All it Does is Win: Corvette E-Ray Named 2024’s Best Performance Car by The Drive

Automotive awards season is in full swing, and we’re here to tell you that even going into year five, the C8 Corvette is still Sally Field; the motoring press likes it, they really like it! Fresh off its fifth-straight (and 10th in 11 years, if you include the C7 that was undefeated except for its Junior year of 2016) Car and Driver 10Best nod, the Mid-Engine Corvette is taking home another piece of hardware!

As a part of their second-annual Golden Slash Awards, the staff of The/Drive has concluded that the all-new Corvette E-Ray is the Best Performance Car on sale today and their favorite way to go fast, defending the Z06’s crown from one year ago. The E-Ray earned this honor by “introducing hybrid electricity to America’s sports car for the first time,” thus bringing “technology and pace once reserved for seven-figure hypercars down to the relative masses.”

They continue with more PR brochure-worthy quotes, tidbits, and fun facts, including the following from their original review; “The E-Ray is easily the cheapest hybrid supercar out there, and it’s quicker than many of them too. For God’s sake, it’s as quick to 60 mph as the McLaren P1 but for less than one-tenth of the price,” and this; “Keep in mind that for the $106,595 the E-Ray starts at, you can’t even get a base Porsche 911.” If you weren’t already sold on the revolutionary E-Ray, that evidence is pretty tough to argue with!

The Hybrid AWD Corvette beat out the off-road-ready Porsche 911 Dakar, the 500-pony Ford Mustang Dark Horse, the reborn Acura Integra Type S, and the 570S-replacing McLaren Artura for the award. Other big-name Golden Slash winners include a fellow Chevy in the Best Truck-winning Silverado HD and the Porsche Cayenne, which took home the Best SUV award. Those victors were joined by the Hyundai Ioniq 6 as EV of the year, the fifth-gen Toyota Prius that was named Best Car $40k, and one of the industry’s most interesting awards: the Volvo V60 Cross Country wagon, which took home the prestigious Top Dog Car of 2023 crown.

All of these accolades have us thinking; the recently announced suspension of Corvette Plant tours is probably happening to give Chevrolet a chance to expand the ‘Vette’s trophy room!

Source:
The Drive

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