{"id":23627,"date":"2022-06-02T00:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T04:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=23627"},"modified":"2022-06-02T00:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T04:04:05","slug":"1136044_chevrolet-corvette-grand-sport-trademark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=23627","title":{"rendered":"GM trademarks Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport, again"},"content":{"rendered":"

General Motors has applied to renew the Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport trademark, according to a recent filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).<\/p>\n

The Grand Sport name was previously used for versions of the C6 and C7 Corvette that were a step up from the base models in performance, but sat below the Z06 and ZR1 models in the hierarchy. Chevy also used the name for a C4 Corvette variant.<\/p>\n

The name originated with a 1962 project by Corvette godfather Zora Arkus Duntov to create a lightweight racing version of the C2 Corvette. However, GM brass didn’t approve of the project, and only five of the original Corvette Grand Sports were built.<\/p>\n

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Given that history, it makes sense for GM to maintain the Grand Sport trademark. The question is what it will be used on next?<\/p>\n

It’s not hard to imagine a C8 Corvette Grand Sport slotting between the Stingray and Z06. But GM is also planning hybrid and all-electric Corvette models, and the name for one of them seems to be in flux at the moment.<\/p>\n

The idea of a hybrid Corvette seemed unthinkable<\/a> a decade ago, but such a vehicle is now in development. Prototypes have been spotted<\/a> and Tremec has filed a patent application for what appears to be the car’s transmission<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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2023 Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray spy shots – Photo credit:\u00a0S. Baldauf\/SB-Medien<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

GM trademarked the Corvette E-Ray<\/a> name in 2015, seemingly for an upcoming electrified model. While Corvette E-Ray has been abandoned, according information from the USPTO, GM still has a trademark filing for the E-Ray name without the Corvette prefix. Could the upcoming Corvette hybrid be called Grand Sport and the electric be called E-Ray? GM hasn’t announced naming for either, so we’ll have to wait until they are unveiled.<\/p>\n

If the Grand Sport becomes the hybrid, it would serve as a stepping stone in electrification to Chevy’s planned all-electric Corvette, just as previous Grand Sport models were a step toward the high-performance Z06 and ZR1. GM President Mark Reuss said in April that the electric Corvette is coming<\/a>, but didn’t say when.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

General Motors has applied to renew the Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport trademark, according to a recent filing with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The Grand Sport name was previously used for versions of the C6 and C7 Corvette that were a step up from the base models in performance, but sat below […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}