General Motors Tried to Build a Four-Seat Corvette in 1962
The concept was abandoned almost immediately to focus on the two-seat C2 we know today. GM Design / Instagram
For nearly 60 years, America s car magazines were of a firm belief: General Motors seemed to be no more than 18 months from replacing whatever their Corvette of the day was with a completely new mid-engined offering. This did not actually happen until the 2020 model year, but it did eventually happen. Thankfully, the same cannot be said about GM s other attempt to put something behind the driver s seat in the early Sixties.
This is a four-seat C2 Corvette, modeled in 1962 and shown in color this week on GM Design s official Instagram page. While the final C2 line ended up focusing heavily on serious sports car performance at a surprisingly low price point, the four-seat variant shown here previews a world where Corvette instead pivoted toward a grand touring future in response to Ford s then-successful Thunderbir
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Chevy Is Benchmarking the C8 Corvette Z06 Against the Ferrari 458 and 911 GT2 RS
They sound pretty mean. Corvette: Sales, News, Lifestyle on YouTube
The C8 Chevy Corvette is already ridiculously quick. Even with the base engine, it ll hit 60 in under 3 seconds. Yet that s not enough speed for Chevy, so we ll likely see Z06 and ZR1 variants in the near future. And if the company they keep is any indication, they should be quite quick. More C8 Stories To Hold You Over
In a new video posted by Corvette Blogger, you can see a fleet of prototypes parked at a hotel in Ohio. They re covered in camouflage and, initially, tarps. But when you peak past that, you see quad, center-mounted exhausts that help distinguish them from the normal C8 and its more conventionally placed quad pipes. Plus, the fact that they re heavily camo d and protected confirms that they re something special. But the most interesting vehicles in the video are the two cars Chevy has brought along on the drive: