- Every 2025 Chevy Corvette will feature an image of the car’s executive chief engineer Tadge Juechter.
- Juechter lead the development of the C7 and C8 generations and is retiring this summer.
- The Corvette icon’s face will be immortalized as an Easter egg on new models for years to come, starting with the 2025 ZR1.
The man who helped bring the insane 1064-hp Corvette ZR1 to life is set to enter retirement this summer, but his image will be immortalized on new Corvette models for years to come.
Corvette executive chief engineer Tadge Juechter soon will stop clocking into his job at General Motors after spending the past 47 years with the company—31 of which were spent working on America’s favorite sports car. To honor the godfather of the C7 and C8 generations, Chevy has revealed that every new Corvette will feature a graphic of Juechter’s face.
News of Juechter’s immortalization came last night during the reveal of the C8 Corvette ZR1. There he accepted the token of appreciation on stage surrounded by the last mid-engined monsters he’ll help create. Juechter also said multiple times that he will be retiring next Wednesday, July 31. In the background on a towering display was an enlarged version of the special graphic that’s set to debut on the the 2025 ZR1.
Juechter’s image will be an Easter egg versus something prominent. It’ll appear on the top left of the ZR1 coupe’s split rear window. The same depiction of his face will also appear in a corner of the windshield as well as on the front tunnel reinforcement panel. These will be on every 2025 model (Stingray, Z06, E-Ray) presumably for as long as Chevy keeps building Corvettes.
Juechter joins the Corvette’s other legendary chief engineer—maybe you’ve heard of him, Zora Arkus-Duntov—who already appears on the windshield of every new Vette.
Eric Stafford’s automobile addiction began before he could walk, and it has fueled his passion to write news, reviews, and more for Car and Driver since 2016. His aspiration growing up was to become a millionaire with a Jay Leno–like car collection. Apparently, getting rich is harder than social-media influencers make it seem, so he avoided financial success entirely to become an automotive journalist and drive new cars for a living. After earning a journalism degree at Central Michigan University and working at a daily newspaper, the years of basically burning money on failed project cars and lemon-flavored jalopies finally paid off when Car and Driver hired him. His garage currently includes a 2010 Acura RDX, a manual ’97 Chevy Camaro Z/28, and a ’90 Honda CRX Si.
Source: Motor - aranddriver.com
