It
may be a bit blurry but just as any exciting top-secret piece of information,
it was shot in the dark of night just 4 days ago. You can still clearly make
out four large auto transporters carrying the 2020 Corvettes fresh off the
assembly line at General Motors' thriving Bowling Green, Kentucky plant. The
video actually came from an exterior camera that was installed next door in a
place that should not be too surprising: The National Corvette Museum. This was
surely a great day for the Corvette namesake, and for those who will be
enjoying the ultimate excitement of personal delivery during the month of
March!
The
update plan courtesy of top Chevy officials was to begin shipment of the
completely assembled Corvettes during late February or early March, and there
have been 40,000 orders already logged for purchase. An Instagram video posted last week
showed over two-dozen Corvettes already waiting to be shipped, and they could
have in fact been a small production run built after the initial run of test
fleet vehicles and before the full-on ordered allotment. This was a car that
respectfully and needfully had to wait decades in the making, and after release
in a large California airline hangar during July, it has been a whirlwind and
groundbreaking experience.
After
its proper reveal, the 2020 Corvette's weight was officially accounted for
ringing in at 3,366 pounds dry, and the convertible bears around 102 pounds
more than the coupe. One of the reasons why many have been so excited about
this car is that in its base form it offers a startling level of performance
for the money. Good things absolutely come to those who wait patiently, and the
staff on duty at Wards Auto claimed after a test drive of their own that “this
is much simpler to drive than the C7, you can simply point it in the intended
direction and lay on the throttle.”
The
first thing you will notice when you climb inside this cabin is just how much
quieter it is on the highway than the C7, just at a time when there has never
been a model in existence that puts the roaring V8 so close to the driver. Even
though the purists among the high- performance crew may complain about lack of
a manual transmission, you’ll still be nailing down gearshifts in less than 100
milliseconds, a “universe where no human power can venture!”.
