After decades of speculation and rumors, Corvette, the 66-year-old American sports car, has joined its European competitors by going mid-engine.
Corvette engineers, designers, top General Motors brass and dealers from around the country packed the Tustin Hangars in Southern California Thursday evening for the hotly-anticipated reveal. Chevrolet had teased the new design for months, carefully releasing images of a camouflaged eighth-generation Corvette on social media.
Bennion and the other designers were told to develop a new architecture that was compelling and aggressive but also retain certain Corvette design cues. The 2020 Stingray still keeps the classic Corvette Coke bottle shape, muscular fenders, tapered upper fastback profile and high water line. "The Corvette is unique among high-performance cars in that it's aspirational, but also obtainable to many Americans," he said."Unlike some German, Italian, and Japanese sports cars, you could realistically envision having a poster of a Corvette on your wall as a kid and in your garage as an adult. What's better, Corvette has consistently delivered performance that matches, if not bests, sports cars and exotics that cost up to three times as much.
The 2020 Stingray still packs the power and performance that Corvette has consistently delivered over the decades. The 6.2L small block naturally aspirated V8 LT2 engine produces 495 horsepower and 470 lb.-feet of torque when equipped with the performance exhaust -- the most horsepower and torque for any entry-level Corvette, according to Chevrolet.
"It's super responsive," he told ABC News."The steering feels more direct. You can feel the road. The paddle shifters are lightning fast -- the car holds the gears. It has great downward vision ... the visibility is better than the C7.""We will no longer be class leading in cargo space," he said. But the dual trunks still offer space for two sets of golf clubs.
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