Confirmed: Mid-engine 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8’s title is Stingray
For years, we have referred to Chevrolet’s upcoming C8 Corvette because the mid-engine Corvette. Now, Chevy has given us its correct title, and it is a acquainted one.
The extremely anticipated sports activities automotive will bow this week because the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. Again in 2014, Chevrolet revived the Stingray title for the seventh-generation of the sports activities automotive. The Sting Ray title (discover the area) first debuted on the second-generation Corvette in 1963.
The information was arduous to search out. Posted at this time in a caption for a picture on the Chevrolet media website, the model stated it is “proud to announce the Stingray title will dwell on.”
2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray badge
For now, the information places the kibosh on at the least the entry-level 2020 Chevrolet Corvette arriving because the “Zora.” GM has trademarked the Zora title in quite a few markets, however maybe one other mid-engine Corvette variant will put on the title honoring the long-time Corvette chief engineer.
Though the title will stay, designers have freshened the Stingray badge for the brand new sports activities automotive. In comparison with the C7 Corvette Stingray’s badge, the brand new emblem is sharper with extra edges and does with out the spherical parts that make up the precise stingray. It seems to be like a fittingly sharper badge for what’s anticipated to be a banner sports activities automotive that may pit Chevrolet towards the very best of the world.
2019 Chevrolet C7 Corvette Stingray badge
The 2020 Corvette Stingray will debut this Thursday in Orange County, California. There, we count on to see the brand new Corvette Stingray sport an upgraded 6.2-liter LT1 V-Eight, maybe designated the LT2, with a bump in energy over the present automotive. Keep tuned as we study extra in regards to the automotive by the debut later this week.
