A few weeks ago, we told you about a < AHReF="https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2020/03/24/pic-heres-a-corvette-suv-rendering-we-can-get-behind/">rendering of what an SUV might look like if it was based on a C8 Corvette, according to a YouTube artist named The Sketch Monkey.
Today, that same designer has turned his attention to showing us what the eighth-generation Corvette could have looked like, had Chevy decided to stick with the traditional front-engine layout.
“When the C8 came out, I thought it looked too complex,” The Sketch Monkey explains in the video. “It looks like there were five designers at Chevy who all had a different idea, so management didn’t want to disappoint any of them so they decided to pick the side of one designer, pick the front of one, then the rear of another designer, and the roof and greenhouse of a fourth one, and the fifth one could have been responsible for the side mirrors or something like that.”
What that creates, according to The Sketch Monkey, is “just a mixture of different styles, lines going everywhere, and it just felt too much … like it was trying too hard to be something that it doesn’t really need to be.”
In his redesign, The Sketch Monkey says he wants to respect the original design, the graphics and the graphical layout but simplify the overall design and clean up the side view of the car, in particular.
“I think the side on the C8 Corvette is … the part where it just gets too messy with this blade intake and then you have complex lines in the bottom of the car so what I want to do is just clean it up and bring back the traditional GT lines of the Corvette without trying too hard,” he says. “It’s a Corvette, we know what it is, it doesn’t need to have these extra lines and a lot of styling cues just for the sake of styling.”
The Sketch Monkey does applaud Chevy for “putting out this car at this price point. It can compete with a lot of exotics, and it seems like it’s putting out more power than the official numbers show, which is pretty cool.”
While he acknowledges he’s not the biggest fan of the actual C8 design, he admits it “does look a lot better when you see it in real life compared to photos.”
“That’s pretty much every single car, but specifically when it comes to the C8, I think seeing it on photos it can play with some lines in a way that not necessarily is true,” he says, “and it makes a little bit more sense when you see it in real life.”
As for his redesign, The Sketch Monkey changed the rear wing from a concave to a convex shape for one thing, then created “almost a Camaro shoulder or a sculpted line which has a continuous curvature to it much like the Corvette, and that kind of brings back this brand identity of Chevrolet,” and “last but not least on this redesign I decided to make it a little bit wider than stock so pretty much wide-bodied the C8 Corvette” to give it more of a planted look. He also eliminated the rear air intake blade since it’s not needed on a front-engine car, choosing instead a simple air outlet in the front.
While The Sketch Monkey is pleased with his final result – noting “I have to say it looks pretty good” – we think it’s way too simple and much prefer the C7 design for a front-engine car as well as the actual mid-engine look of the C8. We look forward to hearing your thoughts on this front-engine redesign of the C8. Let us know how you feel!
Source:
TheSketchMonkey / YouTube via CarScoops.com
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You have too much time on your hands. We aren’t likely to see many more C8s as front or rear engine renditions! Plant is closed, Suppliers are closed, no one is staying home so there won’t be anyone here to build, buy, or drive C8s if we don’t start staying home!
Artful but awful. Looks like a pointy Mustang with room for two additional seats.
This what the C8 might have looked like if the accountants instead of the enthusiast engineers would have designed it.
Just because you can Photoshop, doesn’t mean you should.
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