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Chevrolet is currently a little preoccupied with the sad case of bidding farewell to the iconic 2024 Camaro, the last of its kind for the sixth generation. As such, the legendary nameplate was recently derived in a couple of special editions – ZL1 Garage 56 and the Collector's Edition, which is available across all trims.
We need to prepare to say goodbye to the outgoing 2024 Camaro fully, and these limited series are great for collectors – but a tad less so for the good folks that hoped General Motors would give the pony and muscle car one last chance at survival. Well, 350 units of the ZL1 Collector's Edition and just 56 examples of the ZL1 Garage 56 series aren't going to make a big difference, right? Luckily, the Collector's Edition can be had with any trim level if you want to drop a fatter paycheck ranging from $4,995 (for the 1LT) to $14,995 (for the ZL1). Oh, well, that's not the first thing that got lost in the Chevy translation, right?
Although heralded as one of the greatest sports cars of our time, the reinvented C8 Chevy Corvette has not made absolutely everyone happy with the historic switch from a front-engine RWD setup to the mid-engine and rear- or all-wheel drive format for the C8 Stingray, Z06, and first-ever E-Ray. And that is valid both in the real world as well as across the imaginative realm of digital car content creators, as it turns out. But there is no need to take our word for granted, as we have yet another interesting example.
Pedro Ruperto, a junior exterior designer at AVATR (Munich, Germany), is known as 'rupertodesign' on social media precisely because of such projects like his reinvented front-engine C8 Corvette that takes matters into a galaxy far and away compared to other neat Chevy ideas of a digital nature. As such, the pixel master decided to explore the case of improving one of his original car sketches just recently and also presented us with the scenario of a C8 Corvette that never abandoned the front engine layout.
So, while the original is obviously way too much inspired by contemporary Ferraris, the new version is much closer to Corvette tradition – up to the point where even the front headlights have reverted to the pop-up trend! Plus, this time around, the use of AI-generated images is not intrusive or obtrusive – it's just spot-on with helping the artist put the finished car project into proper context with help from a quicker background creation process. All in all, what do you say – do we give this hypothetical alternate timeline front-engine RWD C8 Chevy Corvette project our CGI hall pass, or not?
Although heralded as one of the greatest sports cars of our time, the reinvented C8 Chevy Corvette has not made absolutely everyone happy with the historic switch from a front-engine RWD setup to the mid-engine and rear- or all-wheel drive format for the C8 Stingray, Z06, and first-ever E-Ray. And that is valid both in the real world as well as across the imaginative realm of digital car content creators, as it turns out. But there is no need to take our word for granted, as we have yet another interesting example.
Pedro Ruperto, a junior exterior designer at AVATR (Munich, Germany), is known as 'rupertodesign' on social media precisely because of such projects like his reinvented front-engine C8 Corvette that takes matters into a galaxy far and away compared to other neat Chevy ideas of a digital nature. As such, the pixel master decided to explore the case of improving one of his original car sketches just recently and also presented us with the scenario of a C8 Corvette that never abandoned the front engine layout.
So, while the original is obviously way too much inspired by contemporary Ferraris, the new version is much closer to Corvette tradition – up to the point where even the front headlights have reverted to the pop-up trend! Plus, this time around, the use of AI-generated images is not intrusive or obtrusive – it's just spot-on with helping the artist put the finished car project into proper context with help from a quicker background creation process. All in all, what do you say – do we give this hypothetical alternate timeline front-engine RWD C8 Chevy Corvette project our CGI hall pass, or not?
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