Chevrolet Corvette C8 review American made sports car hits European roads Autocar
The eighthgeneration Chevrolet Corvette has landed in Europe. Available at last in official export specification compliant with European emissions regulations, and finally on sale in the UK in factorywarranted righthand drive form, this is a landmark version of one of the oldest, most famous and most successful sports cars in the world. And we ve been waiting for it for a long time. This car has been through a key technical transformation as part of which its famous and characterdefining Chevy small block V8 engine has migrated from the front of the car to the back. Now midengined (like an Audi R8 or Ferrari F8) rather than frontengined (like a Jaguar FType or BMW M4), the C8 has also adopted steel coil suspension in place of its old leaf sprung axles, and drops a manual gearbox entirely in favour of a new twinclutch automatic. Power for European versions is slightly lower than in North America, pegged at 475bhp rather than 495; but standard chassis specification is imp
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