{"id":50360,"date":"2023-05-24T00:03:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T04:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=50360"},"modified":"2023-05-24T00:03:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T04:03:17","slug":"two-high-performance-corvettes-caught-testing-in-new-spy-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=50360","title":{"rendered":"Two high-performance Corvettes caught testing in new spy photos – Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

A caravan of heavily camouflaged high-performance Chevrolet Corvette<\/a> prototypes was caught testing in public today, led by a Cadillac CT5-V<\/a> Blackwing. We suspect that may not be the only high-output V8 in this crowd of preproduction Corvettes, and that’s not even the most interesting mystery question raised by this test session. Let’s have a look at what we can see under all this cladding.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

For starters, it appears we’re looking at two distinct flavors of Corvette<\/a> here, bare minimum. While all four of them have the Z06-style center exhaust, only two have the crazy Batman-style wing from the Z07 package. All four are wearing Micheln Pilot<\/a> Sport Cup 2 Rs \u2014 about as serious as DOT-legal trackday rubber gets. To make the whole thing even more complicated (and interesting!), we might be looking at matched pairs of AWD and RWD models.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The car pictured above and lower left here appears to have axle stubs visible through the hubs in its front wheels. Two cars in the convoy are rolling<\/a> around like this, while the other pair (as seen in the lower right photo) have their center caps both in place and camouflaged; for whatever it’s worth, they appear to be covering up the Corvette flag emblem and nothing more.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In this case, AWD likely means hybrid<\/a>, and so far there’s only one of those in the C8 lineup. As Chevy’s<\/a> engineers have already made it clear that the E-Ray<\/a> is meant more for cruising than lapping, it seems unlikely (though admittedly not impossible) that we’re looking at a package for that application. But if not E-Ray, then what? Could these be early streetgoing prototypes for the long-rumored, 1,000-plus-horsepower Corvette Zora<\/a>?<\/p>\n

If the two wearing their center caps are truly RWD and not AWD, that makes the puzzle more intriguing still. Given the rubber and aero visible here, anything less than Z06-level performance can safely be dismissed. If not Zora, then perhaps a returning nameplate. ZR1, anybody? It’s expected to return<\/a>, perhaps as a RWD, supercharged counterpart to the Zora. Both are rumored<\/a> to enter production as soon as 2025, so we shouldn’t have to wait too long for answers. Stay tuned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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