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On Friday, GM unveiled a pair of futuristic Corvette concepts, the CX and the CX.R Vision Gran Turismo, and they have a canopy that opens like a fighter jet.
The concepts made their debut at The Quail, a "motorsports gathering" held in Carmel, California. The novel designs aren't production vehicles, but rather serve as inspiration to inform Corvette's design language.
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The Corvette CX is designed to provide high-performance driving on the road as well as the track. While it has many of the Corvette hallmarks, like a forward-lunging nose, it also has a fighter-jet-inspired cockpit canopy designed in collaboration with the GM Motorsports Aero Group.
The CX concept is an all-wheel-drive electric supercar with a propulsion system that includes four motors, one powering each wheel, generating more than 2,000 horsepower. The 90-kWh lithium-ion battery is mounted in the chassis for a low center of gravity.
The project is the latest and last of several Corvette concepts to be revealed this year, as part of GM’s design exercise across multiple GM studios that empowers the company’s designers to step away from the constraints of production vehicles and unleash their creativity. If you recall, GM unveiled a 3D-printed Corvette earlier this year created by GM's UK team. The CX concepts came out of the Chevrolet Performance Studio in Warren, MI.
The CX.R VGT is a hybrid. A twin-turbo V8 that generates up to 900 horsepower and 15,000 rpm drives the rear wheels. Three electric motors, one on each front wheel, and a third integrated into the 8-speed gearbox, provide instant torque and contribute to a total system output of 2,000 hp.
While the most disappointing part of the project is the caveat in each caption, "Not available for sale," you will still be able to test drive the CX or CX.R, at least virtually, in Gran Turismo 7—and it should be a pretty accurate representation. Chevy’s performance engineers and the Corvette design team sent detailed blueprints to Polyphony Digital, the Japanese video game development arm of Sony Interactive Entertainment that created the popular series.
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On Friday, GM unveiled a pair of futuristic
Corvette concepts.
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The CX and the CXR Vision Gran Turismo, and they
have a canopy that opens like
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a fighter jet.
The concepts made their debut at the Quail,
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a motorsports gathering held in Carmel,
California.
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The novel designs aren't production vehicles,
but rather serve as inspiration to inform
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Corvette's design language.
The Corvette CX is designed to provide high
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performance driving on the road as well as the
track.
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While it has many of the Corvette hallmarks,
like a forward-lunging nose,
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it also has a fighter jet-inspired cockpit
canopy designed in collaboration with the GM
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Motorsports Aero Group.
The CX concept is an all-wheel-drive electric
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supercar with a propulsion system that includes
four motors,
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one powering each wheel, generating more than
2,000 horsepower.
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The 90 kilowatt-hour lithium-ion battery is
mounted in the chassis for a low center of
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gravity.
The project is the latest and last of several
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Corvette concepts to be revealed this year, all
as part of GM's design exercise across multiple
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GM studios that empowers
the company's designers to kind of step away
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from the constraints of production vehicles and
unleash their creativity.
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If you recall, GM unveiled a 3D-printed
Corvette earlier this year that was created by
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GM's UK team.
The CX concepts came out of the Chevrolet
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Performance Studio in Warren, Michigan.
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The CXR BGT is a hybrid, a twin-turbo V8 that
generates up to 900 horsepower and
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15,000 RPM drives
the rear wheels.
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Three electric motors, one on each front wheel, and
a third integrated into an 8-speed gearbox,
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provide instant torque and contribute to a
total system output of 2,000 horsepower.
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While the most disappointing part of the
project is the caveat in each caption not
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available for sale, you will still be able to
test drive the CX and CXR,
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at least virtually, in Gran Turismo 7.
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And it should be a pretty accurate
representation.
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Chevy's performance engineers and the Corvette
design team sent detailed blueprints to
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Polyphony Digital, the Japanese video game
development arm of Sony Interactive
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Entertainment that created the popular series.
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I'm David Mante.
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This is Manufacturing Now.
