Most of us have never been to the SEMA show in Vegas, as it is only open to industry insiders. For those that cruise the halls, they get to see the future of the auto industry and a lot of custom cars and parts.
The 2017 SEMA show starts this coming Monday and takes up the entire Las Vegas Convention Center.
One of the many concept and custom cars presented, will be an offering from Heartland Customs; their take on the 1963 C2 Corvette Grand Sport. This is not a continuation or tribute car, but a modern twist on the classic design, which the company previewed in the sketch above.
Jeff Page told Super Chevy, their design goal “was to keep the look of the 1963 Grand Sport, but clean it up and add features and elements to bring it up to 2017 performance car level.”
No word on availability, engine option(s), trans, other
Mid Engine C8 Spotted
All of us at some point in our collective lives have uttered the expression “The future is now.” Well, the future is now. While there will be plenty of “futures” to come, the one that I am speaking about is here, at least, for those of us who live in the world of the gasoline-powered internal combustion engine, more specifically the world of the high-performance V-8. Both Chevrolet (and that includes Corvette) and Ford (yes, I just typed the “F” word!) as recently as the day I am writing this editorial have published plans to reallocate corporate funds to go deeper and faster into electric car research.
In the interim, as far back as December 2015, General Motors filed for trademarks on the use of the wording “Corvette E-Ray” and “E-Ray.” We have come a long way from Sting Ray and Stingray, to E-Ray. Does this mean that there absolutely will be an E-Ray? No.
Is the mid-engined Corvette’s arrival just three months away?
By Will Sabel Courtney October 17, 2017
The next generation of ‘Vettes may be arriving sooner than we thought. According to the Bowling Green Daily News, the 2019 model year version of the Chevrolet Corvette will enter production at the sports car’s Kentucky factory on January 29th, 2018.
The news came tucked away deep in a longer story regarding the Bowling Green factory’s imminent November 6th reopening, after a multi-month reset designed to retool the plant to build new models. The facility will go back to cranking out 2018 Corvettes for two and a half months until concluding that run on January 22nd, according to the paper, at which point the GM plant will begin the process of switching over to the new model.
The million-dollar question, though, is just what that 2019 Chevy Corvette will look like. The eventual arrival of a mid-engined Corvette
We have been hearing about the Mid-Engined C8 Corvette for about a year now, but as each month passes, we get a bit more information from the spy shots.
The photos by Woodward Facebook group member Josh Busenbark.
The newest pictures come from a fast food takeout window near Cadillac, Michigan. Still wearing camouflage, the newest photos show a more production-looking, with newly designed wheels, C8 Corvette test mule. As it was spotted far from the company’s proving grounds i [...]
