Blue Chevrolet Corvette from a front three-quarter on a residential street

Rapid Blue

Blue ChevroletCorvette

Four hundred and ninety-five horsepower behind the seats, and a colour that makes the shape look like it is already moving.

Chevrolet spent sixty years putting the engine in the front. Then it stopped, and everything changed at once.

The C8 is the Corvette that moved the V8 behind the seats — 495 horsepower, sixty in under three seconds, a nose that drops away out of sight and a price that still undercuts everything it now resembles. In blue, which is what this shape was drawn for.

Specification

Horsepower
495
0–60 mph
2.9s
Top speed
194mph
Seats
2

6.2L V8 · RWD

Blue Chevrolet Corvette in profile on a residential street
01In profile the cab sits so far forward it looks like a concept car that escaped. Everything behind the doors is engine and air.

Moving the engine backwards changed the whole car. The driver sits almost over the front axle, the bonnet falls away out of sight, and it turns in with a precision no front-engined Corvette ever managed. The boot moved under the bonnet, and a second one appeared behind the engine.

What did not change is the sound. Six point two litres, naturally aspirated, pushrods and all — the deep flat noise Americans have been making since 1955, now from a foot behind your shoulders on Mulholland.

Sixty years with the engine in front.
Then one model changed everything.

Rear three-quarter of the blue Chevrolet Corvette showing the vents behind the doors
Rear of the blue Chevrolet Corvette with its four tail lights and quad exhausts

02Everything behind the doors is intake. Four lights, four pipes and a diffuser — this is the view the rest of the road is given.

Cockpit of the blue Chevrolet Corvette with its squared wheel and screens
03A squared-off wheel, two screens, and a ridge of switches down the middle that walls the driver off from the passenger. Nobody has ever decided whether it is brilliant.

The particulars

The guest book

Queries

How much does it cost to rent a Corvette in Los Angeles?
The blue Corvette is $349 a day, with multi-day stays discounted. Delivery to our Beverly Hills partner hotels is complimentary.
What is the difference from the red convertible?
The same mid-engined V8 underneath. This one is the coupé with the roof panel in place, which makes it the quieter of the two to look at and the tidier one on a canyon road.
How far ahead should I book it?
There is one blue Corvette in the fleet and it is the car people book for a specific weekend. Name the date early and it is held for you.

The diary

When you can have it

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