🚘 Automotive The official C8 Corvette thread

[Yaj Yak]

M/T tested the car , it runs hard for the power it makes
0-60 2.8 Sec
1/4 mile at 11.1@ 123.2

EXCLUSIVE: 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray First Test: The C8 Keeps Its Promises - Motor Trend

And after decades reporting rumors and false starts on the mid-engine Corvette, we can finally confirm: Chevrolet keeps its promises.

www.motortrend.com

goddamn these things are gonna hit more crowds than mustangs ever will.

 

[Kensington]

Yeah, not really surprised they dialed in loads of understeer...assuming they don't want all of their clients in ditches and wrapped around trees.

With the traction control off, it should make for some interesting cars and coffee exits...

 

[jason05gt]

2020 Corvette C8 Stingray Z51: First Drive

Not great, but good. And a sign of amazing things to come.

www.roadandtrack.com

Good but not yet great. Really good review.

I feel like that's the Corvette business model. The launch model is good, but get's great when the enhancements from the ZR1 and Z06 trickle down.

 

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goddamn these things are gonna hit more crowds than mustangs ever will.

 

[Mook]

Here is it on the track, sorry cant embed.

Take a Hot Lap in the 2020 C8 Corvette

As part of PCOTY testing, we timed the mid-engine Corvette at Thunderhill West. Here's our quickest lap.

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[Mook]

 

[DEEZUZ]

Dat dude reviewing cars like this and he live in a double wide...?

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

MotorTrend broke the embargo.

Cool.

Did they really? What was the embargo date? Wonderz what kind of fine that entails

 

[Mook]

Embargo lifted today.

 

[Mook]

Or was supposed to.

 

[Rent Free]

Ill just go ahead and say I hope the Union gained nothing.

 

[Mook]

2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8 vs. 2020 Porsche 911 Comparison Test Review

Nearly everything about the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Z51 and 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S is effectively equal—on paper.

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[Yaj Yak]

It's just one of the ways in which the Corvette's cabin is nicer than the 911's, a sentence we feared we'd never get to write. The Corvette's notoriously cheap materials, gaping panel gaps, and persistent smell of glue have all been banished—and this was in an early-build car, no less.


Pigs are fucking flying.

 

[Yaj Yak]

It's always been easy to write off the Corvette as producing big numbers with all the grace of 12-pound sledge. No more. If you're willing to give up a little bit of steering feel and learn to work around the brake pedal, you'll find far more car to love in the Corvette. Performance per dollar used to be an excuse to brush away the Corvette's shortcomings. Now, it's a virtue. Exotic and attainable, it finally punches above its weight class in every category, not just one. When it's this damn good, money matters. The Corvette isn't good enough for the price. It's unbeatable.

 

[Rent Free]

Annnnnnd the GT500s fucked for the kind of money they want for that thing!



Cant wait to see one of these C8s in person!

 

[Lead Pipe]

So I found zero C8's in Bowling Green other than this mule in the museum. Worked still picketing outside the plant entrance. Look at the mule though, I think it's going to be a tight fit shoulder wise...

 

[Lead Pipe]

And in today's WTF news. No way this think makes 600+ bhp or even 565. I can buy it makes a bit over 500 but come on...

2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8 Dyno Test: How Much Power Does It Really Make? - Motor Trend

On the other side of the window, a red 2020 Chevrolet Corvette is strapped to the dyno with its rear wheels spinning very, very fast.

www.motortrend.com

Also I read the comments about under steer. Apparently Harlan Charles has already said GM will provide alignment specs for racing to eliminate the under steer.

 

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It's MT, what do you expect?

 

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The 1/4 mile numbers show truth and 123mph trap speed puts that car right in the high 400hp range, MT is full of fools reporting trash.

 

[bikrboy128]

I can't believe gm would under rate it by that much

 

[Rent Free]

Ill take 600hp 60k midengine C8 !!

LOL

 

[Lead Pipe]

The 1/4 mile numbers show truth and 123mph trap speed puts that car right in the high 400hp range, MT is full of fools reporting trash.

At 3650 it would need a 500+. I think it makes more than 495 but not 565. Maybe 515-525.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

I could see near 500rwhp as a factory freak. But 560rwhp just isn't happening on a 6.2L NA with an emissions compatible cam. Especially since they say it only revs out to about 6600rpm redline.

 

[Mook]

 

[Lead Pipe]

Supposedly this one was at the Ikea in Schaumburg last Saturday and was seen at Mecum.