First-Ever Chevy Corvette SUV Imagined With Escalade-V Power to Fight Urus and Purosangue

The Dodge Challenger is wrapping up its stint on planet Earth alongside the Hemi-powered Charger with the 2023 model year 'Last Call' farewell special editions. No one knows if it will survive to see another iteration – all we are sure of is that the Charger is morphing back to a two-door lifestyle and is also adopting the zero emissions trend. According to the rumor mill, it could also gain access to Hurricane options though.

Meanwhile, the S650 Ford Mustang is left alone in the EcoBoost and Coyote V8 power field because the Chevrolet Camaro just ended production with no successor in sight. Sure, General Motors isn't too worried about the potential loss of customers as it hopes they will pony up the MSRPs for C8 Corvettes instead. The reinvented C8 generation is now a mid-engine affair starting from at least $68k in Stingray, E-Ray, and Z06 form.

More variants are coming – the Corvette Team is currently testing the alleged ZR1 with around 850 horsepower on tap, and later on, there will be a Zora flagship that crosses into electrified hypercar territory with about 1,000 hybrid ponies. However, the rumor mill still thinks that's not the end. Instead, reports claim that Corvette might become a standalone brand with sedan and SUV options – and, naturally, the imaginative realm of digital car content creators loves stuff like that.

For example, the good folks over at Auto Om TV have allowed their resident pixel master to go wild regarding AI-assisted design for their portrayal of the Corvette SUV because they have been enjoying a Chevrolet spree of new model designs. For example, they also have unofficial portrayals of the 2025 Chevy Corvette ZR1 and even a hypothetical 2025 Camaro form because no death is definitive in the parallel universes of vehicular CGI, just like it happens in superhero comic books.

As far as the Chevrolet Corvette SUV is concerned, although the title suggests they will talk about an electric version, no such thing occurs. Instead, the channel's virtual artist presents the unofficial vision of an edgy three-door SUV, and the host speaks of potential battles with the Lamborghini Urus and Ferrari Purosangue super-SUVs. But how will they achieve something like that?

Well, that's easy to envision – at least outside of the OEM's reach: the Corvette Team could simply bring over the Cadillac Blackwing engine design, more precisely, the 6.2-liter supercharged V8 engine employed for the Cadillac Escalade-V series, which has an output of 682 horsepower and 653 lb-ft (885 Nm) of torque. Obviously, if the Escalade-V behemoth can sprint to 60 mph in just 4.4 seconds, a Corvette SUV, which would be a lot lighter, could probably do it in 3.5 seconds or something like that!