C7 Corvette
 

According to a one-sentence blurb in Automobile Magazine, the next generation Corvette will be mid-engined!?

This delights sports car fans like me, but is sure to piss off the Corvette faithful.

Why would it piss them off? If it's fast, handles well, looks good and isn't too pricey, wouldn't they be happy as can be? :confused:

But...but...

The engine is in the wrong place...

"Only durn furn cars have der injuns in back."

Just wait, someone will call it "not a real Corvette".

Slowly but surely the Vette is winning me over. This is a big step in that direction, but Chris I think you're right - it may alienate the gold-chain crowd.

They should make both a front engine and mid-engine vette. make the mid-engine one called the Aerovette or Corvair III.

Heck in the latest Car and Driver the standard C7 beats the 997TT around VIR--and thats not even the Z06. Nice.

You mean like changing the engine position in a 911? :p

They have been talking about a mid engine Corvette for over a decade... and I think it would be a good thing... but look what happened when Porsche tried to replace the 911 with the 928.

It will not be the first time they toyed with a mid engine design in the Vette.

I do not hate the car but the politics in certain racing venues that I was involved in. That is what caused me to only want to do one thing with my RX7, beat Corvettes.

Honestly, if they keep improving this car much more I will no longer be able to do that.

A mid engine vette would get my attention and might win me over.

I don't think Corvette guys get hung up on this stuff. As long as the ponies are there, and you give them better weight distribution, I'm sure they'll be giddy. The 911/928 analogy is different, as the appearance of the car changed completely, it got a lot heavier, and it handled completely different. They were trying to change from a capable sports car to a GT cruiser...kinda like going from a 'vette to a Buick. ;)

Didn't GM already try a mid-engine Corvette with the Fiero?

Huh? Fiero? Oh...you must be thinking Chevette. :p

well as an owner of a 2007 C6 Z51 vette and a 1983 911SC Cab I can tell you that the vette is definately faster! ;)

I love the power (mainly the torque) of the Vette, its addicting, but my 911 is so much more fun.

Its more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow. The sounds of my flat 6 are awesome. The C6 is very modern, which is nice for AC, but when I am in the 911 I cannot imagine leaving the Porsche family....

I'd like to look back on this post about a month before the mid-engined 'vette is due to launch :D

I bet there are Corvette purists who will be up in arms just like the 911 crowd when Porsche changed to a water cooled engine in the 996.
Saying that there weren't many objections when Chevrolet changed the traditional Corvette design to one that went round corners. ;)

That's whack.

As pointed out above, the Fiero was a mid-engined Chevette.

I'll stand by my post. :D

As a old Corvette owner of many models, I would find a mid engine car to be the next best evolution of the make. Its been in the plans for many years, so why not.

Nice...but still a !"/$%?&* GM....!

I just wish they would do something about those horrible interiors. Corvette is a very capable car, but when you get in, you are obviously sitting in a Chevy.

Now we need a mid engine c7 vette killer. OH, like the Cayman.

...Waiting for other shoe to drop.








Like that will ever happen

I always thought it would be fun to fabricate a mid-engined sports car with an SBC.

Looks like Chevy beet me to it...