Right now, automotive enthusiasts are hungry for midengine Corvette content. But with the reveal still a week away, everyone is pretty much taking what they can get. Chevy teased the car itself when it announced the date of its reveal, but we haven't seen much more from them until today.
Chevrolet
on Friday published the first official image of the 2020 C8 Corvette's
steering wheel. It's closer to the steering wheel of, say, the Ford GT
than the outgoing Corvette. There are only two spokes on the wheel,
each moving downwards in sort of a flipped manner to the Corvette logo's
flags. There are audio controls below each spoke, and some limited
switches on the spokes themselves. The massive open space above the
wheel hub looks kind of funny, but that might be necessary if the
Corvette has a large gauge cluster, digital or otherwise.
The least attractive wheel of the bunch belongs to the C5 Corvette, with its airbag looking like a very obvious goiter. Then again, that was also the low point in the Corvette's interior design, with barely shaped plastic panels that basically became a meme in the automotive enthusiast community before memes became a "thing."
It'll be interesting to see where Chevrolet takes the Corvette's interior next, given the radical changes happening everywhere else on the car -- like, you know, removing the engine from the front. We'll know what's up for sure when the C8 Corvette makes its debut on July 18 at 7:30 p.m. PT, and you can follow along with us on GM's own livestream.
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