[VIDEO] Doug DeMuro: Is An Even More Powerful C8 Corvette Coming?

Jul 22, 2025

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[VIDEO] Doug DeMuro: Is An Even More Powerful C8 Corvette Coming?

Fresh off the recent tantalizing comments from Chief Executive Engineer Tony Roma that the new ZR1X isn’t the end of the story – just the next chapter, YouTuber Doug DeMuro and some of his Friends offer up their own speculation about future editions of the C8 Corvette in a new episode of “This Car Pod!”

“Everybody on the internet is interpreting (Roma’s comments) to mean that there will be a more powerful version,” says Doug, pausing to say he doesn’t necessarily believe that, instead suggesting a facelift of the current car might be next since the ’26 will mark the seventh year already for the C8.

DeMuro thinks Chevy can’t beat the 1,250 horsepower of the ZR1X, but personally, we’ve learned never to count out the ingenious Bowtie engineers.

While the guys don’t accurately quote the run dates of the C4, C5, and C6, missing them by a year, we’ll forgive them for not being Corvette nerds like us who memorize horsepower numbers and option codes the way kids used to know the batting averages of their favorite baseball players in the ’60s.

Still, it’s interesting to occasionally hear what other folks, looking at it without a biased eye, think about our beloved Corvette.

Doug and his buddies don’t really offer up any new information in the video but do provide some far-out ideas to round out the C8 lineup – like a shooting brake model or a six-wheeler or 2,400 horsepower, for example.

Personally, we wonder if Chevy might pull a trick from the C4 generation – when they introduced something different for three straight years – a new dash in ’90, a new rear end in ’91, and a new engine in ’92. They’ve already done a new dash in ’26; might a refreshed exterior (a la the Grand Sport) be coming in ’27 and then a power boost for the LT2 in ’28? But, on the other hand, do you do all that work for two or three years of increased sales, only to change over to the C9 at the end of the decade? We’re sure Chevy has it all mapped out by now, and we’ll just have to wait to find out.

Doug himself believes that the excitement around the C8 is still going strong, with strong sales, and doesn’t foresee a short run for the eighth generation, like the C6 (2005-13) and C7 (2014-2019). The guys, however, don’t see how Chevy can keep taking the power higher and higher, and might have to just offer special editions, stickers, and appearance packages, “which they are good at.”

Says one of the guys, “you have to look at the Dodge playbook and say, ‘All right, well, we’ll have the Last Call, the Just Kidding edition, the Jailbreak edition. I mean, they just got like insane, but it worked every time, even if you were playing your customers to be suckers, which a lot of them ended up being.”

Regardless, Doug says he’s excited to see “what might lurk” ahead for the Corvette. “I will say the C8 has been immensely successful, immensely popular. The platform has spawned some truly amazing cars. This really has been the resurgence of the Corvette that we haven’t seen since the C2. In our generation, this is like a really, really big thing. And I am curious to see how they continue to iterate, considering they’ve already done all-wheel drive, they’ve done hybrid, they’ve done 1200 horsepower. Like, what else do you do? It’s hard to come up with new ideas.”

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3 COMMENTS

Ronnie Jul 22, 2025 At 8:50 pm

yawn.
Robert Jul 22, 2025 At 11:59 pm

So called car guys like these dudes should at least know the correct years for the different Corvette generations. I wouldn’t go by a damn thing these three bozos have to say about future Corvettes.
IPD Jul 23, 2025 At 7:50 am

Doug is a useful idiot. He’s great when you want to learn about quirks and features. Learn about cars you’d never actually own. But his “doug score” is highly biased and often woefully inaccurate. And his knowledge is frequently lacking. He’s also a heavily biased Porsche-head. That said, he’s correct in that the ZR1X is the end of the C8. There may be tweaks above/beyond how it launched, but there will not be a higher trim tier.