[SPIED] Testing the 2024 Corvette E-Ray with the Top Down During a Blizzard

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[SPIED] Testing the 2024 Corvette E-Ray with the Top Down During a Blizzard


Check out this crazy video posted on motorbiscuit.com that shows a mid-engine Corvette convertible badged as a Z06 rolling along a Detroit interstate in the middle of a blizzard – with the top down!

Motor Biscuit writer Henry Cesari explains that he and his brother were headed to the airport and had already passed several crashes in the snowstorm when they spotted the Chevy supercar up ahead

Ever the enterprising reporter, Cesari quickly pulled out his phone and shot a quick video of the Corvette, noticing that a middle-aged man and a child were inside the car, looking like “they were having a grand old time,” as they traveled with the hardtop convertible open to the elements.

Henry thought the driver was “awfully confident” to be driving a 670-horsepower Z06 during a blizzard, but his brother pointed out that the car had an “M” plate (a specially issued manufacturer license plate) on the back.

The gears then started to shift in Henry’s mind and he began to wonder if they were actually witnessing a late-stage road test for the recently announced 2024 E-Ray, cleverly disguised as a Z06 by those sneaky GM engineers.

[SPIED] Testing the 2024 Corvette E-Ray with the Top Down During a Blizzard


The E-Ray, of course, will feature all-wheel drive, becoming the first hybrid Corvette with a 160-horsepower electric motor powering the front wheels, so handling a Michigan blizzard should be easy pickin’s for Chevy’s latest variant of its mid-engine supercar.

To support that theory, Henry says he did a bit of digging and found a GM Authority post claiming Chevy has actually been placing Z06 badges on Corvette E-Ray prototypes so it can test them out in public without camouflage.

“I’m sure the engineer driving the M Plate Corvette was competent enough to handle one of the most powerful sports cars ever built, in the snow,” Henry says. “But the fact that he had his kid along for the ride makes me wonder if he knew something the rest of us didn’t.”

The daring road trip on “a casual family cruise during a blizzard … certainly gives me a lot more confidence in this upcoming supercar’s capabilities,” Henry concluded. Since the E-Ray and Z06 basically share the same widebody and this Hypersonic Gray convertible was handling blizzard conditions quite easily, it seems plausible to us that the two men did indeed witness an E-Ray, not a Z06 as advertised.


Source:
MotorBiscuit.com

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  2. Was the exhaust in the middle or the outside? Difficult to confirm from the video. Pretty sure E-RAY is on the outside and Z06 is one the middle. Figure that out and you have your answer

  3. This has got to rank up there as one of the top ten most retarded things anybody has done with a Corvette. C3 aftermarket specials included.

  4. Now that is some serious friggen testing going on there, how many Ford GT’s do you see or Hellcats or Shelby’s for that matter.

  5. The majority of Corvette owners would never drive in the snow. Mine hardly gets around on cold days in the winter with summer tires. Maybe they are warming up the public on the idea of a 4 wheel drive off road Corvette SUV.

  7. The new E-ray is a Hybrid or EV? Hybrid I can understand as we own a XLE Camry and are very impressed with everything about it.

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