The 2024 Corvette E-Ray is Competing for Road and Track’s Performance Car of the Year

It’s “OTY” season in the Automotive Journalism game. Just like Christmas morning, that means pushing through a few snoozers like unwrapping a pack of socks or C&D’s new EV of the Year, but it also means introductions to helpful new long-term fleet vehicles, that lead to eye-popping nuggets like this one on the cost of in-car subscription features, and best of all, it means the most can’t-miss content of the year where names like Lightning Lap and the various Performance Car awards arrive to brighten this darkest corner of the calendar!

One of the most consistently great stories in this cornucopia of high-revving joy comes from our friends at Road & Track. Their Performance Car of the Year has become one of the world’s best proving grounds for the industry’s hottest new enthusiast driving machines. Since the headlining event’s inception in 2013, the Chevrolet Corvette has been the most successful nameplate at PCOTY, taking home top honors with the 2014 C7 Stingray and 2019 C7 ZR1. It also enters 2024 with the 2023 C8 Z06 reigning as the defending champion!

Format Change Alert! This particular super test has been split into over and sub-$100k groups so that the writers don’t have to stretch everyone’s imagination by comparing a WRX with a McLaren 765LT. This amendment will also save R&T editors from another situation where they end up picking a Hyundai for the blue ribbon over cars that no sane person would pass over for said Korean hatchback.

Defending the Corvette’s crown in the new heavyweight (over $100,000) division will be the first-ever all-wheel-drive, hybrid Corvette, the 2024 E-Ray. The only other semi-reasonable competitor meeting the $143,115 Corvette this year will be the $128,290 manual transmission Porsche 911 Carrera T. Those two aspirational every-man specials will have their work cut out for them in the high-end group with such heavy hitters as the $507,751 (for a V6!) Ferrari 296 GTB, the off-road-focused Lamborghini Huracán Sterrato that retails for $384,394, and the $383,570, single-seat, open-air, 1,257-lb. BAC Mono track special joining the fold!

In the low-brow league where the E-Ray wishes it more closely adhered to the Grand Sport’s old pricing strategy, we’ll see the $75,345 BMW M2, the Acura Integra Type S, which at $52,595 is the test’s most attainable offering, and the shockingly expensive one-two punch of the Mustang Dark Horse and the Nissan Z Nismo with respective stickers of $71,585 and $68,280!

Stay tuned for the full test results in the coming weeks, and get your Corvette #1 foam fingers and face paint ready!

Source:
roadandtrack.com

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