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The Corvette C8 was named 2020 Motor Trend Car of the Year, [77] and was also featured on 2020 Car and Driver 10Best. [78] The C8 was also named 2020 North American Car of the Year, [79] 2020 Detroit Free Press Car of the Year, [80] 2020 MotorWeek Drivers' Choice Best of the Year, [81] and Edmunds Top Rated Sports Car for 2020 [82] and 2021. [83]
The base engine is the 6.2 liter naturally aspirated LT2 V8, which generates 465 hp (347 kW; 471 PS) and 470 lb⋅ft (637 N⋅m) of torque when equipped with either the performance exhaust package or Z51 performance package. The C8 is the first Corvette to be offered without a traditional manual transmission since all 1982 Corvettes were built ...
The car was built to GT3 specifications and made its competitive debut at the 2024 24 Hours of Daytona. [2] The car serves as the replacement to the Corvette C8.R, which was retired following the discontinuation of the GTE class. As with its immediate predecessor, it uses the C8 generation Chevrolet Corvette as a base. [3] [4]
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It serves as the replacement for the Corvette C7.R, using the C8 generation Chevrolet Corvette as a base. Corvette Racing fielded the C8.R in the IMSA SportsCar Championship GT Le Mans (GTLM) class starting with the 2020 season. [2] [3] The car was built to LM GTE specifications as per GTLM rules.
In 1990, GM finally introduced their ZR-1 Corvette which obtained similar performance characteristics as the 1989 Callaway Twin-Turbo option. Although power was up to 390 hp (291 kW) and 562 lb⋅ft (762 N⋅m) of torque, 1990 saw the lowest number of (B2K) Callaway Twin Turbo Corvettes ordered: 59 were ordered, with only 58 actually built.