2020 Corvette Twins Get Tailed While Testing Near Nurburgring, Look Exotic

Even so, the new model has a lot of testing left to do, including at the legendary Nurburgring track in Germany, where all the high-powered American sports models come to be toyed with. Carspotter Jeroen was able to capture not one but two identical prototypes there today.

The change to a mid-engined layout is not just driven by GM's ambition to rival Ferrari. Despite repeated attempts to change this, most Corvette buyers are old people, and the company desperately needs to attract the sorts of folks who would get a Porsche or a McLaren. Despite being mid-engined, the 'Vette is still not ideal for Monaco billionaires, looking too wide for the roads it's on. Only a couple of hundred Europeans buy Corvettes each year, plus Chevy doesn't sell cars directly anymore.

The situation is pretty bad, with the factory being idle for many months and under 10,000 units being split almost evenly between the base models and the Z06. The interior of this new model will be even more futuristic than the camouflaged body leads you to believe, while power and performance will be available in abundance.

The latest reports put the normal 6.2-liter LT2 model at about 480 HP with a 0 to 60 time of around 3 seconds. We expect this version to cost somewhere in the region of $70,000, which is only the start.

Further down the line, we might have a 1,000 horsepower hybrid monster with electric motors over the front and a twin-turbo V8. Don't expect any manual, though. Chevy patented a fly-by-wire twin-clutch gearbox, while only about 1/5 of customers opted for a stick in their C7.