This is normally a big no-no; shifting mid-corner while the car is using all available grip will upset the chassis, cause a momentary loss of traction, and potentially send you into the gravel trap. It didn't matter that he'd pushed one of them to 214 mph at GM's proving grounds in 1964, or that everyone knew he was right; each effort was too bold for GM to produce. Get upfront price offers on local inventory. The C8 Corvette doesn’t perform this same magic trick. With launch control engaged and 61 percent of the weight on the rear tires, the C8 Corvette Z51 shot to 60 mph in a staggering 2.8 seconds on the way to an 11.1-second quarter mile at 123.2 mph. Laut Johnson ist aber noch nicht ausgemacht, ob Corvette in Zukunft bei den ganz langen Rennen wirklich ohne einen Tausch der Beläge und Bremsscheiben auskommen wird. So the road course shows the C8 can rock—I expected nothing less, and it still impressed. review. Our tester added a spattering of likable options: $1,495 carbon-fiber-backed GT2 seats, $1,495 staggered wheels (19s in front, 20s in back), the $1,195 sport exhaust, and $595 red calipers. This is the C8's default move at its limits, even as a mid-engine car with the Z51 package. Just remember that you can swivel it around to your heart's delight in video mode, and don't spend ten minutes complaining about the glare on the screen like I did before realizing that. Was ich sagen kann, ist: Wir haben ein ziemlich breites Fenster, um die Gewichtsverteilung individuell anzupassen.“. It's when pushed to the limit that they fall short. Choosing between auto and manual modes with the dual-clutch eight-speed was harder than I expected. Erik Johnson Writer Steven Pham Photographer. But! It makes 490 horsepower in regular trim, or 495 with the active performance exhaust of our test car (torque is 470 lb-ft with the exhaust, 465 without) and feeds its fusillade to the rear wheels via a Tremec-sourced eight-speed dual-clutch automatic. People were desperate to get a look at it. All this stuff is fascinating to unpack...for us. And this is just the beginning. That said, we had little issue netting 18 mpg in mixed (but very aggressive) driving. It has neither the limit-handling grace of a 718 Cayman or the ESP-assisted Stealth-Fighter moves of a Ferrari 488 Pista. But the folks at GM have an ace up their collective sleeve—the astoundingly good MagneRide adaptive suspension. Not on one particular trim. Robb Holland is a professional racing driver and journalist who splits his time between Germany and Colorado. „2016 veränderte sich das GTE-Reglement in der Art, dass man mit größeren Front- und Heckdiffusoren arbeiten konnte“, sagt Ben Johnson, C8.R-Projektleiter bei Corvette Racing und Teammanager des Corvette-Werksteams. Chevrolet says the pedal travel and resistance characteristics change depending on the driving mode, but we couldn't feel the difference. For decades, we made excuses for the Corvette's foibles, arguing its performance per dollar trumped all else. „Dazu steigt bei dieser Lösung auch der Staudruck im Ansaugsystem des V8-Motors.“ Sein Gegenpart auf der Straßenseite, Ed Piatek, konnte mit dieser Option aber nichts anfangen: „Dann wäre die Sicht nach hinten für den Fahrer völlig verbaut gewesen.“, Vom Lufteinlass in der Heckscheibe profitierte auch das Thermomanagement, da sich die Kühlung für Motor und Getriebe den Platz in den schnittigen Öffnungen der seitlichen Flanken nicht mehr mit der Luftansaugung für den Motor teilen musste. And yet the C8 laid down a blazing 2.8-second 0-to-60-mph run, absolutely crucifying the C7’s 3.9-second performance. It uses dampers filled with a magnetorheological fluid whose viscosity can be changed on the fly with a magnetic current. Sixty percent of the car's weight is over the rear, and the resulting power delivery is immediate without being overwhelming; in sport and track mode, the shifts come in forceful little snaps that don't quite deliver the violence many are probably looking for. Even with the doors open as wide as possible, exiting this car is not a graceful act. The car stops fine, but the brake-by-wire pedal feel isn't reassuring. But since you can't go ten-tenths on a public road, I pointed its shorty nose toward the friendly confines of nearby Spring Mountain Motor Resort. When I arrived at the Cosmopolitan Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip to pick up my test car, I had to literally shove my way through the assembled throng of tourists to get to it. There's a bit of wheel spin before the car attacks the horizon like a blazar jet. And after decades reporting rumors and false starts, we can finally confirm: Chevrolet keeps its promises. The 12.0-inch high-def display is bright and easy to read even in direct sunlight and offers an impressive degree of customizability. A very, very quick start. Those are relatively modest increases in a turbocharged world where a few lines of computer code can add multiples of that—but the Small Block remains an elegantly engineered throwback to a time where engines made great noises and responded instantly. While less advanced than what you'll find on the Chevy Silverado or GMC Sierra, which can shut down all but one cylinder, the C8's ability to stop half its cylinders improves fuel economy while operating with complete invisibility. These are the worst blind spots your author has ever experienced in a car, bar none. Our tester's “GT2” seats were comfortable and supportive, both over long stretches and when tackling a corner, but Chevy stuck the seats in a space that’s just too tight. © 2020 MotorTrend | MOTOR TREND GROUP, LLC. Be extremely patient and roll into the throttle correctly, and the C8 will dig in and push hard off the exit of a corner. The base 1LT ($59,995) model makes do with tricks like one-touch NFC Bluetooth pairing for your phone, a 10-speaker Bose sound system, and Apple CarPlay/Android Auto, while the 2LT ($67,295) and 3LT ($71,945) step it up with wireless charging, standard heated/vented seats, and the pièce de résistance: the Performance Data Recorder. Put simply, the C8 is no drift car. Entire states could disappear into the C8's blind spots. But the Stingray is only the beginning. The Michelin Pilot Sport 4S rubber on our Z51-equipped car doggedly sticks (and sticks and sticks) to pavement of all types and conditions. Sport adds red accents and moves the speedo out of the center of the tach, replacing it with a gear indicator. Even if you don't golf, though, the 12.6 cubic feet of cargo space split between the front and rear areas make this an eminently useful performance car. MagneRide proved every bit the match for ruined desert roads and made the Corvette super stable at any speed without grinding both driver and passenger into the pavement. Designed and built by the legends at Cosworth Engineering, the PDR is a video-based driving analysis tool similar to the ones used in motorsports (in fact, it's almost identical to their system that debuted in the British Touring Car Championships a few years back). The LT2 V8 packs 495 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque, helping the 3,366-pound C8 scamper to 60 in around 3.0 seconds (the Z51 package enables a sub-3.0-second sprint), but numbers are a poor substitute for experiencing this engine. So was he right? The brilliant red leather seats look fantastic, but we have to salute Chevy's designers for mixing materials so cleanly. Turn 2 is a sharply decreasing radius corner, and to get the car to turn in near the end you have to quickly lift off throttle to set the nose. It's a formidable pairing: In Z51 cars like ours, the run from zero to 60 mph, as you may have heard, takes just 2.8 seconds as measured by our friends at MotorTrend. Ein Hintergedanke: Bisher gab es in Le Mans wegen der Boxenstoppregeln keinen direkten Penalty für einen Bremsentausch – doch das ändert sich mit den neuen Regeln für 2020. As with other dual-clutch gearboxes, there are two separate, computer-controlled clutch packs and input shafts for the odd and even gear sets. With the take rate for manuals on the C7 below 20 percent and sliding, GM didn't see a business case in engineering a second gearbox for an all-new platform with an entirely different engine placement. Personally, we dig the look. Second maxes at 55 mph. And anyway, it's not like this will be only C8 – Chevy has plenty of time to bring out sharper, better-balanced Corvettes. Die Mittelmotor-Position schafft mehr Freiheiten bei der Aerodynamik. Not as part of a package. And what of the possible 1,000-horsepower AWD hybrid? Außerdem optimiert die austretende Kühlluft die Anströmung zur Heckpartie – das war also ein wichtiger Sprung beim Thermomanagement und beim Aeropaket.“, Eine weitere wichtige Änderung im Vergleich zur alten C7.R betraf die Bremsanlage: Corvette Racing folgte hier bei der Auswahl des Zulieferers einem Trend, der bereits von Aston Martin gesetzt worden war: Statt Brembo ist nun Alcon der Zulieferer für die deutlich größer dimensionierte Bremsanlage. Since understeer can be interpreted as “stability,” several of our editors suspected that this handling characteristic may have been engineered in on purpose by GM to ensure that C8 buyers who have never driven a mid-engine car won’t immediately wrap it around a tree. The only way forward was to move the engine backward. So you'll either break yourself trying to squeeze through the gap or ding up your door by opening it too wide. The C8 loses a point for its tight cargo holds. EXCLUSIVE: 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray First Test: The C8 Keeps Its Promises, Control arms, coil springs, adj shocks, anti-roll bar; control arms, coil springs, adj shocks, anti-roll bar, 13.3-in vented disc; 13.8-in vented disc, ABS, 245/35R19 89Y; 305/30R20 99Y Michelin Pilot Sport 4S, 6: Dual front, front side, front side/head. It's perfectly balanced with beautiful mid-corner rotation; overall, the next-level handling that comes with a mid-engine platform is proof enough that Duntov was right all along. Launch-control starts are a matter of pressing the stability-control button twice while in Track mode to activate Performance Traction Management (or the Competitive stability-control setting in lesser versions), standing on the pedals, and releasing the brake. The vast majority of C8s sold will be base Stingrays. The base Stingray gets a mechanical setup, while Z51 equipped cars get eLSD, which comes with a higher final drive ratio of 5.17:1 for quicker acceleration.