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Today is National Corvette Day and Chevrolet choose today to reveal the 2027 Corvette Stingray’s newest feature: a 200+ MPH Top Speed!
Chevrolet just made it a whole lot easier (and cheaper) to go 200+ MPH, and they did it with the base 2027 Corvette Stingray that has a starting MSRP of $73,495. Chevy says at that price point, the ’27 Stingray is the “most-attainable 200-mph capable vehicle currently on sale.”
Chevrolet attained the top speed with a non-Z51 Corvette Stingray as the base car in the C8 lineup features a unique mix of high power and low drag. A Stingray with the Z51 Performance Package adds more downforce which keeps it from surpassing the double century mark. Previously, the Stingray’s top speed would top out at 194 MPH.
But that’s not all they have chosen to reveal on this special day.
The new performance figures featuring the 2027 Corvette Stingray shows that it’s capable of a 2.8-second 0-60 MPH time, and it can run the quarter mile in 11.0-seconds at 124 mph.
In an interview with GM News, small block assistant chief engineer Mike Kociba explained that the bump in power provided by the new LS6 6.7L V8 proved critical to the 2027 Corvette Stingray edging past 200:
“That’s all power,” Kociba said. “The record really shows the strength of the LS6, an engine that we set out to create a unique place in the Corvette lineup.”
Eagle-eye watchers noticed that the above Instagram post is all about the Stingray, but the car shown in the video is a wide-body Corvette with Center exhaust. We are still waiting for the performance specs of the Grand Sport so perhaps we’ll see them soon as well?
The new small block LS6 offers more power, displacement, and torque over the outgoing 6.2-liter LT2 V8 engine. The new engine which is now standard in the 2027 Stingray and Grand Sport Models offers 535-horsepower, 520 lb-ft of torque, and a 13.0:1 compression. Other features contributing to the increase in power includes dual port and direct injection, new cylinder heads, and a 95-mm throttle body to increase the flow of air into the new powerplant. The LS6 is now the most powerful base Corvette engine ever offered.
“For the LS6, we’ve honored the historic principles of large-displacement small-block V8s, but not in a benign way, like ‘I’ve been there, seen that,” Kociba said. “So you get that low-speed torque for when you’re canyon cruising and driving around town that makes the Corvette so drivable, yet we still have that high end power to do insane things: 200 miles per hour is quite a milestone.”
We’re a big fan of surprises, and for Corvette enthusiasts to wake up on National Corvette Day to see the news that the new Corvette Stingray can run 200+ MPH is the perfect chef’s kiss from Chevrolet.
We hope you are enjoying this surprise on National Corvette Day just as much as we are!
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Chevrolet
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Ahh, I’m old enough to remember when Chevy debuted the all new C4 with a tag line that found it self on t-shirts…
” life begins at 150″
Corvette engineers have come a very long way. To the good!
That 2.8 sec 0-60 is bumping right up the Z06 time.
The vehicle pictured doesn’t exist or at least isn’t for sale. The boomerang is from a Stingray but we see rear bumper vents from the wide-body models (GS, Z06 Eray, ZR1, ZR1X). All of those models have the Y boomerang. The center exaust option on the 2027 Stingray doesn’t make the body a wide-body. I confirmed with the configurator tool. So this begs the question, what the hell are we looking at?
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