2020 Chevy Corvette Stingray: The Right Design (Still Looks Like A Vette)
The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is the first mid-engine Vette in history.Â
With an LT2 Small Block V8, the new Stingray is the fastest entry-level Vette ever.Â
Prior to its on-sale date, the performance car will embark on a cross-country tour.Â
In a bunch of ways, how a Corvette looks is more important than nearly anything else about the car. Corvette fans are amazingly picky about this, and if it doesn’t “look like a Vette” they would most likely riot. Moving the engine from the front to the middle causes all sorts of design re-dos and re-thinks, so GM had to pull off a huge task here. And it looks like they succeeded with the 2020 Chevy Corvette Stingray.
If anything, the Vette’s biggest design failing (and it’s not much of one) is that it looks like a mid-engine supercar. But given the demands of engineering, packaging, and aerodynamics, that was bound to happen anyway. 2020 Chevy Corvette Stingray: Bold & Futuristic
Chevy says the 2020 Corvette Stingray is a “bold, futuristic expression with mid-engine exotic proportions, but it is still unmistakably Corvette.” And they’re right. The front end, the tail, and even the overall stance all say Vette to my eyes. It just looks like a Vette with the greenhouse moved further forward. Chevy also says it?s “lean and muscular, with an athletic sculptural shape conveying a sense of motion and power from every angle.” I’m not going to argue with that ei...
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