsters adjusted as wide as possible, hit me in the middle of my shoulder blades. The side bolster adjustment allows for very little extra width.
Chevy please make the seat back wider so I can buy a new C8!!!
Get rid of all those bottons in the center piece and make things easier to operate.
Move the phone charger from the rear to the front.
Help make the operation of the car more intutive.
Why do i have to read chapter after chapter and look at videos to find how to operate this car.
Please get rid of the wall of buttons. Have passenger feel like they are a part of the ride.
Incorporate google maps, etc.
Chrome wheels.
I think you are all in a minority – drivers love the segmented appeal and wall of buttons is an extremely attractive design element of this car. In Europe we love it which tells you that it is a succesful design element since our taste in cars is better.
Europeans don’t drive as many miles nor don’t have as many drivers because they tax the living chit out of drivers.
Yes you are correct. Europeans use cars like a Corvette for GT driving – like having lunch in Tuscany and dinner in the South of France. And yes they tax the living daylights out of us through high gasoline taxes and high annual registration fees. But for those of us who can afford it there is nothing better than a big torquey V8 going uphill on a sweeping 3-lane highway at 250 km/h and passing all the beasts of burden and 4-bangers busily changing gears in the slower lanes.
Feature one or two chrome wheel option(s) for the C8
Bring back Corvette Racing Yellow paint.
Absolutely – had that great racing yellow in my C5 and C6 but the C8 yellow is a weird hue!
add chrome wheels as an option
Get rid of that ridiculous console. There’s too much isolation between the driver and the passenger. Also they should never let one leave the assembly plant without a rear spoiler. It looks odd without one.
Most love that console – and a rear spoiler only works above about 150 km/h. Since the top speed limit on any US highway is only 135 km/h give or take a few quid on either side then you are a poseur and not a driver.
Spoilers work on tracks. Some track their cars.
exactly – some – so offer the spoiler as an option not as a standard. For the same reason I got annoyed that on my CT6-V I could not delete the sunroof because it adds weight, puts more weight on the roof and slightly unbalances the car and at speeds above 200 kph is noisy!
Would love to see the 5.7 l V8 back in a Chevy and why not the classic corvette. The performance would be plenty for 98% of people and being able to run regular gas, lower price Corvette, probably slightly better fuel economy. What’s wrong with that? It could be put into a Silverado Sierra Colorado SS versions….. the list goes on. The I.C.E. may be going away but the 350/5.7 liter help start it all. THE ICONIC SMALL BLOCK CHEVROLET needs a final production send off.
Circle steering wheel, maybe offer the “square wheel” with the carbon as an option
Chrome Wheels nothing more. I own a 22021 and have purchased aftermarket chrome wheels.
Lower the HVAC “Wall” and relocate the Phone Charging station, which is in a pretty bad spot currently. Integrate the center Screen similar to the new EV Blazer dash.
Grill protectors (front and sides) should be included as standard items. Rear taillights need an update.
I would like to see adaptive cruise control as an option, obviously a manual transmission, and lower the wall of buttons (which I believe may already be in the works). I would prioritize the manual over the adaptive cruise if I had to choose one. I love everything about my 22 HTC.
Please Chevy:
Make the wishbone Z06/E-Ray side air inlet standard across the line, improves the look of the car 100% over the awkward boomerang look on Stingrays and matches the C8 race car.
Take me off
Center four stack exhaust placement like the C7 and the new C8 Z06. The outer exhaust tips on the C8 just don’t cut it for a performance car.
The side exhausts have at least one thing going for them: you can start the car, open the trunk and not have the exhaust spitting carbon-water drops on your pants.
Seems like a great idea for the aftermarket folks to develop for those who like that look.
Also if the Stingray was identical to the Z06, why would anyone pay the $40k premium for the Z06?
I would love two tone interior colors that match the exterior with black or cream.
A little more horsepower and torque like 525 and 525, round exhaust tips, some bright wheel options and a louder exhaust note for us non NPP guys. And while we are at it , offer the extra cost pearl white and the black metallic paint on all trim levels
Relocate cell phone hard to reach between seats
Door pockets too small and contents fall out
Paint all that black trim body color. Rear lip spoiler. Better looking wheels. Manual gearbox-of course.
Less weight, I want to see further examples of the C8 weigh 3000lbs, and going forward with C9 stay with the mid engine design but again less weight!!!! Build the Vette with a carbon fiber cage and monocoque 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
More comfortable seats available. I sold mine due to crippling pain from the seat.
Integrate the touch screen into the instrument panel instead of it standing alone, do something with that way too busy rear end design, smoothen it out and instead of just four square exhaust tips, maybe make ’em round but leave the Z06 exhaust tips where they are right in the center…easier to tell a Z06 from the back end right away!
Oh…and for god sakes please, please, please get some better looking standard wheels, my gawd if the rest of the Super Cars in this world can do it, then so can Chevy…jeeze louise they are getting OLD by now, don’t you think!
Okay, then there is the obvious…please make this car more available, the “Base” C8 is a pretty decent vehicle in it’s own right but there is no fun going to a Chevy dealer and find maybe one or two in stock (good luck with that) and wouldn’t it be nice if you knew that all you’d have to do is to simply pick one from dealer stock and maybe haggle with the MSRP a bit, it’s an American past time to be able to get a few bucks knocked off the sticker price…boy isn’t that dreaming!
Chevy pretty much knocked the C8 design out of the ball park, but there is always room for improvement, just do it!
One item that HAS to be changed is the inability to put the car in neutral, and take off the e-brakes, when there is no power. There have been numerous instances already where this is a safety issue, a towing issue, and a convenience issue. To have a car that is impossible to put in neutral is ridiculous. The Z06/Z07 is supposed to be a track car. Tell me one race team that doesn’t put the car in neutral and push it around. How are you supposed to track the car if you cant treat it like a track car. Take off the monkey proof gadgets and let real drivers use the car.
Interior – get rid of the stupid wall between the driver and passenger. It is a waste of space and alienates the passenger. Ferrari’s McLaren’s and Lamborghini’s don’t have this and look much cleaner on the inside.
Exterior design. Clean up the design and make it more rounded. There are way to many angular lines in the car. look at the F488 and M570. Nice elegant rounded designs. The overall look of the C8 is good and can stay the same, but get rid of the excess ridges. Like on the hood and the doors. way to busy.
Love the car, black on black on black.
Cool the back trunk area. It’s too hot to put groceries in for any length of time.
Change the cell phone location.
Screens on the front air intakes.
Please add Super Cruise; or, at least adaptive cruise control and lane keep assist as options on a C8. If am going on a longer road trip, would be more convenient and likely safer to have these as options — and for drives when they’re not necessary – – no need to turn them on.
Make the side vehicle notification larger in the exterior side mirrors. Insulate the rear trunk. Grap handle for the passenger.
I would like t see the base engine’s output increased to 500 HP and I would like to see a Grand Sport version that follows the path of the C6 and C7 Grand Sports. Basically a Z06 with the standard engine, but with 500 HP. I would also like to see a manual transmission or at least a simulated manual, similar to the one Acura is working on. I think its Acura.
LOVE THE CAR! BUMP TO 525 HP AND WHEEL OPTION THAT LOOK LIKE Z06.
I would like to see the volume knob move to the right side so you can anchor your hand and also allow for easier PX use.
Would like to see the headlights squared off Lambe style and or the LEDs need to run vertical on front corners. More of a defined front in LED.
remove that bizarre divider between the driver and passenger, it feels like the driver is in a one man submarine
Why not ask the question to poll C8 owners that have had the car one year or more? They would have a more accurate a.d meaningful evaluations.
Already has 470 torque!
Stop the dealers from charging crazy absurd ADM’s
Better rear visibility with the top down. The rear camera turns off in convertible mode.
Move the manual key unlock position back behind rear license plate. Older folks can’t operate current position on 2023 C8s.
100A% Automatic activated front lift that has sensors to detect when it is needed. Then no need for driver to activate, or a system to save locations for future automatic re-activation.
An aftermarket “fix” for the dash color accents that create windshield glare stripes. The sky cool gray and yellow both are a road hazard as they obscure important things like pedestrians under certain light conditions.
Make the black body accent pieces an up charge option and instead make body-colored the standard version. All those black goo-gaas detract from the sculptural shape of the vehicle. I paid extra for body colored trim when THAT should have been the stock version. Instead, let the black/carbon fiber lovers pay extra for THAT busy-looking-too-much-bling trim version.
I have always thought the rims on all models looked incorrect. The new E-Ray turbines are not terrible as they look like they are stronger than the other stock rims. I know this is easily changed and can be returned to stock with a quickness, but it is the thing I would change.
I don’t own one so it’s interesting to read the comments listed here…
So many complaints that influences my decision to ever owning one.
Personally, the duel clutch is so fast who would want a stick to slow them down. It’s why the top exotics rid them as an option.
What I’m reading is more refinement and to differentiate the z06 from the factory C8.
Continue increasing hp on all models but don’t forget torque!
Seats should be modeled after Americans and not Europeans since there are differences.
No one ever gets it right on the first edition.
Enjoy your C8 or sell it to me at junkyard prices and I will enjoy crap out of it!
Better wheel selection, most current choices are just ugly.
I have a 2020 C8 HTC and the trunk gets too hot to put things like a cooler or anything that can melt like makeup. Better and/or more insulation would help or better venting near the back of the engine compartment. I have learned to segregate the lugage when I travel alone but the wifes luggage won’t all fit in the front. Married guys know what I mean.
I own a 22 coupe it took me 2 years to decide if I liked the design of the rear end. Yes it is way too busy and complicated the main thing that I still hate is and what makes it so wrong is the focal point of the design is the ugliest part of any car THE LICENSE PLATE IS WAY TO HIGH AND THAT’S ALL I SEE IT’S IN YOUR FACE INSTEAD OF BEING AS LOW AND OUT OF SITE AS POSSIBLE. Luckily in Michigan, they came out with an optional very dark blue plate that helps it, if not for that I would have a white plate that would have really looked bad on my torch-red car. A friend of mine that was ahead of Cadillac design decades ago hates the back end he told me a simple way to prove a good design is if a person could see it and then draw a sketch of it without looking at the car. Tom Peters the GM designer had his hand in the design of the C6 another Vette that he ruined by replacing the hidden headlights with ugly projectors and chopping off the C5 backend I passed on this model because the C6 headlights to me are ugly and way too big with a shape that does not line up to any other areas of the car I think he broke an egg over the fender and took a marker to outline the shape also the boring flat sides. The C7 Tom Peters eliminated the round taillights that were way too big on the C6 so I passed on a C7 keeping my C5 torch red 6-speed convertible because it is so well proportioned with deep side coves. I went to an event at the GM Tech Center Dome this year to hear Corvette Designers talk about their design history Tom bragged about the C6 headlights and the C7 taillights that he did I almost puked on the floor. REMEMBER TOM PETERS DESIGNED THE PONTIAC AZTEK HE FAILED TO MENTION THAT BUT IT WAS A CORVETTE EVENT. I went to the C8 reveal and Tom was there telling everyone that the most beautiful design was inside the human body, yes he was slurring his words and the audience was looking at each other. SO YES CLEAN UP THE REAR EVEN IF YOU HAVE TO USE TOILET PAPER.
Getting away from the “my dog’s better than your dog” bickering and back on to the “what would you like to see changed in the C8” topic, please bring back the Brownstone interior.
Would like to see 50 extra horsepower on the standard C8. Lower less obtrusive center console. All season tires available as a choice on the Z51 package. I suspect most folks aren’t doing track days and the ability to use my C8 year round without changing tires would be a better option. Heating/AC air vents are too small and don’t allow enough air flow. Still a great car though!
The size. That car is enormous. The width of the rear end measures the same as a 1959 Chevy. Cars don’t need to be that big.
The volume and channel control buttons on steering wheel are in very bad spots! Inconvenient, too low on wheel!
Buttons on my Equinox steering wheel much easier to access and operate! Wireless Phone charger in terrible location! Don’t use it!
Otherwise, love everything else about my C8!
I was thinking the same thing, the corvette wheel buttons are TERRIBLE. My most available and least used digit,
my left thumb, can control the cruise control, my least needed feature.
On the left thumb position I would prefer volume and track/channel/device
The 63 Split Window Coupe and the 68 Coupe/Convertible are timeless designs. The C8 in another 50 years will be as sought after as a C4 is today.
Manual transmission. And less busy styling. Too many lines and creases.
I have read most of these post. The people who are complaining about about the way the C8 looks probably don’t own or never owend a Corvette of any year. Buy the C8 you may love it. I’ve had 6 corvettes and now own a 22 3LT. It has been the best one ever.
I freakin love my C8! Yes there are things that could be different but this first iteration is fantastic. All these captain obvious arm chair designers should have gone to school and interviewed to be automotive designers with the Corvette team. HaHaHaHa
I work at a Chevrolet dealership in Colorado & handle everything Corvette related.
Here’s a quick 5 things I would change/update to the C8 platform off the top of my head:
1. Add 360 Surround Vision – Does it not just need 2 cameras on the side mirrors for this to work?
2. Use the 360 degree cameras as a dashcam as well as a security system even when the vehicle is off, example: Tesla Sentry Mode.
3. Offer Paint to Sample – Especially on the higher variants. Or at least a much larger selection of colors.
4. Updated Infotainment system – BUT NOT the Google stuff in Silverado/Tahoe, they are slow and glitchy. Customization & the animations are cool however.
5. Better Vehicle Performance Pages – Would be super cool to have gauges appear on the actual infotainment screen especially when put into track mode such as throttle/brake input, fuel flow & g-forces as examples. My 14 Q50 has these.
THIS is a great thread and list of comments today. I wonder how many actually own the C8, and speak from experience.
For me, I want the QI phone charger somewhere NOT behind the driver out of sight, and out of mind.
I stopped using it , have my phone on a cord coming out of the small center console compartment.
For safety, I think there should be a grab bar on the passenger side.
This is a really well designed car, and everything works as it should and it is well thought out,
But now that we have them… and those tail lights, match the C7 , and I can see the progression, but they like a new
Camaro also, I do kinda miss the round style tail light.
I find it easy to remove the rear bumper to swap wings. I can do it alone. Changing the oil is super-easy.
Every Stingray sold should have the under-hood lights. Originally lights on the engine only came with the
$1000 engine appearance package, But for $150 I installed factory Chevy Corvette correct lights. So I could see the engine at night. These under hood lights should be on every C8 coupe standard.
SAFETY SAFETY SAFETY – my other car, and my motorcycle have Active Cruise Control, sometimes
called a Dynamic Radar Safety System. Basically, a follow-me cruise control that senses the vehicle in front.
I stopped using the cruise control on the C8 because it was way too easy to come up on another driver .
Active Cruise Control should be standard.
I have a 2021 Zeus Bronze 3lt Z51 convertible.
1) I do miss a stick shift (the paddles on the steering wheel don’t get it when shifting around corners). If the paddle shifters were stationary, like a stick, say on the column, itself, shifting around corners would be easier and more convenient.
2) I also miss the compartment behind the screen. It was very convenient and the console has barely enough room for a dime, so lack of storage.
3) Having the ability to record and view the rear as well as the front is paramount, in this woman’s opinion, as well as for safety.
For what it’s worth, this is my 9th Corvette. My first was a 1974 t-top.
You’ve come a long way, baby! Lol
I love my Vettes!
Definitely more safety features. All Corvettes should have all the same safety features as other GM vehicles that I own which cost much less than Corvettes.
An option to make the curved leather accents on the dash black regardless of Dash color, or even better offer a carbon fiber option. With light dash colors it is extremely annoying to always have to wear polarized sunglasses even at dusk.
The only thing I would change on the C8 is to make much better and way more Modern looking Tail Lights.
That is literally it.
I would like to see a little more chrome again, especially rims.
Figure out how to stop this Market Adjustment crap.
My 2020 does have speed adjusting sound.
A better yellow car. The Accelerate Yellow color is ugly. The previous yellow was fine.
standard grill screens, ceramic brake pad option,black out heat shield behind tailpipes, invisable rear defroster lines, debadge option,funk power closer pulldown.collision avoid system and super cruise.
Locking gas cap! Are you kidding me? 18 gallons of premium available for anyone with a siphon?
Really? You buy a $70-$120k car and you worry about having your cheap gasoline siphoned? Come to Europe where we spend $6-$9/gallon for gasoline. If you have to ask how much you cannot afford it!
If you remove the wall of buttons I will buy the car. Adjust screen so passenger can use radio/navigation.
Have someone refine the design who doesn’t think Transformers and the F117 stealth fighter are good automotive design references. Too many disjointed angles, facets, vents and just pointless design details.
And watch the price. The Vette was always a sports car the average person could afford. A starting price of $60k looks great, but add a few critical options and you’re quickly pushing $80+k. Things like the front end lift and magnetic ride should be included in the base price.
My request would be to reduce the wind noise when the roof panel is removed on the coupe.
The very best thing you can do for the C8 is cancel the dealers who sell for over MSRP. It hurts the corvette and GM brands
Completely agree.
My dealer in Alabama wanted $5000 over list and I already bought 2 new Vettes from them! So, I went to Louisiana!
I absolutely love my 2020. Best car ever. How can you complain about price at 25% of the cost of a Ferrari. I’d like chrome wheels.
I would like to be able to program the “launch mode” into the “Z” mode without going thru the traction control.
First off, I love my 2021 LT3 Z51 Stingray! The nits (no particular order):
Auto right seat to exit (the left is great, although it should start with shutdown, rather than wait for the door latch)*
Passenger grab handle
Soft close for the frunk
Lockout for the environmental buttons
Flip the mirror down for the camera (flipping up introduces bright reflections when the top is down)
Reduce air noise with the top off (deploying trip lip on the windscreen bow?)
Wider/grip pier front tires (more steering authority exiting corners with power on)
Less weight, especially the pop top, it is a handfull.
Offer the 4S all season radial tire with the Z51 package, not all of us are headed directly to the track
Ditto for the rear spoiler; little extra down force now and then, extra drag all the time
Increase the sunshade effectiveness; not sure how to improve the geometry, but they are marginal
The rear hatch mech protrudes into the trunk space, suggest major redesign to move the latch to the trunk floor, wrap the hatch down the back vastly improving access
Retain the drive mode on restart; if it was wet/icy when you went in to the store, it will still be so when you come out
Things that are great:
GT2 seats are wonderfull, comfy for that 15 hour trek and that wring it out at the track
Instant power and acceleration
Nice ride everywhere; dirt roads to the autobahn, it rides nice
The great wall of buttons, easy to memorize and work by braille
Fun to drive and a frequent conversation starter!
Personally I think it has plenty of Corvette styling queues. We’ve been teased with mid-engined ‘vette concept cars since I can remember in the early sixties. The more rounded lines of the XP-880/Astro II are more to my aesthetic taste but is even less “Corvette like” than the production version. I saw the production announcement in late 2019, was so excited and ordered one. I was able to pick up my ’21 at Bowling Green.
It is not perfect, but it is the best car I’ve ever driven.
Add a deep blue metallic color, get rid of the LEGO-colored Rapid Blue. Paint exterior design cues unless otherwise specified. More bright silver painted wheel options.
Make the front lift automatic. The camera should see an obstruction and automatically activate the lift.
3 pedals for the pushrod V8’s. Heritage styling inside and out for the Zora.
One of the suspension settings is “Touring.” Taking the C8 on trips is something we will do immediately when we drive home from our upcoming NCM delivery. The Automatic braking and cruise control distance-maintaining features should not add any significant weight to the car, but would add a LOT of safety when driving with my wife in the car – yes, I said that. I’m ambivalent about the GM self-driving feature, but the auto braking belongs on all state-of-the-art 2023 cars IMO. Turn it off if you like or make it optional, but GM should make it available.
Reduce the size from the hips backward, reduce the side scoop and simplify the design it is too busy. They’ve made a statement now is the time to go back to good design.
I have a 2023 HTC. I would love to see a chrome wheels option for those that want it – for those that don’t nothing lost. I would like the rear view camera to work with the top down. I would like to see adaptive cruise control (it is my daily driver). The key fob should raise the top as well as lowering it. I like the idea of offering a clear top for the convertible. I would like a wireless phone charger that is strong enough to actually charge a phone.
All of these are minor tweaks. I have owned C3, C4, C5, C6, C7 models and this is hands down the best – both as a car and as a sports car. I am on a list for the eRay but don’t know if I will purchase it (depends if I see as much or more value as GM wants me to – aka price). I am fine with Corvette becoming a brand, fine with an electric sedan and/or SUV etc. The car has to evolve just as we do.
Also I forgot, bring back MANUAL GEARBOX, 7SPEED on all Corvette’s Stingray, Z06, E-Ray, ZR1, and Zora!!!! Manual transmission will also cut the weight, I read that the current Tremac dual clutch is a heavier unit!!!!
1. Update the grill, a little chrome would help. 2. chrome wheels. 3. A little bright work in the interior. 4. Matching interior with exterior paint, blue on blue ETC. 4. Too busy rear.
OH, No chrome please. Black wheels.
Use active matrix head lights like Audi does.
How about having them so you can buy one.
How about having them so you can buy one!
I would like to see the maroon interior to become available again!@
I have exhaust smell in the rear trunk compartment is there any way of stopping that?
If you have exhaust smell inside the rear storage area, something is not right. Mine does not have that at all.
I agree no smell in mind after 12,000 miles
Take the $15,000 pure profit that GM added to Australian price. Above their already profi margin. We’re already hit with exchange rate, ozy taxes, and salesmen adding up to $120,000 over RRP. Bloody ridiculous.
Americans are paying $85,000 for an optioned up C8, over here I saw a 3LT carbon for $345,000. I hope he gets stuck with it, but some idiot will buy it.
Australia can’t buy a base model C8, they start of with 2LT, Z51, 2″Lift.
But then again (YOU CAN’T BUY ONE)
It is a bit ridiculous that automotive technologists invented ABS and made it clear that we needed to slam our foot hard down and ignore the pulsing back up our foot and leg – and yet most drivers ignored the advice and never used ABS properly and then we had to create automatic braking to compensate for poor driving skills. I would suggest that this coterie should not even by driving a sports car and should stick to a KIA.
Chip foose recently did a redesign of the 8th generation Corvette. GM should look at that design and realize it’s better lines than the ones they came up with to make it look like a Corvette.
I wonder if there would be any interest in a hard core fixed roof track package version, with some weigh shaved off and of course, like Porsche, a higher price tag.
Considering that the body is not primary structure, deleting the removable roof panel would have little, if any difference in weight or torsional stiffness. The car is very stiff! I had my C8 coupe on jackstands and noticed that one of the stands under the front pads was not making contact with the car due to unevenness of the shop floor! I drove some door wedges between the stand and the jack pad to shim it up to feel safe inspecting and cleaning up the underside.
Needs twice the horse power not living up to it’s name to slow
The next Corvette generation should be all about CURVES, not trying to look like an U.S. Air Force stealth fighter jet.
Convert all of the current hard edges and flat surfaces to multiple curves and smooth, long flowing arcs. Look over all previous Corvettes as they had Curves instead of jet fighter body parts.
Then bring back the Haartz cloth convertible tops with NO humps/nacelles behind the seats, just a smooth flowing trunk that has a glass window to see the engine glory. Get rid of the dozen motors, brackets and gears (savings costs) that is needed to pull the hard top into place.
If you are too lazy to get out and open/close a beautiful cloth top, then buy a Mercedes.
Return the Corvette to it’s own unique style and beauty without looking like the McLaren clone of the day.
Corvettes Rule Forever – No Electric Propulsion, Please Just Gas.
Thanks for listening.
Thanks for listening? They don’t listen just keep you all drinking the koolaid. GM only cares about insane profit from building hype and making the C8 a 12-18 month wait. They can’t even make stingray available but yet want leak videos and hype the internet to make you drool over something you can’t even get..smh
Then everyone will complain that they just copied Ferrari with the smooth curves.
Ah Jeffrey Thomas – there is nothing quiite like remembering the so-called ‘good ‘ol days’ which never were as good as we remember them. As every generation of Corvette reflects the technology of the day not quite sure how we could embrace your vision. And as GM has agreed to phase out all gasoline powered cars (I say gasoline because gas is not a liquid and I am sure you did not mean it but you did say it) I would put all my money on believing that the C9 is going to be electrified and not even a hybrid. Don’t worry you will get used to it in the same way that you got used to the pop up headlights also disappearing – for that you can blame European regulations again. As said previously much of what drives US design is European safety regs – yes we may be the greatest country in the world but we have definitely abdicated our leadership position in automotive and aircraft safety. Europe counts for more now.
Jeffery, just but that Old CX and enjoy it. Stay in the past. The C8 is the best Corvette ever, and I’ve 357,000 miles in Corvettes, 12,000 in my 2022 C8. GM hit a home run with the C8. Corvettes used to be the best buy in a Sports Cars, now it’s just the Best Sports Car………… And then the Z06………. Life moves on, the all-Electric Corvettes is a given. It will out preform the C8-Z06 and C8-ZR1 in all as-specs except for sound. 0-60 in 1.X So again just but that CX and enjoy the old technology. Some of us like vanilla and other something more spicy.
Smaller overall ass.
It has always seemed disproportionate to the rest of the car in my opinion.
Manual transmission, I won’t buy one unless it does. My current ZL1 is wonderful.
Manual Transmissions will soon take their place in history along side the generator.
Maybe all who dismiss manual can’t grasp learning to drive one and as a old fart I say it’s the lazy, young couch potato that do or learn anything unless it has to touch screen. Bet if you young unfit GM koolaide drinkers could shift from the screen or an app then it wound be cool.
And the manual choke.
Hi Rob then stick to the ZL1 – good choice. I am buying a ZL1 in 2024 – wont be buying the Zora until at least 2026 – want the fever to break and want to gie the assembly teams time to get the car built properly. Never by a Corveette in the first year of production.
Exterior styling. Find a grownup who appreciates beautiful cars, not just more angles, cuts and scoops. See if Ian Callum is available.
He was great on Monty Python…..
I have a 2021 C8 -3LT with the Z51 package, front lift, and Mag Suspension with over 51,000 miles. I love this car for many reasons….just too many to list.
The indicator lights for the climate controls located on the center tunnel need to be enhanced as it’s difficult to determine setting in daylight conditions. The feel of all the controls ar tactile but visually are challenging to determine the setting, ie the recirculation button.
The oil dip-stick is difficult to read. A chevy technician actually over-filled the engine by 2-quarts because the lighting in shop was so poor! I had him correct that error in a New York second!
The top of the front shock struts accumulate water in the open wells and need a fitted cap or the nuts and bolts replaced with zinc hardware to prevent the accumulation. Otherwise water does cause the the nuts and bolts to rust. I bought /installed an aftermarket product
The front heat-exchangers (radiators) need to be better protected with a mesh screen. I bought/installed an aftermarket product.
AFter reading many of these comments I see a few consistent trends and I am afraid I am going to disappoint many of you. GM has decided to move the Corvette seriously upmarket and for good reason. The cognitive and financial elite of the US (and the world) has the money to buy Corvettes at these prices. They pay over list for Ferrari, McLaren, Lamborghini and Porsche and they wait patiently up to 2 years to get their steeds. This is the market that GM is targetting:
(1) So if you want a cheap Corvette then buy a Camaro
(2) If you want chrome wheels buy a C5 or C6 or maybe even a C7 – Chrome wheels, like pop-up headlights and vinyl roofs, belong to a previous generation. If you keep on asking for these options you are showing your age and maybe at the age of 60-70 you should not be buying one of these sports cars. Chrome wheels are tacky which is why you never saw them on the options list of Ferrari or Porsche
(3) Many of you complain about the seats being too tight – yet again, you are showing your age and perhaps even your weight. A fat older man driving a Corvette does zero for the brand’s image. It is a free country and you can buy as many as you want but don’t complain if the brand is set up for younger and richer buyers. That is just the way it is and so get over it.
(4) Many of you request larger and more obnoxious rear wings – yet again this shows poseurs over drivers. Rear wings do absolutely nothing at US highway speeds. The downforce only becomes relevant at speeds above 150-160 kph or 90-100 in funny money. You will all notice that there is NO FERRARI with a rear wing! Luca di Montezemolo made a decision, as Ferrari CEO, twenty years ago that wings looked cheezy and tacky on road cars and therefore told his car designers to find the downforce through other design features. They have done that with amazing success. And other manufacturers may not have followed to the letter but have made their rear wings electrically operable and they only pop up above a certain speed. Perhaps Corvette should do the same. Personally I find the wings to be tacky myself.
(5) I, for one, love the center stack that helps to envelope the driver. I find it to be a brilliant design element and i hope it stays. Perhaps the buttons themselves could be more visible and more tactile (quality issue) but otherwise I love this design element – yet this too seems to be an element that many of you do not like and I personally don’t understand why.
Gogmgo I agree with everything you said about the C8 except about old men. I’ve purchased Corvettes for 58 years and feel like the C8 is the best Corvette has produced, so far. The C8 is an improvement over past models and years and the future will continue to show improvements or the Corvette will not survive.
Hi Barry I too am an old man (61) but lets face it, many of our Corvette aficionados in our age bracket have bought Corvettes as a reward for a life well lived and well earned. And that is great. But should you really be buying this kind of car if your mobility is in any way impaired? And from many of the complaints I read on the C8 a fair number appear to be mobility-related: (1) They complain about the difficulty of reaching their cellphone in the charger slot between the 2 seats (2) They want SuperCruise (3) They want the cameras to be on all the time so they can view their rear camera on the infotainment screen while driving!!! (4) They want more comfortable seats (5) They want softer accelerator pedals (6) They want manual transmissions but complain about the seat stiffness/width (7) They want the designers to eliminate the center stack perhaps because they cannot reach over with ease to their pet poodle. You get my point.
(6) I will agree with many of you that the design of the rear needs improvement and especially the lights – too close to the look of the C7 which was the one reason I never bought a C7 after having owned 3 C4s including a ZR1, one C5 and one C6. It won’s top me from buying a Zora or Eray but like many of you I think it could be simplified and made more elegant.
(7) All Corvettes should be able to go faster than 300 km/h – the worldwide standard that divides real sports cars from poseurs. That equates to 186 in funny money. The standard Stingray does not reach 300 kph which is quite frankly embarrassing.
(8) We Americans should get used to waiting patiently for our cars to be ordered and delivered. I only ever bought my first Corvette off the lot and regretted forever. I always order my cars and if I have to wait 18 months I wait. I also never order a GM car until it has had at least 3 years of production in order to weed out any gross technical, engineering or construction issues. This C8 will be no different. I will be ordering a Camaro ZL1 for 2024, the last and best year of production.
(9) Some of your requested SuperCruise on your Corvette – what can I say? If you are looking for SuperCruise by a Buick SUV.
(10) And finally, some of you want Corvette to copy Ferrari – if you want that design language then buy that brand. GM’s design studios have been world-class for 60-70 years and the Corvette is admired around the world. If anything they should be selling more of their production in Europe and Australia – especially now that they offer the car in RHD so can sell it in Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, South Africa and other smaller countries that drive on the wrong side of the road.
I look forward to reading all the snarly comments that will come my way.
Well gogmgo though you may be right on some issues. It’s fine to upmarket the C8 but then GM should not have fake us when on the initial reveal bragging about the low MSRP and how it can be in every driveway of a person with a good job. What a joke! Just be honest from the start and tell your base that this is going to be the new American Ferrari, instead they BS their fan base. Also this isn’t Europe and is it fair to sell more overseas when you can’t even meet demand here in the US. This C8 rollout is going the way of the rest of this upside down country. But this is America and at least for now we can still agree to disagree and make our own decisions. So you are all free to give in and keep drinking the GM goofy juice but I’m also free to dive out. I’m sure greedy GM could care less because you all enabled them to act like this.
GM, for once, has a car that is very desirable. It is something quite frankly that they are not used to – their mantra has always been to sell them cheaply but keep the assembly line moving. For once they have a car that actually is ‘worth more’ than MSRP. They obviously mis-priced it at the beginning of production and launch and if you cannot find any at that low price it is because the car can sell for a higher price. That is just the way this works – if you were them what would you do? They have an assembly line that can only physically build 50k cars – are you going to build 50k cars at $60-$80k or are you going to build 50k cars at $80-$200k including charging higher premiums for cars going to Europe and Asia?
I believe your comments are spot on. GM is in the business of making money. Once they went to the mid-engine format, they put the corvette in the class of the exotics, and they did not go there until they believed that they compete and get their market share. Just think of how long it took GM to determine the price of the Z06. Yes, many of the comments show the age of the folks who replied. If you like chrome wheels, there are plenty of ways to get chrome wheels from after market vendors. Your comment on waiting at least 3 years for them to work out the bugs is one I learned from my uncle who was a mechanic for many years, and you are right. Just look at the C7 and how it evolved over its life span. I waited and bought a 2018 Grand Sport, via order, that was built after the paint shop was upgraded. However, I may brake that rule for the E-Ray because of my age; if I do, it, most likely, will be the last corvette i will buy in my lifetime. Thank you for your good comments.
I agree with your perspective.
Thank goodness I’m not an old stinky fat opinionated fart that’s 60 or older!!
I love my C8 as is, and as the saying goes, “If you don’t like it, go buy a Ford and cry like a baby”!”
I AM an “old stinky fat opinionated fart” and I, too, love my C8 as is!!!!
I too am a 61-year old fat man and will love my EU-spec E-Ray or Zora when it eventually makes it over here at a price that will make me blanche. Remember that the European/world car is structurally different from the US (MVSS)/Canada/Mexico car – besides the lights and the metric instrumentation we have pedestrian explosives under the hood – if we hit a pedestrian the hood explodes forward so that the pedestrian won’t hit the windshield. We also pay a 10% import duty and VAT from 15-25% depending on the country. If I lived in Denmark the cost of a $100,000 Corvette landed and registered in Denmark would cost $100,000 x 10% import duty = $110,000 x 150% car tax = $275,000 + 25% VAT = $343,750! Yes, you read that correctly!
I am only several months from 60, not as slim as I once was, but the heavier foot makes the go fast, faster! Explosive hood, sounds like James Bond! As for your comment regarding the cost in Denmark, holy cow! It’s time to move tp the US.
hI TDH – when the roads become as well designed as they are in Europe, the killing fields go down to European levels and the speed limits go up to unrestricted then I will move back to the USA. It is only the very small country of Denmark that charges these taxes. In Italy, where I live, I would pay the 10% import duty and 22% sales tax (VAT) but would also pay $11k/year for registration. So I register my cars in the UK where I also pay the import duty and sales tax but only pay $1,500 in annual registration taxes. Which explains why only in Germany, Monaco, Switzerland and the UK does one see the plethora of expensive metal that one sees in LA or Miami. But not having to deal with left lane dawdlers, being able to drive 300 km/h and being able to have lunch in Rome and dinner in Nice makes it much more enjoyable to drive Cadillacs and Corvettes in Europe.
You are spot on, some of the roads in the US roads are horrible and the police love to generate revenue for the states. It seems that you’ve figured it out. I would love to lunch in Roma, dinner in Nice and drive these cars as their meant to be driven! If you haven’t driven one of the C8’s you will love it. I’ve driven one on track for a couple of days and have owned one for 15 months and it is a fantastic car.
Thank you TDH – I have not driven one yet but I will be buying either the Zora or the E-Ray because I need AWD. Europeans drive their sports cars to the beach in summer and mountains in winter which explains why approximately 40% of Porsche sales in Europe are AWD. Porsche started building AWD Porsches back in the early 80s. Corvette will get there in 2024 – about 42 years later. This is also another indication that GM finally has a sub-brand ‘Corvette’ that can compete with the Europeans. AWD also helps in the rain at speeds above 220-230 kph.
Lol, I am just months away from 60!!! So accordingly not old YET, maybe when I’m 90!
I want them to phase out the Stingrays replacing them with E-Ray so their values shoot up more..
The rear view camera should be standard on all trim levels.
I agree the car is unsafe with out the mirror camera
An answer to all. My house rule was first car had to be stick. Both daughters sill thank my. There has been a stick in the garage for 55 years. All 3 previous Corvettes were stick. I now have 12,000 miles on my 2022 C8. And some Track time. It would be a crime to put a manual trans in a C8. U need to spend time in one,to get to understand it. Just the best car on the planet.
C8 corvette should raise MSRP a little bit and put a decent looking set of standard wheels on the car so people don’t have to spend $2000.00.
Also, Onstar needs to change how they score driving trips Monday thru Friday. It is impossible to receive a score of 100!!! Saturday and Sunday are the only days a100 is possible!!!!!
C8 corvette should raise MSRP a little bit and put a decent looking set of standard wheels on the car so people don’t have to spend $2000.00.
Also, Onstar needs to change how they score driving trips Monday thru Friday. It is impossible to receive a score of 100!!! Saturday and Sunday are the only days a100 is possible!!!!! This is not a duplicate comment!!!!
Offer the Corvette Racing Yellow color that was available on the C7’s. It was an outstanding color and more popular than the current yellow.
Being able to program “launch control” into the “Z” mode would be great rather than having to push traction control twice and then having to go to track or sport and then going somewhere else….I don’t remember where. By the time I figure it out, the light is red again. Just make it simple.
You can by setting the transmission in in Z-mode to sport or race. You can even tie a double press of the Z-mode button to the PTM race mode settings. So with a double tap on the Z-mode button you can be all set for a speeding ticket anywhere in the land of the free in under five seconds! In my ’21 manual these features are discussed on page 214.
Note that if you press and hold the start button for about 5 seconds without holding the brakes the machine chimes and enters a run diagnostic mode where you can set all this up without idling the engine.
Thanks Jared. My car is a 2020, hopefully I can use your expertise and get the set-up I’m looking for.
The worst designed item on both my C7 and continuing in the C8 convertibles is the shape of the left rear view mirror. Its shape cuts off the bottom left hand corner of the mirror and creates a dangerous blind spot between where the rear mirror camera loses the picture and before the amber mirror alarm is activated. Of course, that’s related to my seat position but the problem would have been eliminated if the mirror had been fully rectangular.
Put the frt lift and frt camera buttons on the steering wheel. As for the console , at least put the temperature and fan rockers together at the top. And offer a Carbon Fiber overlay on the wishbone leather details on the dash to help with the glare on the lighter colors.
I would make 4 improvements: (1) Amber turn signals as I don’t want drivers rear ending me when I am turning left or right. (2) The base Corvette has to go faster than 300 km/h. All serious sports cars and sports sedans need to break the 300 km/h marker – I understand that in the US this equates to 186 in funny money and so Americans are not too aware of this (Canadians would be as would all Europeans) but it is a serious marker of respect. (3) The side mirrors should be larger – yet again for those who have ever purchased a CTS-V (V3) or a CT6 or a CT5 you might have noticed that the European version has nicer and more elegant larger wing mirrors – the better to see out of them – imagine that – and they look more purposeful. (4) And I agree with one of the comments above that they should bring back a bright yellow paint option – not the weird yellow that is available today.