With Chevrolet’s first mid‑engined Corvette now in the UK, we put on a little welcoming committee from two of Europe’s biggest hitters: Audi’s R8 RWD and Porsche’s Cayman GTS...
I’m not sure quite what to expect from the R8. We had one in briefly for a first drive and its passive damper set-up didn’t elicit much praise. This example also has the standard-fit springs and dampers , but a glance at the ever-so-slightly undernourished rims in the arches betrays the fact that car is running the standard 19-inch wheels, as opposed to the 20-inch rims of that previous example; maybe that’ll make a difference.
So to the Corvette. Immediately, I’m struck by its size, for it is much bigger than I’d imagined and certainly wider, very much the full-fat supercar in terms of road presence. And while we never like to dwell on matters of style at– it’s personal taste, after all – to be blunt, all of us are struck by just how ungainly the C8 looks from some angles, something not helped by the black wheels and a track that doesn’t quite fill out the arches.
By now you won’t be at all surprised to hear that the C8 offers a lot of driver modes: there’s Weather, Tour, Sport and Track, plus a ‘MyMode’ and a Z mode . I start by shuffling through all of them, but rapidly settle on Tour for the mundane stuff and the usualroad tester’s recipe of a Z mode set to awakened engine and ’box but with medium ride comfort.
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