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https://www.motortrend.com/news/2022-chevrolet-corvette-c8-z06-zora-zr1-eray-rumors/ 2023 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Yes, there's going to be a Corvette ZR1. Chevy will mutate the Z06 into the ZR1 by plumbing two turbochargers into the aforementioned 5.5-liter flat-plane V-8. Horsepower will be in the 825 to 850 range. McLaren's already figured out how to squeeze 804 hp from its 4.0-liter twin-turbo, flat-plane V-8 in the Elva. The engine masters at Chevy should have no problem extracting a bit more power than the kids in Woking with an extra liter and a half of displacement to play with. Torque should be ungodly. Beyond that, we know nothing more about the future ZR1. Price should start in the $120K neighborhood, similar to the C7 ZR1. 2023 Chevrolet Corvette PHEV There will be a Corvette hybrid—well, two actually, but let's concentrate on this one. Probably called E-Ray, expect the hybrid C8 to be an AWD plug-in hybrid (PHEV) with two motors on the front axle and possibly a third motor pancaked between the dual-clutch transmission and engine. Kiss the frunk goodbye, as that space will be used for the front traction motors and batteries. What will the engine be? Our source didn't have any new info for us on this one, other than to confirm that it's coming. But our educated bet is that the PHEV will rock the Z06's 5.5-liter NA V-8. Why? The LT1 in the base C8 is a fine old pushrod workhorse, but by the time this PHEV hits dealers, it'll be old. Very old. An engine that's a decade newer will have better engine management software, and we're thinking that would better complement (and future-proof) a modern C8 hybrid. Like, quicker computers and stuff—I'm not a scientician. But maybe not. We've heard other rumors that the LT1 will stick around, in detuned form. Hey, it's a known quantity, right? It's less likely, but maybe Chevy will go all BMW i8 and stick a V-6 or even an inline-four behind the driver? We just don't know. Yet. But as you'll read in a bit, there's good reason to think the hybrid will use the Z06's V-8. As for power, I figure the hybrid will slot in between the Z06 and the ZR1. A total system output of 775 hp feels about right. $100,000 for such a machine makes sense. Would there be room for a less expensive Corvette hybrid with a non-V-8? Oh yes, especially where it snows. 2024 Chevrolet Corvette Electric Have you heard? General Motors would like to sell totally emissions-free cars by 2035 and be carbon neutral as a corporation by 2040. You can't achieve those goals with big, fat, gas-burnin' V-8s, can you? Hence, an all-electric Corvette. Could the electric C8 Corvette be called E-Ray? Yes, it could be—but the important part is, we're sure it's coming, and it's safe to assume that the technology in the C8 hybrid will be shared with EV. In other words, you use the same motors for the front wheels and simply power them with a larger battery pack. Price? Probably less than the ZR1, as the C8 EV will use powertrain pieces from other GM electric vehicles. When does it arrive? 2024 is a good guess. All we know for sure is an EV C8 Corvette is imminent. 2025 Chevrolet Corvette Zora Woo! Meet Chevy's 1,000-plus-horsepower hypercar. We've been writing about the 2025 Corvette Zora for years. No, really—since August 2014. The Zora will use the twin-turbo V-8 from the ZR1 and the hybrid system from the hybrid—E-Ray or whatever it ends up being called. If you figure on 850 hp from the gas engine and 150 hp from the EV components, that gets you right to 1,000 hp. What if each motor produced 150 hp? That would be 1,150 hp. Yes, we're speculating, as Chevy is super tight-lipped about this monster C8. You can start to see the logic behind what the Corvette team is up to. By having the various power units effectively plug and play/mix and match with one another, you get a cost-benefit that keeps prices down across the range. It makes for some very fun math: Z06 engine + front-wheel motors = Corvette hybrid. ZR1 engine + front-wheel motors = Zora. Hence the Zora might start at the relatively cheap price of $150,000. That's what Deep Burble's telling us, at any rate. https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2023-chevrolet-corvette-z06-c8-first-ride-review/ Winning Hearts, Not Just Minds Throughout the 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06's design and development process, the team responsible for it was keenly aware of the respect the C8 Stingray has received in the wider sports-car community. To build on this respect, the Z06 needs to accelerate quicker and handle better, but it also needs to feel even more special. The Z06 must be a car that inspires buyers to eagerly swap their Lamborghini Huracán or Ferrari F8 for—and not because performance tests like MotorTrend's generate better numbers in it, or because of its value proposition. No, Chevy wants to conquest other brands' loyalists via the fact those customers' hearts and heads simply must have this Corvette with the banshee howl, the Can-Am sucker-car grip, and the cockpit-style cabin lined with soft leather and carbon-fiber trim. And because the Z06 promises to be the more satisfying driver's car. https://www.motortrend.com/news/2023-chevrolet-corvette-z06-lt6-v8-flat-plane-crankshaft-tech/ Bonus: Million-Dollar COVID Exhaust The Corvette team really hopes you like the exhaust sound because it was expensive. When the pandemic shut things down, spending also stopped. But the computers kept iterating exhaust system designs, resulting in this one with the center-exit. Everyone loved the sound but tearing up the rear fascia design to accommodate the centrally mounted reverse-megaphone exhaust tips cost "millions." Worth it!

https://www.motortrend.com/news/2023-chevrolet-corvette-z06-lt6-v8-flat-plane-crankshaft-tech/ Not only is the 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06's LT6 engine the largest flat-plane crankshaft V-8 in the world, it's also the world's most powerful naturally aspirated production V-8, leapfrogging the 622-hp 6.2-liter M159 engine that powered the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series from 2013-2014 and producing 670 hp at 8,400 rpm. How did Chevy more than manage to find "a replacement for [745 cubic centimeters' worth of] displacement" relative to that mighty Benz? With better breathing and by spinning the engine a lot faster—horsepower is, after all, just torque times rpm divided by 5,252. Also note that at 460 lb-ft this is not the world's torquiest V-8 (the Benz above made 468). Here are five ways Chevy accomplished this.

Im into Camaros all of a sudden. I guess its a case of KNOWING what we've got before its gone

The next C8 to come out will be the E-Ray Hybrid. Speculation is sometime in 2023. The Z06 is gonna go on sale sometime in 2022. The Grand Sport was supposed to be the next one to be released, but that trim was replaced by a Hybrid Model. The E-Ray. The Grand Sport was supposed to use the 6.2 LT1 but with the Z06 body and aero. No word if it was going to be naturally aspirated or supercharged. Let me stress this part: The E-Ray replaces it What is the E-Ray? It will be AWD. Two electric motors will be powering the front wheels while the LT1 naturally aspirated 6.2 will be powering the rear wheels. It is believed that together as a unit, the electric motors assisting the internal combustion engine to have produce 600 HP and 500 and then some ft/lbs of torque. And of course a battery pack. No word on what KW/H battery it will be. That is still a top secret. No word on what the exterior body will look like. Will it have the Z51 body or will it have the Z06 body or will it even have the Z07 package?! THAT will be the other surprise. One COULD say that the E-Ray is slotted 1 small step above the Z06, but one has to remember that the Z06 is the one that is going to be the most track focused. That also does NOT mean that the E-Ray won't be the fastest around the Nürburgring. There is a lot of engineering in the LT6. If one took the time to read up on it, one wouldnt be casually dismissing it and what that engine means inside the Z06. *Cough* SMK *Cough* And bare in mind, that the Z06, even with the Z07 package, is NOT a comprised daily driver. It has leather, it has A/C. It has retained the trunk AND frunk where one COULD take the Z06/Z07 across the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the Mexico border to the Canadian border, from Washington State to the Florida Keys, from Maine to California zig zagging across the counbtry in comfort while drag racing it and tracking it, then shipping it to Europe, do THAT continent in comfort and stopping at the 'Ring and back home. BECAUSE it HAS a trunk and a frunk, and THE latest magnetic ride control. And the lap times AT the 'Ring are said to be BELOW 7 seconds... Again...the Corvette C8 Z06 is NOT a compromised DAILY DRIVER and it WILL have 'Ring times BELOW 7 seconds... Its a pig of a car said to be 3400lbs. The internet is discussing if that is dry weight or with all its liquids. IIt wont be that bad if it was 3400lbs net weight. But the thing is, the Z06/Z07 IS a no compromise daily driver MASS produced track beast. It WONT be a garage queen. And it AINT a boutique, limited produced, illegal for the street, race machine costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Z06 is said to be BELOW 100 000 dollars. THAT is incredible engineering!!!! And if THAT does not impress you, the miracle of flight wont either...so there is nothing to argue about with a naysayer...

Nice '64 LeMans on eBay, claimed 16K miles. Bid up to $21,600 as I type this : https://www.ebay.com/itm/185126167421?mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5337851298&customid=485727&toolid=10001&mkevt=1

Here is something we will NEVER see out of German Brands in an actual auto or even as a crate option. 10.3 Liters of Naturally Aspirated Big Block Power with no Turbo's or anything special running on Pump Gas. @balthazar Should put this in his 59 car! https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/gm-crate-engine-zz632-1000-horsepower/ https://www.gmperformancemotor.com/parts/19432060.html They are taking pre-orders now, $29,499.00 PRODUCT DETAILS Chevrolet’s Biggest, Baddest Big-Block Ever! • Tall-deck Sportsman Bowtie block with an all-forged roller assembly • Hydraulic roller camshaft and all-new, high-flow spread-port cylinder heads derived from Pro Stock racing technology • Crank-trigger ignition system with coil-near-plug ignition coils mounted on a unique valley plate • EFI induction system for precise fuel control and stunning output with pump gas • Kit includes pre-programmed, self-learning control system • Due to crate fitment, the throttle body is shipped uninstalled and must be installed by the engine installer • Requires starter, EFI-compatible high-pressure fuel pump and air cleaner compatible with 4500-series (Dominator) mounting flange • Cylinder head exhaust port design requires custom exhaust system • Requires internally balanced flywheel for manual transmission applications • Not intended for marine applications TECH SPECS Part Number: 19432060 Engine Type: Chevy Tall-Deck Big-Block V-8 Displacement (cu in): 632 Bore x Stroke (in / mm): 4.600 x 4.750 Block (P/N 19366599): Cast iron Bowtie with 4-bolt main caps – tall deck Crankshaft (P/N 19366600): Forged 4340 steel Connecting Rods (P/N 19432392): Forged steel H-beam Pistons (P/N 19366601): Forged aluminum 2618 alloy Intake Manifold (P/N 19366614): Aluminum high-rise single-plane Throttle Body (P/N 19366624): 4500-style Fuel Injectors (P/N 19432057): 86-lb/hr Camshaft Type (P/N 19432531): Billet steel hydraulic roller Valve Lift (in): 0.780 intake / 0.782 exhaust Camshaft Duration (@ 0.050 in): 270º intake / 285º exhaust Cylinder Heads (P/N 19431810): Aluminum spread-port; 70cc chambers – RS-X design Valve Size (in): 2.450 intake / 1.800 exhaust, titanium (5/16-in stem OD) Ignition Type: 58X crank-triggered, coil-near-plug Compression Ratio: 12.0:1 (nominal) Rocker Arms (P/N 19431272): Forged aluminum; roller-style Rocker Arm Ratio: 1.8:1 (shaft-mount) Water Pump (P/N 14058915): Aluminum Oil Pan (P/N 19366604): Steel 8-quart Recommended Fuel: Premium pump (93 octane or higher) Maximum Recommended RPM: 7,000 rpm Balanced: Internal