2020 C8 Corvette Stringray

[Jeff V.]

Nice.

Hopefully those times can be reproduced in the real world.

[mjannusch]

I'd like to see the list of cars that can do it at any price.

[mjannusch]

Found the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f ... ds_or_less)

I also got on my dealer's list to get a Z06 when they become available. I'm first on the list for a convertible.

Now the insanely long wait begins. I'm guessing mid-2021 before they are available.

On the 2020 Stingray - looks like nearly all the allocations for 2020 are sold out already, though nobody knows the overall production numbers that they are shooting for.

[Jeff V.]

I'd guess details on the Z06 will surface some time in January. The C8R will have to drop by January for IMSA. So they'll need to talk about the Z06 if they're going to pretend the C8R has any relation to that car rather than the Stingray. It'll be weird to have the Z06 come so fast since they started the introduction for the base car so late in the year.

The whole 'sold out' thing was been debated quite a bit. GM's head of design said it was sold out, and then the high volume dealers said they still had plenty of allocation. Of course, this lead a certain group of people to start screaming 'fake news'. So that was fun.

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. GM has enough internet reservations to claim they've booked most of the 2020 production, but those aren't true serious orders until they're paid up at a dealer. And even those aren't real commitments until pricing is released and binding sales contracts are signed. Supposedly that's coming April 15.

[mjannusch]

My local dealer got 24 cars allocated, and all have deposits down on them. I dunno... I guess they could be blowing smoke, but no reason to in my case since I don’t want a Stingray version.

[MumRa]

what makes it a "Stingray"? roof?

[mjannusch]

A Stingray is basically the “base” configuration. Naturally aspirated engine, standard body design, etc. Then later the forced induction and/or wide body designs come out that historically are Z06, Grand Sport, ZR1, etc.

[MumRa]

ah gotcha! "Stingray" sounds special. nope, just the base.

[Jeff V.]

With as big as this thing is, I wonder just how much of a widebody they'll do.

Width, without mirrors.

C7 Stingray: 73.9"
C7 Z06/GS : 77.4"
C8 Stingray: 76.1"
Ford GT : 76.9"
Aventador : 79.9"

[aaronatstate]

[quote=""Jeff V.""]With as big as this thing is, I wonder just how much of a widebody they'll do.

Width, without mirrors.

C7 Stingray: 73.9"
C7 Z06/GS : 77.4"
C8 Stingray: 76.1"
Ford GT : 76.9"
Aventador : 79.9"[/quote]

Wonder what width wheels they can get under the C8 right now? I would assume they'd only go widebody if they had to get wider wheels/tires under the car.

[alienviking]

https://www.motor1.com/news/363352/2020 ... z51-black/

[MumRa]

[quote=""alienviking""]https://www.motor1.com/news/363352/2020 ... z51-black/[/quote]

sold. of course I'd have to drive it first but unless I hated it that might be exactly what I get next.

[mjannusch]

As long as there's no problems with them, it should be a hell of a lot of car for the money.

[tabasco122]

[quote=""MumRa""]sold. of course I'd have to drive it first but unless I hated it that might be exactly what I get next.[/quote]

i can 3d print you some batman center caps

[MumRa]

[quote=""tabasco122""]i can 3d print you some batman center caps[/quote]

sold!

[Jeff V.]

This is pretty cool.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/2020 ... 05-10aaa0b

BY
CHRIS PAUKERT

AUGUST 8, 2019 2:00 AM PDT

Thursday, July 18, marked a day that many car enthusiasts and industry watchers thought would never happen: After decades of rumors and innuendo, Chevrolet finally introduced a production, mid-engined Corvette. It's fair to say the 2020 Chevy Corvette Stingray's Tustin, California, reveal was a blockbuster event by the numbers. You may have already committed the key metrics to memory: 495 horsepower, 0 to 60 miles per hour in under 3 seconds, pricing starting at under $60,000.

The C8 Corvette wasn't the only thing to generate impressive stats that night: The reveal event itself triggered massive online traffic for the automotive websites and forums covering the 'Vette's reveal, and General Motors was temporarily overwhelmed by the unbridled interest the reveal generated. There were times when the livestream of the reveal bogged down, and when the automaker revealed that its 2020 Chevy Corvette "Visualizer" configurator tool was already live on Chevrolet.com, a tidal wave of traffic ensued, effectively gridlocking the experience for most users for the better part of a day.

When the digital dust settled, the 2020 Chevy Corvette had set a number of impressive online records for GM. In the main, 471,000 people tuned in to watch the livestream unveil of the Corvette -- an impressive figure given that the event was held midevening on the West Coast (a good portion of the event happened after much of the country had already gone to bed).

But Corvette fever didn't stop there. Friday, July 19, the first full day after the C8's debut, saw the C8 shatter Chevrolet.com traffic records, too. According to Steve Majoros, director of passenger car and crossover marketing for Chevrolet, the brand's consumer site saw five times the normal traffic load it hosts on a daily basis. Corvette-related traffic set an all-time record for Chevy's website, even with the slowdown.

"With a pretty rabid and passionate base, we knew we'd take 24 hours of grief," Majoros tells Roadshow. "The majority of people got the full [configurator] experience, which is the full 3D experience. We do have a way that the system throttles to what we're calling a 2D experience [to speed load time]. Once we hit thresholds, we worked with Amazon Web Services very quickly to double our server capacity." (GM may have outsourced its server support for things like 3D rendering, but it built the C8's configurator tool internally, a move that helped keep a lid on information leaking out about the top-secret car.)

Through the end of July, traffic to the C8's Chevrolet.com landing page alone amounted to 2.4 million visits, with 750,000 of those users coming within the first 72 hours after the reveal. By the end of July, some 1.3 million users had already tried out out the Corvette's Visualizer, poking through the various colors, options and features to configure their dream Corvettes. In total, visitors to the website built over 940,000 Corvettes and logged in excess of 152,000 hours spent on the Visualizer tool before the month of August even began.

[alienviking]

So we can blame GM for the drop in work productivity. Got it.

[MumRa]

F*ck, I think I'm gonna end up with a Corvette...

[mjannusch]

Got the $350 magnetic ride upgrade software installed today. Seemed to make road bumps much less noticeable. Steering and general "feel" seems about the same - maybe a bit more feedback and "tighter" feeling, though I have to let the car sit for 8 hours to let it recalibrate the suspension or something.

The dealer sells quite a few Corvettes, and they hadn't had anyone in before to do this upgrade that they could remember. Took them a while to find the right documentation and get it done. I guess that only a small portion of orders back then were for Z51 package, and I think you also had to order magnetic ride as a separate option on top of that. Maybe there aren't that many out there around here. I dunno.

Seems "better", but should get a better feel for it if I take it out to play a bit tomorrow.