Can we have a C9 thread?
 

The first C8 prototype with Holden Ute body parts debuted January 2015 for a 2020 MY car that was supposed to be on sale Q4 '19. Sources are reporting the C9 will be a MY29 vehicle on sale in '28. It will be a revised C8 platform. Wonder when we'll see that break cover? I guess it won't need as much testing if it's a change akin to C5>C6>C7 vs. the C7 > C8 paradigm shift?

C9 - https://www.autoblog.com/2023/01/24/...0current%20car.

First C8 articles 2015 - https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a1...t-photos-news/

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lmmfao...

Jan '25 is the answer I received as well.

What? C8 is old now... the fun is figuring out what's next. Was great fun the last few generations and the timeline is getting near with us being 5 years out from a C9 in summer 2028.

If the C9 Z06 has some version of the LT6 without hybrid assist or turbos… guess I won’t be keeping this C8 Z06 after I finally get my hands on one. We’ll see, I’m not convinced.

I’m all about speculation and love the fun of trying to figure out what’s going on during the development of a Corvette next gen rollout… but I think it’s a bit early to be speculating on anything when there’s no mules that we know of or information to speculate on.

First on the C11 list at my local dealer. He says no ADM. I will get the list emailed to me in writing the day after tomorrow.

However I have seen a few one this forum does not understand what that means and they would be bent out of shape for suggesting any that are not aligned with their views. :)
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What was interesting is prospect of a 800 hp EV sedan? A Tesla competitor?? Add some of performance suspensions/ brakes from the Corvettes? In a lighter pkg then the current Teslas?
Or the C9 Eray with more hp DOHC, lighter pkg and plug in hybrid?
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you're a bit late to the game. Everyone and their grandma have been on the C11 list since 2021. Now we're on to C14 list. I heard nation wide open tomorrow

Don't be so hasty...Average transaction price for the C9Z is likely to be well over 200k given current trends. :toetap:

I’m 41…. If you assume average 7 year generation and C9 debuts in calendar year 2028, the C14 would debut in 2063 and I’d be 82.

OMG, C9? Aren't the lists like 5 years long already? The experts will tell you that anybody not on a "list" won't get one of those either. :rofl:

Its's a little early for a C9 list people. But put me on the C9 ZO6 list!

Part of me says it doesn’t take 5 years to test an electric motor powered C9, but then again it’s taken Tesla longer than that to release 2nd gen Roadster no?

While I'm excited to see where the C9 goes, 99% of what we could discuss would be speculation vice the electrification aspect of it. We all know that the C9 will have at least some variant that will be partially, if not fully electric. Other than that, we can assume that it'll be an evolution in styling with the C8 and not an entire restructure.

GM design posted these sketches on IG. Current rumors/info/chatter is a revised/updated C8 Y2 chassis and some form of ICE. Wonder if it will only be hybrid or if we can still get pure ICE?

https://www.carscoops.com/wp-content.../GM-Design.jpg
https://www.corvetteblogger.com/imag.../053023_9b.jpg

I heard from a reliable source that the C14 will be supersonic!

Why bother posting? The C8 is about to enter it's 5th MY in a few months. We were all talking C8 when the 2017 C7 was out.

We can be reasonably sure it won't look like that. Take the C8 clay model and initial drawings for example, which, imo, looked way better than the final product.

The side vent in the bottom pic is too R8.

Well yeah... they're design integrations, still fun to see where their brains are. Agree on bottom one being very R8.

It is true that we will already be 5 model years into the C8 pretty soon (I have an old 21')

5 years into the C7 model was 2018 - only 1 year before the C8 was introduced.

It's probably time for a C9 speculation forum

As long as they stick to their word and make it gas powered (with the 6th gen V8 GM is currently developing) that's all I really care about at this point.