Automobile Mag Test Drives 2020 C8 Corvette and Claims it “Glides Over Broken Roads Like a Hovercraft”

All of us here at Chuck Hutton Chevy of Memphis enjoyed a very intense level of excitement over the past year when we were awaiting the debut of the Chevy C8 mid-engined Corvette. The current model was such a fantastic machine that had seen so many exhilarating runs off and on the track, but it had reached a leveling-out point where performance was concerned. Nielson Ireson of Automobile Mag had previously encountered a few reviews about this wonder of engineering that surprised him. A few of his cohorts in the industry had been in his opinion quite off base when they did not fully approve of the steering and overall grip.

Spending the better part of an entire week with the new work of wonder, he concluded that they absolutely must have just had quite enough time to spend with it. He spent his precious time with the C8 both on the road and on the corners of the Willow Springs racetrack. They chose to spend the entire week in track-alignment mode, whether they were nailing down high-speed laps or careening in the mountains near Lake Hughes, California.

Surprisingly enough, the designers responsible for this car said if you are going to use the track setting to just go ahead and keep it that way for the duration, and it will NOT cause any premature wear on the tires. The crew's first response after a quick initial drive was “Holy cow, is this thing good!”. The nearly instant torque derived from the 6.2-liter V8 means that you are not left without thrust in the least, and the steering was the most communicative they had laid hands on in quite some time.

Like many others out there in the sea of car critics, Neilson concluded after just a few back-to-back runs in hardware just as exotic as what one would find in the Ferrari F8 Tributo and McLaren GT, the mid-engine Corvette is, by all means, something wildly special, especially at its current cost. Social media editor Billy Rehbock only had one complaint, and that was that the C8 was actually a bit quiet when it was really being pushed to the limit. He then added that he was sure that coming performance versions will probably remedy that issue down to the last detail.

This blog continues on to say that for Chevy to have done such an impressive job in its first go with the engine behind the driver and to have included so many improvements to the quality and luxury for a fraction of the price of the competing super-crowd is nothing short of startling. Contributing writer Arthur St. Antoine wrote in his notes that the new C8 “glides over broken mountain roads like a hovercraft, but still sticks like crazy”, and he also thought that it was overall more compliant than the scorching competition in the form of the Porsche 992. This is a car that ranks high on the “easy to live with” factor as a daily driver, and every single commentator was blown away by the interior that tightly wraps you in while giving you space to enjoy the raw power and handling you enjoy with every single turn and aggressive launch!