Here’s everything we know about the 2024 Corvette E-Ray hybrid

When the hybrid 'Vette goes on sale later this year, it will be the quickest of them all.

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[Frodo Douchebaggins]

I'd just love it if the V8 aficionados in my neighborhood could go to work, or wherever it is they're going, without announcing their intentions to everyone.

Loud exhausts and loud stereos are for assholes. Nobody should have to hear someone else's car from inside their house.

 

[Frodo Douchebaggins]

It's the same capacity as the battery in a Toyota Prius, which weirdly no one seems to complain about or make fun of. I wonder why?

Hey hold up Doc, I complain about and make fun of the Prius all the time. Just not for its battery size.

Mostly for the fact that every Uber or Lyft driver with one seems to have a CEL illuminated full-time. What's with that?

 

[Frodo Douchebaggins]

Any modern "analog" dash is plenty digital, I guarantee it. The dials haven't been directly connected to whatever they're displaying in quite awhile.

Having the instrument cluster implemented on a screen instead of physical dials is a great improvement. You can emulate dials if you want, but it gives you the freedom to do anything. That means the instrument cluster can change to fit specific use cases. Flying around the track? Have a huge tachometer front and center. Cruising down the highway on a long road trip? Get navigation updates right in front of you.

But know what sucks about it? The amount of stupid assholes running around with their headlights off because they no longer need to flip a switch that enables exterior lighting AND makes the dash instruments readable.

I'm unequivocally in favor of automatic exterior lights on all new cars. Put in the ability to manually turn OFF the lights if needed, but it should reset back to automatic next time the car is driven.

Also something that gives the driver 1 hour of explosive diarrhea the first time they enable fog lights in non-foggy conditions, and doubles each time thereafter.

 

[Frodo Douchebaggins]

C5 is when Corvette really got back to being a street legal race car, and (for me) C6 is when they got the looks right as well. There's a video of a Blue Devil setting a record on the Nurburgring that's amazing to watch, and right now those cars are selling in the $70k range. I'd love to have one (not that I could even come close to using its full potential).

I've only had one car built on the Corvette platform (a Cadillac XLR, of all things), and it was a hybrid of the C5/C6 platform from my understanding. While Cadillac unfortunately did some ruination of the sporting intentions of the vehicle with some odd choices, it was still a very enjoyable car and I'd love to have a real 'Vette some day.

 

[Frodo Douchebaggins]

Who is spending 100k for a corvette just to take it on short runs to town on a battery? Buy a Bolt.

Based on the mileage numbers I've seen on a lot of upper-middle sport cars I've seen in the possession of friends and family, that's about all the usage most of them get.

 

[Frodo Douchebaggins]

I live on a busy 4 lane street, and due to whatever construction quality, I can hear anything from personal sidewalk conversations to modified exhausts.

Where do we place the assholes in this scenario? What do we do about the clunky city buses? How much quietness can I reasonably expect in my house based on the activity levels present in the neighborhood/on the street I’ve chosen to live?

Well obviously there's going to be some level of reasonable adjustment of the theory, but noise pollution is hell.

IDK what sort of bunker you'd need to not be able to hear garbage trucks.

 

[Frodo Douchebaggins]

While we are at it, can we please lose all of these ultra bright, blinding headlights? I recently drove a Camry hybrid rental that had them, and felt like an asshole every time I drove at night.

There are good ultra bright headlights, and bad ones.

Toyota has been doing some bad ones with awful cast-off to the sides, actually. Being directly in front or back isn't bad but when I'm getting passed I get eye-fucked through my side mirror sometimes.

IDK if Tesla changed their lights or if they're aiming them higher now but I'm frequently getting blinded by them.