The first order cycle for the 2024 model year Corvette is hampered by a plethora of constraints. Rick Conti talks about no fewer than 24 in the featured clip, kicking off with the Q9I Gloss Black wheels for the Stingray.
Rick says that only 157 are officially available nationwide. This design is joined by the Q9A Midnight Gray, along with the Q9O Satin Graphite wheels and Q9Y Silver five-spoke wheels. As per the order guide, the latter designs are new for the 2024 model year.
Paint constraints also need to be highlighted, beginning with GJV Riptide Blue Metallic. The new Cacti Green exterior paint color, which bears regular production order code GVR in the MY24 order guide, is listed with zero availability nationwide for the Stingray at the moment of reporting. GXA Sea Wolf Gray Metallic is limited to a meager 8 cars for the first order cycle.
Cacti Green isn't available on the Z06 either, whereas Sea Wolf is limited to four vehicles. Riptide Blue, on the other hand, is available for up to 15 examples of the flat-plane crankshaft V8-engined thriller. Carbon-fiber bits and pieces are in short supply as well. CFV Visible Carbon Fiber Ground Effects are limited to 110 units of the Z06, the TOG Visible Carbon Fiber High Wing to 74, and the TOF Carbon Flash High Wing to 110.
Last but certainly not least, J57 Carbon Ceramic Brakes with Dark Gray Metallic-painted calipers will be fitted to 220 vehicles in the first instance. Customers in the market for the E-Ray need to wait until August for General Motors to open the order books for the first-ever hybrid and all-wheel-drive 'Vette.
The self-charging hybrid part needs no explanation, whereas all-wheel drive is enabled by a front-mounted electric motor. Despite featuring a rather small battery, the all-new E-Ray can be driven on electric power alone. This zero-emission mode, which is dubbed Stealth in Chevy vernacular, shuts off the V8 mill out back.
It's hard to get one's head around a Corvette whose front wheels do the heavy work, but then again, the C8 is a revolutionary development of the 70-year-old 'Vette. Sometimes mistaken as being completely electric, the E-Ray also happens to be the fastest-accelerating Corvette entitled to wear a license plate. 60 miles per hour (97 kilometers per hour) takes a scant 2.5 seconds, and the quarter mile is over in 10.5 clicks.
Heavier than the Stingray and Z06, the E-Ray combines the widebody looks of the Z06 with the small-block engine of the Stingray. Think of it as the indirect successor to the Grand Sport, which used to slot between the Stingray Z51 and the Z06. The combined output numbers for the E-Ray are 655 ponies and 595 pound-feet (807 Nm), of which 495 ponies and 470 pound-feet (637 Nm) come from the direct-injected V8.
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