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Of course we do not know whether the 2020 entry ME would have a non-spoiler version, but harking back to 2014, the C7 came that way without one (just its tiny, center area only, duckbill uplift due to its HTMSL), and of course for $5K more, separately offered a spoilered Z-51 version. My guess, and it is strictly that, is that we will again have two 2020 versions, if nothing else for the overriding consideration that GM is wanting to have as low a price entry point for the ME, and thus will not include higher performance/higher cost components in the entry version — saving those components for option package that first year.
Re the C7, we have three good friends who chose a Stingray without a spoiler. Candidly, while my wife and I we were on the other end of the spectrum by adding a center wickerbill to our stage 2 Z06, yet from an aesthetic point of view, both my gearhead wife and I prefer looking at the rear quarter of the non-spoilered version. Without the spoiler, it looks sleeker and more artistically refined IOO.
We hope that just like the C7 Stingray, the entry 2020 mid engine C8 offers both an entry, flat-decked version, and, a higher perf 2020 spoilered version — most probably with the same spoiler that we saw at Nurburgring:
We do not have any information as to whether GM chooses to retain any of the C7’s names for the ME. They could for example, call the entry C8 version a “Manta Ray,” and then have an option for the Manta be instead of a “Z-51” package, be called a “Zora“ option, a Z-79 option or whatever. Hence, we will call one an “entry version,” the other a “spoilered version.”
While I prefer the renderings of fvs to all others, and while his are the most accurate IMO, below is an interesting comparison of what the ME would like look with or without a spoiler. Major credit to the renderer Kool K Sung Studio in Korea. Good looking car! Thank you RedDropTop for first finding post the immediately-below rendering, and thank you also to VETTE-NV for showing us a second version of that same car without any rear deck spoiler.
Now zeroing on the main focus of this thread, those who are getting a 2020+ entry level ME, assuming that you only have one OEM choice as shown abov3, would you choose to get it with or without its higher-performance spoiler (again assuming Corvette were to offer both versions).
True, giving up the spoiler, if I remember correctly the exact testing numbers, reduced the Stingray’s cornering capability from 1.06G in the spoilered Z-51 version to “just” (LOL) 1.01G in the entry version, but do we need more than 1.01G when driving on the street? Even when I was driving spiritedly on an isolated back roads, just once on a hot summer day in the middle of nowhere, did I hit ever achieve as high as .98G on a public road.
As we do not plan on tracking our ME, my wife and I will not need, nor get, the spoilered 2020 ME.
I am guessing that those of you who track your cars, would want a spoilered version. Good for you.
What about you? How will you order with your entry ME — with or without a spoiler?
Or, if GM does not offer any other version of the spoilered version other than picture. above, might you contact ACS Composite or some other quality aftermarket provider and look at their expected spoiler options?
Re the C7, we have three good friends who chose a Stingray without a spoiler. Candidly, while my wife and I we were on the other end of the spectrum by adding a center wickerbill to our stage 2 Z06, yet from an aesthetic point of view, both my gearhead wife and I prefer looking at the rear quarter of the non-spoilered version. Without the spoiler, it looks sleeker and more artistically refined IOO.
We hope that just like the C7 Stingray, the entry 2020 mid engine C8 offers both an entry, flat-decked version, and, a higher perf 2020 spoilered version — most probably with the same spoiler that we saw at Nurburgring:
We do not have any information as to whether GM chooses to retain any of the C7’s names for the ME. They could for example, call the entry C8 version a “Manta Ray,” and then have an option for the Manta be instead of a “Z-51” package, be called a “Zora“ option, a Z-79 option or whatever. Hence, we will call one an “entry version,” the other a “spoilered version.”
While I prefer the renderings of fvs to all others, and while his are the most accurate IMO, below is an interesting comparison of what the ME would like look with or without a spoiler. Major credit to the renderer Kool K Sung Studio in Korea. Good looking car! Thank you RedDropTop for first finding post the immediately-below rendering, and thank you also to VETTE-NV for showing us a second version of that same car without any rear deck spoiler.
Now zeroing on the main focus of this thread, those who are getting a 2020+ entry level ME, assuming that you only have one OEM choice as shown abov3, would you choose to get it with or without its higher-performance spoiler (again assuming Corvette were to offer both versions).
True, giving up the spoiler, if I remember correctly the exact testing numbers, reduced the Stingray’s cornering capability from 1.06G in the spoilered Z-51 version to “just” (LOL) 1.01G in the entry version, but do we need more than 1.01G when driving on the street? Even when I was driving spiritedly on an isolated back roads, just once on a hot summer day in the middle of nowhere, did I hit ever achieve as high as .98G on a public road.
As we do not plan on tracking our ME, my wife and I will not need, nor get, the spoilered 2020 ME.
I am guessing that those of you who track your cars, would want a spoilered version. Good for you.
What about you? How will you order with your entry ME — with or without a spoiler?
Or, if GM does not offer any other version of the spoilered version other than picture. above, might you contact ACS Composite or some other quality aftermarket provider and look at their expected spoiler options?
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