2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8 Stingray Convertible: How HEAVY is it?
Opposite to what many anticipated, the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8 Stingray Convertible just isn’t a lot heavier than the coupe.
It’s raining C8 Corvette information lately. The newest in line is the load of the convertible model and to everybody’s shock, the drop-top isn’t too heavy in comparison with the coupe. Corvette Discussion board dug up the attention-grabbing piece of information from the official GM booklet. The identical booklet had one other quantity which the drag strip addicts will love – a quarter-mile sprint in 11.three seconds.
We have been talking of the load, weren’t we? Reducing to the chase, the hardtop weighs three,535 lbs and the convertible is barely heavier at three,637 lbs. That’s a 102 lbs enhance which isn’t an enormous distinction whenever you draw parallels with different coupe-convertible siblings out there now.
Lets take a second to applaud GM and its group of Corvette engineers for designing and constructing the C8 Corvette Stingray in such a fashion that the roofless model doesn’t demand any further strengthening? We must always. Often, drop-tops find yourself turning into loads heavier than the hardtops. One way or the other GM succeeded in chopping off the roof with out rising the load considerably.
The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8 Stingray Convertible will retain the identical engine and tune of the coupe. A detachable hardtop and a pair of spectacular buttresses are the most important visible modifications which set it other than the hardtop.
Supply: Corvette Discussion board
