C8 CORVETTE

is that 2021 red mist an actual car or photoshop?

 

Official Chevrolet picture of the new color. Tadge likes the color so much he is ordering it on his personal 2021 C8...

 

Each to their own but this new red doesn't do it for me. Maybe if I saw it but it looks like a McLaren color.

I would have done it in Lambo bright green. It has a lot of Lambo-like cuts and creases in the body to pull it off. If they want to sell these to a younger crowd, they have to go more outrageous.

The colors the younger owners seem to be going for is that bright (Smurf) blue, white, and bright orange.

 

My Z51, MagneRide, C8 was delivered today. I did not really have super high expectations, but am really impressed with the way it turned out. Amazing value in a sports car. Ride quality is unbelievably good. Panel gaps and interior quality are really great, at least on my example. Can't wait for break in miles to get full power on tap.

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I really like your spec!

 

Saw my first one in the flesh.
Front was nice in a generic super car way. Not as inetresting as a ferrari or hurcan, better than a an Maclaren.
The rear, wtf, it would be ok on a camro. Too heavy and overworught.

The got the c7 so right, I guess it was comitte time with t he C8.

 

Ugh, they really missed it with the orange. Looks like CalTrans Orange.

 

What Does a McLaren Supercar Salesman Think Of The New CORVETTE C8?

 

First convertible shows up for Museum delivery...

IMO, its actually better looking than the coupe.

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Had one show up in my driveway yesterday. 525-ish miles on it and already been hammered on the salt flats (45 minutes from home)

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FINALLY someone else ordered Blade silver with silver stripes like I did..... this is the first photo I've seen and its exactly as I hoped. I wanted a subtle stripe to spark up the silver. IMO: Fantastic.

Blade silver is going away so anyone who hasn't already ordered it will never get it.

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Mayor you have asthetic taste, that combo really gives the vette something, it also ties in with the duntov stingray racers

 

That's why I'm a designer!

 

rapid blue
like the black with white stitching.

 

we also saw the current dark red w black stripe. very nice color.

 

I’m in NC right now and for the first time over the last few days have seen 3 C8s on the road.
Driving along all of a sudden I see one coming in the other direction and on all occasions my immediate reaction was, “Oh look, here comes a Lambo. Wait, no, that’s the new ‘vette.”
Very cool looking car when in the wild and unexpected.

 

First convertible delivered to a customer....


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Dan Neil from Saturday's WSJ review of the C8

OMG.

The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Z51 is fantastic. I don’t think I can take many more surprises this year. The eighth generation of America’s Sports Car since 1953, and the first to put the engine behind the driver, the “C8” Stingray quick, it’s slick, it looks like my secret anime avatar on the outside and some impossible, blue-sky concept car on the inside. The hand-wrapped leather interior included in the 3LT package rivals anything in Lambo’s supply chain.

I couldn’t be more taken off my feet if GM CEO Mary Barra knocked on my door, offering to mow my lawn.

The C8 is not perfect; later on I’ll say how. But first let’s celebrate the W. A grateful nation says, Boo-yah.

It may strain diplomatic relations with Italy, however. Built on a spaceframe of aluminum extrusions and diecast chassis nodes; shrouded with composite and aluminum body panels; poised over aluminum double-A arms with coil-over magnetic dampers; and cogged with a dual-clutch transaxle, the Stingray’s anatomy resembles that of the Ferrari 488 GTB ($330,000). The 488 is more power-dense and prettier, for sure. But, taking all things in balance, the Chevy beats the snot out of it.

Main Street seems to like it. On Saturday, my neighbor rented an inflatable waterslide for his kid’s birthday. By the time I parked the Z51—a performance upgrade package that includes a throatier, two-stage exhaust system—eight wet little kids were dancing on the hot asphalt around the car, eyes wide.

Throughout my week with the Stingray—ours enameled in a stunning tobacco-brown metallic with black-and-tan interior—admirers have engaged on the ontology of Corvette-ness. More than a few have mused that “It doesn’t look like a Corvette to me,” offered as a compliment or put-down. Dude, I can’t account for your a priori , but if that doesn’t look like your idea of a Corvette, it really ought to.

Sitting in the C7, the driver looks over the instrument binnacle and past a long hood. In the C8, one looks down and out, with the roof pillars almost peripheral. The frunk lid falls away like a waterslide; the pedals are between the front wheels. The difference in visibility might be compared with moving from the pilot’s seat to the nose-gunner position in a B-17 Flying Fortress.

After years of taking grief for chintzy interiors, the C8’s design team, and their accountants, seem out to prove something. It’s like a leather-upholstered jigsaw puzzle in there. The cabin gleams with pewter-like accents framing the switches, screens, and blade-thin HVAC vents. The drive selector is an elegant switchset reminiscent of the Fisker Karma. The drive-mode selector lives under its own, handsome leather hillock, a palm rest. The high-rez touch screen and connected digital UX is current, easy to reach and read. Where has this GM been all my life?

What makes the C8 quicker is its weight distribution, an ass-heavy 40/60, front/ rear, compared with the previous ratio of about 50/50.

Here we arrive at the casus belli of the entire program: 0-60 mph. In the first critical milliseconds of holeshot acceleration, delta-v is proportional to the percentage of vehicle weight that can be slung over the rear wheels. With the engine up front, the C7 was weight-transfer limited. It could have had a million horsepower and it wouldn’t get any quicker.

Between its short-geared, launch-perfecting DCT and the chassis’s squat-thrust under load, the C8 is a palpable 1.1 seconds quicker to 60 mph on its way to a ¼-mile ticket of 11.2 seconds, according to the brand.

So how is C8 not perfect? The reflections of the tan leather interior on the windshield made our tester just about hazardous; something must be done about that. In various ways the car felt constrained, seemingly in the effort to maintain headroom for more potent variants. The engine rev-limiter/fuel cutoff point seems set artificially low (6,450 rpm).

I suppose the C8 could be accused of excessive refinement, to the point of not being recognizably a Corvette. With the V8 behind its occupants, so too is much of the aural drama. An unprecedented, Lexuslike sophistication inhabits the adaptive suspension, the pillowed upshifts, the muted cabin ambience.

But don’t worry: If you forget it’s a Corvette, people will remind you.

VETTING PROCESS: The long, iconic hood may be gone, but the mid-engine Z51 rivals the speed of much pricier Ferraris.

 

I've ordered it. I'll let you know! But I think polarized sunglasses would take care of most of the issues.

I've sent PMs to owners who have it and they haven't responded. Full dipped is a very rarely selected option. And there are a lot of McLarens and Porsche with a tan dash.

 

I would have thought that GM engineers and designers would have thought the reflection issue thru better. I wonder if it also interferes with the Heads Up display?

Oh well, anyway, I believe anti-reflective dash pads are available in the aftermarket, but that is a bit ghetto.