Thanks to the 2020 Corvette Owner’s Manual, we now have the official break-in procedure and the service schedule for the 2020 Corvette. If you haven’t yet, you can click here to download the manual.
We previously were aware of the reduced engine torque for the first 500 miles of operation from an Ask Tadge question. Most of these are common sense so no burnouts while leaving the dealership! Here are the other recommendations from the manual:
The ’60 Corvette is 60 years old this year.
Here’s an opportunity to get a super rare classic Corvette convertible that appears to be well on its way back from the grave, thanks to a frame-off restoration that has already started.
Great news today for 2020 Corvette buyers! Chevrolet has finally released the PDF version of the Owner’s Manual for the C8 Corvette.
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The return of WEC racing to the Circuit of the Americas not only featured the debut of the No.63 Corvette C8.R and the return of Jan Magnussen and Mike Rockenfeller, but also a large showing of the Corvette faithful. Nearly 200 Corvettes registered for the Lone Star Le Mans Corvette Corral and many of these Corvettes were sporting clever vanity plates.
As a part of their C8 Corvette review, YouTube channel The Fast Lane Car (TFL), spoke to Corvette Chief Engineer Ed Piatek about which cars General Motors has purchased for benchmarking purposes. Ed followed the company line and didn’t reveal anything that we don’t already know, citing our old friends, the Ferrari 458 Italia and the Porsche 911 GT2RS, which have both been seen testing along with camouflaged C8 mules that speculators have labeled Z06 models.
When it comes to perfecting the aerodynamics of the mid-engine C8 Corvettes, the Corvette team worked closely with the engineers at Pratt & Miller to take what has been learned on the race track and transfer that technology to the new streetcars.
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Many of you fellow enthusiasts out there are paranoid about just getting a tiny nick on the front bumper of your Corvette or even letting a little rainfall dampen the fiberglass.
Imagine the anguish you would have felt if the C7 in this YouTube video were yours!
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We’ve been enjoying some of the videos coming out of the 2020 Corvette First Drive event from Las Vegas last week and it’s been fun watching the various automotive outlets test the new C8 Corvette. If you are moving a bit slow today, perhaps this video will get the blood flowing to all the right parts.
Before I say anything…please, please please don’t be calling your dealers and asking where your Corvette is because CorvetteBlogger says they are shipping on Friday. These guys and girls are busy enough as it is and they will be notified of the impending deliveries and then they will contact the appropriate customers to schedule their delivery appointments.
With C8 production officially underway, we wanted to reminisce about the past six years of Corvette production. The seventh-generation is widely considered the greatest ‘Vette of all time and a fitting pinnacle to the 67-year run in which America’s Sports Car had its engine in front of the driver.
Performance and sales-wise, it is impossible to call the C7 anything but a roaring success. It also took large strides towards rehabilitating the image of the Corvette’s interior which had been maligned by journalists for decades. As of right now, the C7 holds several distinctions in Corvette lore. The two most powerful Corvettes of all time are C7s, the fastest straight-line and track times ever set in a ‘Vette were done in seventh-gen cars, it boasts the most expensive variant in GM’s long history, and, as far as we know, it will be the final generation to offer a manual transmission. We would say that the Corvette Team hit a home run with the C7 but, hindsight being 20/20, there are some things that we wish would have been implemented before the switch to a mid-engine layout.
