The C8 would be a terrible choice for any kind of cross-country touring. Be prepared to have your luggage melted if you put it in the rear trunk. There is no storage within the cabin, and the front trunk is a joke. It's an amazing car, and punches way above its price range, but it's really not a Great car for anything other than the track or going to cars and coffee and local day trips.
Plus: It's not any more Corvette than the Mach E is a Mustang. A Corvette is a front engine rear-wheel drive American classic. Chevy should have done with the c8 What Ford did with the GT40. A car marketed and sold at an echelon above the GT500 Fords TOP Mustang model. In fact, I think you'd be better served going for a Mustang GT500 or Mach 1 over a C8 for a cross-country tour with your wife. REAL trunk, very comfortable, But you do you......
If you insist on doing this in a Corvette, do yourself a favor and get a C7. You're welcome.
But if you really want to enjoy this ride, go for a Cayman or 911.
My wife is German born and raised… she likes the C8 because it’s American and she really dislikes Porsches. I don’t much like them either. She might go for the Mustang but I find it boring.
My own interest in the C8 is that it’s not much like a traditional Corvette and more like an Italian exotic without so much of the nonsense. I like the C7 for its manual transmission but otherwise it’s not a car that I’d want to own.
The C8 convertible has more useable trunk space than the coupe with the top stowed, and given that our normal touring routine is on a Ducati ST or similar, it’s plenty of room for us.
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