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GM has launched a new premium design studio in the UK that created this simplified Corvette concept car.
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The Corvette concept pairs a low body with classic design tips, such as a split rear windshield.
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This concept will be one of several Corvette concepts revealed this year, as well as the GMC concept from the British studio.
Like the vultures at mid-summer afternoon baseball game, McDonald’s Coca-Cola is also the American Chevrolet Corvette, a staple in the United States. But what if the iconic sports car was designed in the UK? GM has just opened a new premium design studio outside Birmingham, England, and is set for the new space, and the automaker has revealed the futuristic Corvette design research of its British team.
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The new facility at the Royal Leamington Spa is launched as General Motors prepares to start selling Corvette in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. The studio will be led by Julian Thomson, who penned the first-generation Lotus Elise, styled the Land Rover LRX concept, which previewed the Evoque, and oversaw Jaguar’s advanced design department until 2021. The new 24,584-square-foot space will house over 30 designers for the advanced design team, which typically gazes five to 10 years into the future of automotive innovation.
To this end, the British team provided a vision for the futuristic Corvette. GM says there is no production intention behind this concept, while designers focus on reimagining the appearance of Corvette in the coming decades. This concept clearly originated from Corvette’s modern era, its rakish, the proportion of the middle engine, but clearly pointed to the legendary history of Corvette, its front and rear windshield split.
The body is clean and divided into a unique, smooth white upper and black lower portions, where the spongy intake passage passes through the body tunnel air, thus forming the wings of the chest hair gaud. GM hints that the concept is electric, claiming that the battery has been integrated into the vehicle’s structure.
The body is made of additive manufacturing, another way to 3-D printing, and has dramatic gull wing doors. Overall, the concept is 183.8 inches long and the same size as the current C8 Corvette, but is nearly 10 inches wider and about 8 inches shorter from top to bottom. The cabin is simple, with smooth chairs molded on the car’s structure and rectangular yoke steering wheel.
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The concept of Corvette seen here is just the beginning. GM said the concept is part of a global design project that will involve studios around the world and will be joined with more Corvette concepts later in 2025.
The company also teased the GMC concept, which will be on display later this year; it was designed in collaboration with a specific team in Detroit’s GMC. The GMC concept seems to show a square design with straight line form and three-line patterns in the headlights and taillights.
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