MotorTrend: Corvette SUV and a Concept EV to be Revealed in 2024

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MotorTrend: Corvette SUV and a Concept EV to be Revealed in 2024

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General Motors’ long-time CEO Mary Barra won’t blow the whistle on future products, like a long-rumored Corvette SUV.

As expected, during an Automotive Press Association event in Detroit this week, the 61-year-old GM leader said no comment about future products to MotorTrend when asked whether the Corvette lineup would be growing even more to include a sport utility vehicle.

But that didn’t stop MotorTrend from revealing what its sources are telling them about these future vehicles.

The popular automotive publication says it has been told “if the [Corvette] SUV is real, we should expect to see it in 2024,” going on to note: “Corvette buyers are aging and climbing into an SUV is easier than clambering into a low-slung coupe. An SUV also affords more room for passengers and their stuff. But the automaker is aware that a performance SUV must perform like the sports car it sprang from. Think about Porsche SUVs, which are engineered to drive like a true Porsche.”

MotorTrend believes the new year will be a big one for Corvette, predicting that after the SUV is revealed, GM will offer its first look at an electric Corvette concept before Dec. 31, 2024.

This concept EV “will be instantly recognizable as a C8,” MT claims, “but with nods to previous generations. And GM will also use the opportunity to come up with a new look for the future in the hopes the EV will draw in a younger buyer.”

The current C8 has already sliced the average age of buyers of new Corvettes, and GM is hoping to lower that number even more, giving the company more time to try to keep youthful C8 owners handing their dollars over to them.


Interestingly, the MotorTrend article made no mention of the ZR1 or the rumored Grand Sport. A less expensive widebody edition of the Stingray – as was the case with the C6 and C7 Grand Sports – would seem to fill a niche in the lineup below the more expensive Z06 and E-Ray.

Barra, who will have been CEO of GM for 10 years on Jan. 25, 2024, set a public goal of going all electric by 2035. With consumers taking longer to warm up to the idea of EVs, the company is slowing EV production but not throwing in the towel by any means.

“We’re in the early days,” she said Monday at the APA event. “We’re still on the first lap. The customer is rational. This is really an expensive purchase for them…We’re still going to be continuing to grow. We’re not ceding any ground.”


Source:
MotorTrend

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9 COMMENTS

  1. Chevrolet must think every soccer mom wants a Vette. I’m 79 and can still get in and out of my 2023 HTC Z51 without putting the top down.

  4. EV’s days are numbered, once they realize that we do not have the infer structure to support all the electricity needed to charge any large number of electric vehicles. Plus there was a recent article in the Washington Times stating that each EV made costs the American taxpayer $50,000 in subsidies, which is not sustainable. In addition, the environmental disaster involved in mining the raw materials used (and controlled by the Chinese) to produce the batteries used in the EVs. And there is no demand for electric vehicles, so hopefully GM doesn’t bank too much on EV futures.

  5. MT is just click bait. They have no idea what the buyers want. As Bara and the other auto CEOs are finding out, they and the government can’t jamb this EV crap down the consumers throat. I myself will never be found in another bubble top soccer mom SUV.

  6. I am 78 years old and have owned eleven Corvettes including a 2020 C-8 , vin # 5046 appox. Ms. Barra, it would be a great move for GM to increase market share if it produced a Corvette SUV so I can trade my second Jaguar F Pace in for a performance SUV made in America by a U.S. company ( e.g. too many BMW’s around . I know many Porsche owners who feel the same way. Go GM !!!!

  7. As a current 2023 Z06 owner I like what is pictured here and would buy one if it is real. If the EV ever becomes a reality, I will give it a look. While I love my LT6 and enjoy listening to the flat plane crank engine more than music, I would never give it up but would consider an AWD EV Corvette. At 73, technology doesn’t scare me and EV’s are coming like it or not.

  8. Any car manufacturer that says they’re going to go all EV by such-and-such date is just headed to bankruptcy. The dirty little secret the media and gov’t keep buried is all the damage mining for ores does to the planet, not to mention the gas/oil needed to mine, the issue of properly disposing of used batteries, and the worst – the COST to replace batteries in 5-7 years. I’ve read some Tesla batteries cost up to $20,000!!!! Most American’s can’t write a check for $600 and you think these people have $20K lying around??

    Dodge will be bankrupt soon being they’re going 100% EV. Just look at Ford and the F-150 Lightning EV…they are literally stuck with them because nobody wants them.

    EVs are a niche market…our liberal government and media preaching that we ALL need to be in EVs is ludicrous.

  9. I don’t understand why so many people are against GM making a Corvette SUV, it’s not like they are not going to make the sports car, I currently own 2 corvettes, a Silverado and an Equinox, I have been a Chevy guy since my first one when I turned 16, a 64 Malibu I bought for $100 in 1975, I like sporty vehicles and welcome the chance to buy a Corvette SUV, bring it on.

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