Yahoo Autos Corvette Icon Tadge Juechter Will Be an Easter Egg on New Vettes
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. 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.
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