So this is a Corvette C8. We actually have driven one before for television. Yes, we have. We have not driven this version though because this is the convertible.

So the 1953 car, the very first Corvette was introduced as a convertible. So it just kind of makes sense that we're back in the 8th generation, the newest Corvette as a convertible only.

You'll see people who have the target top off the hard top. So they'll take that roof panel off and people might think that it is convertible. Indeed it is not because this is a hard top convertible.

It fully disappears and the best part is Corvette engineers have figured out when there's more heat trapped in there by the convertible top. They've figured out how to get it out.

So new convertible, we're going to put the windows up for the benefit of audio. But the other thing about it is if you look at this with the convertible top down, it has very much a style like the current McLaren or Ferrari convertibles. I mean that's high praise.

It actually looks like a normal coupe when it's all closed up and then you drop all the pieces and it has these great little humps at the back. It looks a lot like the McLaren and Ferrari's right now.

Yeah, it does. You're obligated to look at this car. When you see it, everybody is obligated. It's like fly paper for your eyeballs. Yes.

Because when you do, everybody will say, wow, even if they don't know what it is, they'll say, that's pretty awesome car. Which means to me that the aura of Corvette has returned.

Certainly has been changed in the modern time for sure. I think it just occurred about the third generation of the Corvette. I think it went away. It's no longer a special wow. You got a Corvette.

Okay. You got a sports car. There's many sports cars on the market. But the aura to me of the car has returned because everybody looks at this car.

You're right. Everybody gapes at this car totally because of our American original film. We drove every version and we definitely understand the specialness of Corvette.

But unless you were a person that already liked them, when the new one came out, you kind of didn't care. Right?

And I think this is a car that has blasted past all of that. I have had at least two people say to me, just since we got the press car, that's a Corvette.

They're just shocked by that reality. I think that says...

Everybody not falling along with automotive media on the planet. Absolutely.

Sees this thing and thinks, is that a...

And then to go one further, the people that have seen it only on the internet, see it in person and go, that's a lot better than I thought it was going to be.

That looks really great. There was a lot of controversy and we've talked about it as well. You've even redesigned it about should this look different than it does.

But I do have to say, in person, it is commanding. There is that presence.

You're of expensive cars. Yes, the things that all these expensive high-end cars have, you think, wow, you're something special.

And now the top goes down so that people can see inside who is driving the car and has this exquisite taste.

This commanding presence, you've picked that car and the best part about it is with this Aura fully loaded 3LT.

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