The inside of the eighth-generation Chevrolet Corvette is stuffed with buttons and lights. One no person was anticipating to search out, although, is a glowplug mild.

That’s proper, a light-weight related to the startup process of a diesel engine might be seen just below the verify engine mild within the instrument cluster of a 2021 Corvette discovered by Redditor u/refrigerator_runner.

It’s laborious to search out many close-up footage of the world across the instrument panel within the Corvette, in opposition to which to check this picture, however Doug Demuro’s evaluation of the 2020 ‘Vette does present the sprint, and it seems just like the picture was taken from the warning mild strip on the fitting facet of the instrument display.

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The feedback part from the submit did have a couple of amusing recommendations as to why the sunshine could be there. One recommended that it’d truly be a donut mild, whereas one other recommended that perhaps it’s proof that GM is planning a Duramax model of the Corvette with 15,000 lbs of towing functionality, which ought to assist get your race tires to the monitor with ease.

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Nonetheless, once we requested Chevrolet, a spokesperson instructed us that the reason is way more easy: the sunshine is just there as a leftover.

“We recognize the hypothesis, however that image was included as a part of our standardization course of,” a spokesperson instructed us in an electronic mail. “It’s not indicative of any plans so as to add the characteristic to Corvette and we plan to take away the icon sooner or later.”

So, that is positively not a cleverly hidden characteristic, though there’s no scarcity of these within the C8 Corvette. Between the seats, a speaker encompasses a delicate Corvette brand on the perforated part. The flags are additionally hidden within the rear window because the shaded dot sample on the high of the glass. On the entrance windshield, in the meantime, Zora Arkus-Duntov, the daddy of the Corvette, might be seen within the decrease nook of the glass.

All of that are good nods to the historical past of one of many longest-lasting sports activities automobiles on earth which could have switched to a mid-engined format however will, sensibly, not be powered by a diesel engine.