2020 Corvette C8: Mid-Engine Reveal
The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette reveal has long been rumored to change everything.  And that's because the engine is moving to the rear of the vehicle.  Thus, taking the sportscar's ability to perform into an entirely new realm.

So when the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette reveal was live-streamed from a hangar in Tustin, California to the world expectations were high.  After all, it's the eighth-generation Corvette.  That's C8 in Chevy-speak.

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And ever since the Corvette's beginning, mid-engine has been a hot topic.  In fact, before the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette reveal, the automaker produced at least three different well known mid-engine prototypes.  These were referred to as  CERV I, CERV II and CERV III.  And that's an acronym for Chevrolet Experimental Research Vehicle. ;0)

After the big reveal, select Chevy dealers were invited to that same Orange County hangar for more details.  And I jumped at the opportunity to find out what my friend Lewis Cook from Martin Chevrolet found out.

Continue reading our talk below or play the podcast and scroll through on-site pictures of the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette reveal.  Because this really does change everything!

"They have outdone themselves in every stretch of the imagination.  It's a mid-engine. It's just the sexiest car I've ever seen.  0 to 60 under 3.2 seconds in the base model car.  It's an exotic supercar.  If I were to speak off the record, I think that we would see these cars late December, early January at the latest. I think if anybody's really serious about it, they need to get on it."
2020 Chevrolet Corvette Mid-Engine Reveal - More than 50-years in the Making
Tom: Welcome to iDriveSoCal, the podcast all about mobility from the automotive capital of the United States, Southern California.

Tom Smith here and I am with my good friend, Mr. Lewis Cook, at Martin Chevrolet in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance, California right here on Hawthorne Boulevard.

In mid-engine speak is that the hood popped open?

We are talking 2020 Corvette Mid-Engine baby. Finally after what? Five decades of anticipation?

Lewis: Too long.

Tom: Lewis, thanks for joining me. Thanks for being a great iDriveSoCal partner.

495 horsepower & 470 pound-feet of torque

This is, let's see, we are Saturday. Not sure when you're going to be listening to the podcast but we are Saturday, July 20th. And the big reveal, the big live stream reveal was on Thursday, July 18th.

I don't know if you tuned into the live stream. I certainly did.

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