This is what the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8 sounds like

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The 2020 Chevy Corvette is nearly ready for public consumption. Before that happens, the Road & Track crew got their mitts on the car. The C8 was up in Northern California as part of the fleet for R&T’s annual Performance Car of the Year testing. Matt Farah was on hand as part of this team, which means he got a fair bit of seat time in the new ‘Vette. He can’t tell us what it’s like to drive, but he can let us listen in and hear what it sounds like to drive.

That noise comes courtesy of a 6.2-liter small block V8 engine that Chevy has dubbed the LT2. On this C8 Corvette Z51, the LT2 produces 495 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque. And that aural entertainment is bouncing off the golden hills that surround Thunderhill raceway’s West track.

Some other takeaways from the video above:

  • Turn-in seems quite sharp.
  • The car looks quick.
  • The C8 might just be pretty damn stunning, especially when you consider it’s essentially a mid-engine supercar that costs well under $100k.

We will have to wait a few weeks to hear what people think about the car. The embargo for talking about it lifts on October 16th.

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Jeff Glucker

Jeff Glucker

Jeff Glucker is the co-founder and Executive Editor of Hooniverse.com. He’s often seen getting passed as he hustles a 1991 Mitsubishi Montero up the 405 Freeway. IG: @HooniverseJeff

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5 responses to “This is what the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8 sounds like”

  1. Peter Tanshanomi Avatar
    Peter Tanshanomi

    Wow. If I have to start wanting a Corvette, I am going to be SO MAD at all you guys.

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    1. Zentropy Avatar
      Zentropy

      Ha! My thoughts exactly. Sounds better than I expected, though it doesn’t exactly stir the soul.

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      1. Mark Thompson Avatar
        Mark Thompson

        What’s the redline, or effective redline when power drops off, on that thing? My ear isn’t really attuned to car engines, but it doesn’t seem to rev very high.

        Also, did anyone else notice Matt bouncing off the rev limiter (or coming very close) late in the lap? I’m weird in that when I’m on track on a bike or a car that I probably run a gear higher many places on the track than the guys going for max speed as I try to limit shifting and just ride the torque. I might be different if I had a chance at a car w/ paddle shifters, but even on a bike with a quickshifter I tend to try running fast with a minimum of shifting.

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        1. Zentropy Avatar
          Zentropy

          I didn’t notice him hitting the limiter. In fact, it seemed to me like he was short-shifting it most of the time (perhaps he was told to go easy). He got loose once or twice, but really wasn’t driving very aggressively. I remember seeing a dyno curve of the LT2, and it didn’t look like a screamer, with a sweet spot below 5000 rpm.

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          Zentropy

          I didn’t notice him hitting the limiter. In fact, it seemed to me like he was short-shifting it most of the time (perhaps he was told to go easy). He got loose once or twice, but really wasn’t driving very aggressively. I remember seeing a dyno curve of the LT2, and it didn’t look like a screamer, with a sweet spot below 5000 rpm.

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