Designated Blackjack, this "test mule" for the Stingray Corvette it's a… monster of Frankenstein. What appears to be a Holden Ute (pick-up) with extremely wide lanes, a huge rear wing and the interior of a Corvette C7 actually hides the basic architecture with a centrally located engine — placed in the cargo box — of the new Corvette Stingray.
As if that wasn't enough, Blackjack hides one more particularity, referring to its gearbox. At the level where the Corvette Stingray stands, a dual-clutch gearbox would have to be the default choice.
With none in the catalog that “fit” their needs, Chevrolet engineers went looking for the one that is considered the best, and moreover, from one of the main rivals of the Corvette, the PDK of the Porsche 911 — since it is the reference , why not learn from one of the most praised broadcasts of its kind by working closely with this one?
It would be up to Tremec to develop the dual-clutch gearbox for the new Corvette Stingray, but now we have to wait for the first tests to see if the PDK's teachings really carried over into the final product.
And Blackjack? Yes, it still lives...
Source: Popular Mechanics
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