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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.