Yahoo Autos See and Hear the Mid-Engined Chevrolet Corvette C8 Prototype Take a Rip
Now that the mid-engined Corvette C8 is officially a thing, Chevrolet is publicly showing it off (sort of).
This video shows the camouflaged car driving around the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, giving us a chance to listen to its V-8 exhaust note.
The mid-engined 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8 will make its official, camo-free debut July 18 and go on sale sometime in late 2019.
After posing for a photo-op at the Corvette factory in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Chevrolet's camouflaged mid-engined C8 Corvette prototype went for a spin at a place where it was sure to garner a reaction: the National Corvette Museum, just across the street. Onlookers cheered, gawked, and snapped photos of the sports car as it looped around the front of the museum and then exited the premises, making a brief-and revealing-acceleration run on its way out. Luckily, the Vette brap was caught on video, which we've embedded here.
Since a camouflaged car in motion is as revealing, visually, as a stationary camouflaged car, the video's real bounty is the C8's exhaust note. (So, turn your sound on.) We can clearly hear the sound of a V-8 roar, and a familiar one at that-it sounds just like the current C7 Corvette's 6.2-liter LT1 V-8, right down to the dual-mode exhaust that you can hear switching over to its louder setting at the end of the video. As we've reported before, this is the engine we believe the mid-engine Vette will come standard with, at least initially; expect some upgrades to increase the engine's output beyond the C7's 460 horsepower, which should be enough to change the V-8's name to LT2.
The quick shifts we can hear at the end of the video also reinforce speculation that the C8 Corvette will use a dual-clutch automatic transmission, a Corvette first. Rumored to be a seven-speed unit from Tremec, this gearbox will be the only transmission choice. Sadly, Chevrolet sadly plans to drop the manual transmission from the lineup entirely.
Stay tuned for more to come on the next-generation Corvette, as we're sure to get plenty more teasers and tidbits leading up to its debut in a few months.
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