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Doug DeMuro didn’t even try to hide his excitement when the topic shifted to Chevrolet’s newest headline grabber. On the latest episode of This Car Pod!, the YouTube star dove straight into what he called “one of the single greatest comeback stories in the history of the automobile”—the return of the Corvette Grand Sport for 2027.
Chevy had finally released full details, and DeMuro and co-host Filipo were ready to pick them apart. The big news: a new 6.7-liter V8, dubbed the LS6, making 535 horsepower. That’s a 40-horse bump over the current Stingray, which already rockets from 0–60 in 2.9 seconds. “How is a regular Corvette that now costs $55,000 used doing 2.9 to 60,” Filipo said, and now Chevy is adding more power?
For DeMuro, the C8 generation has rewritten everything. The C7, he said, had taken the old front engine formula as far as it could go. But the mid-engine C8? “It’s the hottest car in the market,” he said. “Six years the C8 has been on sale, and it’s still the coolest thing on the road and they’re still coming out with new variants that are still tremendously exciting.”
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The Grand Sport slots right into that momentum. Starting at $88,495, or $109,000 with the track performance package, it brings the Z06’s wide body stance, carbon ceramic brakes, carbon fiber aero, and those signature Grand Sport stripes. There’s even an all wheel drive variant—an “E-Ray Grand Sport.”
Filipo, the show’s resident Corvette loyalist, shrugged when asked if he was excited about the new Grand Sport. DeMuro, on the other hand, was quick to say “this is the Corvette to have,” he said. “Z06 and ZR1 are awesome, but they’re not practically faster than this car. Like on a day-to-day use-the-car-speed basis, you will never experience the difference. This looks like a Z06, it has the cool stripes, it’s like a limited production cool car, but you’re still not in a base Corvette. You’re still in like something special. This is the one that you will end up with in 18 years.”
Filipo disagrees, saying he’ll end up in a Grand Sport X.
“The story of the C8 that isn’t told,” DeMuro insists, “is that the best C8 that exists is the hybrids, but no one wants any part of them. Right?”
“Yeah,” Filipo replies.
“They don’t get enough respect,” Doug concludes.
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Doug, It depends on many things so “maybe” or “maybe not”
Doug was 100% complicit in the reception the E-Ray got. He straight up said there was no point to it–and that one should either save the money and get a Stingray, or spend the money on a Z06. Yet when it came to the ZR1X, he was suddenly all about the hybrid performance.
Doug is a blithering idiot. A fool who got lucky and was able to flip his company for a few quick bucks–so he can afford his beloved Porsches. It’s also telling that he’s gushing over a glorified SR with a 15k premium–after putting down the E-Ray as unjustified and pointless. If you take this man seriously in any way–you’re being mislead.
The mere fact that the E-Ray died and was rebranded as a Grand Sport X is entirely because of shysters like Doug.
I love it [/s] when people think their personal opinions are like a law of the universe. If Doug thinks the GS “is the one to have” then good for him. But for him to think that makes it true for everyone else is just egomania. There’s no such thing as the “best” Corvette, or even the best C8. There’s only “best” for one’s intended use, and one’s personal likes and dislikes.
I have zero use for the extra noise the wider tires create (and yes, I’ve spent plenty of time in widebody C8s and C7s), or the worse vision the gargantuan rear fenders cause when trying to back into a parking space. I’m never going to seriously track my C8, and the Stingray has far more performance one can ever exhaust on the street.
Doug, grow up and realize your opinion is just that, your OPINION, and not an inviolable fact.
Oh, and his comment that “Like on a day-to-day use-the-car-speed basis, you will never experience the difference” between the GS and a Z06 is completely false. You’ll never get the Z06 startup bark or the wail of it’s redline in the GS. What IS true is that in day-to-day use you’ll never notice the difference between a GS and a Stingray, except for the extra tire noise. On the street, the Stingray does everything you can ever ask it to do.
Yes that’s my OPINION. And I don’t claim everyone else should feel the same way.
Sorry. Turbocharging is where it’s at…