One is that the C8 is the first mid-engine Chevy Corvette. The mechanical parts are of course hidden from view, but the very different location of the engine compared with the C7 has an inevitable ...

The C8 Corvette is more sophisticated ... Now that the front-engine C7 Corvette is gone, the engineers allow that the transverse leaf springs do some tricky things to the spring rate at the ...

Ever since the first Corvette ZR1 was introduced for ... offering ZR1 variants for the C3, C4, C6, and C7 generations. So, how does the C8 ZR1 stack up against the C7 ZR1? Let’s start with ...

However, Corvette designers also made sure that the C7 and C8 retained a few basic common styling cues and details (albeit in an evolutionary form), such as the lights on both ends, to keep a ...

The C7 Corvette and the new mid-engine C8 Corvette have extremely similar engines, both have naturally aspirated pushrod V-8s displacing 6.2 liters. The C8's engine, the LT2, is essentially an ...

Both wore Corvette-developed Michelin summer tires, though the C8 had the latest Pilot Sport 4S rubber, whereas the C7 wore the older Pilot Super Sports. We turned off stability control so that we ...

It also represents a change in a philosophy that has remained in place for almost 70 years and across seven generations worth of Corvette models. The C8 isn’t just a successor to the C7 ...

Even better, the C7 is all things to all sports-car fans—grand tourer to track rat and everything in between. As the C8 continues to reinvent the Corvette recipe with ever more iterations ...

Turning our attention back to the Corvette, the Grand Sport is described by Randy as “the best-handling of all C7 variations.” The more sophisticated C8 is a Z51, and the tests have been ...

The long-awaited, mid-engine Corvette hasn’t even been ... And perhaps because they can’t really talk about the C8 until July 18, they put together a C7 farewell tour in Connecticut.

greatest C8 may be grabbing all the headlines these days thanks to its four-digit horsepower numbers and all, the C7 is still a car worth talking about. The seventh generation Corvette lasted from ...