After sneaking out a little bit ahead of the scheduled time, it’s now been confirmed that both the Chevrolet Corvette CX Concept and its racing twin CX.R Vision Gran Turismo will be arriving in Gran Turismo 7 later this month.
Presented at the Monterey Car Week event, during “The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering”, the two concepts are both heading to the game in the August update. We don’t currently have a date for that, but we’re expecting it to be August 28 as the fourth and final Thursday in the month.
As we expected, the CX is the third of three Corvette concepts revealed in 2025. The first, from the brand’s new advanced design studio in the UK, was presented back in March, with a second from the established Pasadena studio being revealed last month. The Chevrolet Performance Studio in Warren, Michigan, created these latest concepts.
The CX will be a pure EV, with this concept car sporting a quad-motor setup. It’s not yet known what the precise power balance of the four motors — each driving an individual wheel — will be, but the combined power output is 2,000hp.
Coming in at just 41 inches high, the CX concept also sports active and ground effect aerodynamics, comprising a moving front splitter and rear wing and a fan system called the Vacuum Fan System for generating high downforce even at rest.
The cabin is accessed through an enormous, front-hinged canopy, the windscreen of which operates as a giant, augmented reality display.
Much of the CX concept’s basic design carries over to the CX.R, though there are some significant differences after that point.
It’s no longer a pure EV, for example, instead sporting a hybrid setup with a V8 engine and three electric motors. The V8 is specified by GM as a two-liter, twin turbo unit that revs up to 15,000rpm and provides some 900hp all by itself.
There’s then an electric motor for each front wheel, while a third is part of the eight-speed gearbox — presumably as a torque infill device — and the whole rig generates the same 2,000hp as the concept sibling.
Neither car is intended for production, though Chevrolet does state that “the pair will serve as inspiration to inform Corvette design language for years to come”. Certainly the “X” in the name could serve as a suggestion that these hint towards a potential tenth generation of Corvette, or the generation after the next.
At this point in time we don’t know what else, if anything, is coming in the August update for Gran Turismo 7 so watch this space for all the latest as we learn of it!
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