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During the first quarter of 2024, the American sports car market was dominated, as usual, by one of the Big Detroit Three automakers. This time around, it was the usual suspect – Ford's Mustang, not the Challenger taking the interim crown.
With the sixth generation Chevrolet Camaro and L-bodied Dodge Challenger and Charger discontinued and production ended since December 2023, General Motors and Stellantis relied on inventory stock to try and pose a challenge for the S650 Mustang. Still, the latter got 13,707 deliveries under its belt compared to just 3,574 units of the ever-faltering Camaro and 9,737 examples of the Challenger.
Still, GM nailed second place overall because the Camaro adds to Chevrolet's other sports cars – the much more expensive yet hugely better-selling C8 Corvette, which had 8,576 sales during the first three months of the year. That's not just a lot more than the Camaro but also pretty close to the BMW 4 Series (8,847 examples) and more than the Toyota Supras, Nissan Zs, Mazda MX-5s, Subaru BRZs, Toyota GR86s, and BMW Z4s put together, according to our friends over at the corvetteblogger.com.
But not only is a whale time to be a Corvette salesman but also an enthusiast – Chevrolet has recently kicked off the teaser marketing campaign for the upcoming C8 Chevy Corvette ZR1, which is supposed to come out on top of the $68,300 Stingray (up to 495 hp), $105k E-Ray (655 hp), and $113k Z06 (670 hp). Dubbed to be "unthinkable," the all-new ZR1 is due later this year for the summer season with reports of more than 800 horsepower to make sure the Ford Mustang GTD has a supercar companion and with turbos rather than a supercharger under the hood.
Naturally, this means everyone and their mother are thinking about their favorite Corvette right now. That is also valid across the imaginative realm of digital car content creators, as it turns out. More precisely, Taehee Tim Lee, the automotive 3D artist better known as timthespy on social media, has decided to fiddle with his favorite version of 'America's sports car' after recently playing with digital things from Ferrari or Porsche.
So, coming from a Ferrari Roma dressed in slammed widebody attire with an exposed naturally-aspirated 7.4-liter concept V12 engine, the pixel master also translated the crazy mill into his vision of the perfect Corvette – a C6 generation restomod swapped with the NA V12 and dubbed 'C612' Corvette Longtail. In fact, it's not just the rear overhang that's a lot longer than stock – even the front is oversized now. It's also slammed, has triple short exhausts sticking behind the front chrome wheels, and has a Weld drag racing wheel and tire combo, just for good CGI measure. What do you think – yay or nay?
Still, GM nailed second place overall because the Camaro adds to Chevrolet's other sports cars – the much more expensive yet hugely better-selling C8 Corvette, which had 8,576 sales during the first three months of the year. That's not just a lot more than the Camaro but also pretty close to the BMW 4 Series (8,847 examples) and more than the Toyota Supras, Nissan Zs, Mazda MX-5s, Subaru BRZs, Toyota GR86s, and BMW Z4s put together, according to our friends over at the corvetteblogger.com.
But not only is a whale time to be a Corvette salesman but also an enthusiast – Chevrolet has recently kicked off the teaser marketing campaign for the upcoming C8 Chevy Corvette ZR1, which is supposed to come out on top of the $68,300 Stingray (up to 495 hp), $105k E-Ray (655 hp), and $113k Z06 (670 hp). Dubbed to be "unthinkable," the all-new ZR1 is due later this year for the summer season with reports of more than 800 horsepower to make sure the Ford Mustang GTD has a supercar companion and with turbos rather than a supercharger under the hood.
Naturally, this means everyone and their mother are thinking about their favorite Corvette right now. That is also valid across the imaginative realm of digital car content creators, as it turns out. More precisely, Taehee Tim Lee, the automotive 3D artist better known as timthespy on social media, has decided to fiddle with his favorite version of 'America's sports car' after recently playing with digital things from Ferrari or Porsche.
So, coming from a Ferrari Roma dressed in slammed widebody attire with an exposed naturally-aspirated 7.4-liter concept V12 engine, the pixel master also translated the crazy mill into his vision of the perfect Corvette – a C6 generation restomod swapped with the NA V12 and dubbed 'C612' Corvette Longtail. In fact, it's not just the rear overhang that's a lot longer than stock – even the front is oversized now. It's also slammed, has triple short exhausts sticking behind the front chrome wheels, and has a Weld drag racing wheel and tire combo, just for good CGI measure. What do you think – yay or nay?
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