The dramatic donut maneuver happened at the legendary ice rink at Rockefeller Center.
. The timing was just too good—the original Corvette burst onto the scene 70 years ago to the day, on January 17, 1953, at the GM Motorama show at NYC's Waldorf-Astoria hotel. So, as part of the E-Ray's media rollout, GM arranged for the hybrid sports car to make an appearance on NBC's Today show, a nationally televised morning program.
His name is Cody Bulkley, and he's a Chevrolet performance integration engineer specializing in e-AWD chassis control integration. Translation: He worked on getting the E-Ray's front electric drive motor to play with the 6.2-liter V-8 powering the rear axle. This week, however, he was on a media blitz for Chevy.
Back when the team was on one of its calibration forays in northern Michigan, also in garbage time at the end of a session, Cody did what any of us might do if they found themselves in a new, all-wheel-drive Corvette on an open snow surface: He ripped a few donuts. It was during that brief hoon that he discovered the Corvette could spin in place, essentially not moving in any direction, with all four tires rotating the car on its axis.
Having never done more than a few rotations at a time, but figuring that the Corvette's 70th anniversary deserved something special, he rolled into the throttle before leaving it pinned. The precise count, from one of his team members that looked on, of spins? He says"20 full rotations." Indeed, from the video, the Corvette"cyclones" for around 30 seconds uninterrupted.
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