Because it would be an Aerovette:
Posted on 05/18/2018 4:02:17 PM PDT by BBell
Call us Captain Ahab, because the upcoming mid-engine Corvette is our great white whale. Each passing day sees us get closer to laying eyeballs on the finished beast, and these images mark some of our best views yet of what to expect from the C8-generation Vette.
Although the car remains cloaked in camouflage, a number of new details about the latest iteration of the American sports car can now be confirmed. Notably, the fast rear glass that marks today’s Corvette won’t be carried over to the eighth-generation model in the form of an engine cover. Instead, the two-door coupe appears to take a page from the likes of the McLaren 570S, offering a flat, vented panel between a pair of flying buttresses. What appears to be a camera mounted at the rear of the roof ought to help mitigate the C8’s limited rear visibility.
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Soooo, is this GM’s response to the “Voice of the Customer”? Will the “too cute to fail” Mary Barra ever admit that we don’t want no autonomous vehicles. Maybe the girl is finally gettin’ real.
Just let it actually have an exposed bumper or some horizontal detail to break up the giant lard ass that has plagued it since the early 2000s.
I’ll take #1 and #3
I will drive my 5 speed Mach 1 and my 4 speed Falcon until I can’t push in the clutch any more.
The fabled mid-engine Vette was a staple of the car magazines in the late 60s and throughout the 70s. When there wasn’t anything to report on new cars, one of the magazines would come up with an artist’s interpretation of what a mid-engine Vette would look like, and there would be ‘insider information’ that the new Vette was only a couple of years away.
Mid-engine Corvette has been under development for at least 10 years.
Supposedly, the front-engine design is at a performance limit. Engine needs to be farther back for best weight transfer under hard acceleration. (Seems like track car instead of road car).
There has been talk in the past that the mid-engine might use the name ‘Zora’.
Those retiring/mid-life crisis baby boomers need more trunk space.
Paddle shifting/dual clutch auto is better. Not as much fun, but better as in easier and safer to drive faster.
I believe that F1 experimented with true automatic transmissions. Only the very best drivers could match them with a manual. F1 uses paddles now.
Fortunately, here in wv, our speed limits are such that you can often be on the edge of traction (if you choose) and still be below the speed limit.>>> agreed nothing like downshifting instead of breaking for curves. i had a 80 mg i modified bored cylinders the works. fun car.
Because it would be an Aerovette:
I had subscriptions to numerous car magazines as a boy and really loved that one, disappointed that it was never built. Love the spline down the center of the windshield. That roofline did show up in later, lesser product but not quite so spectacular.
Well, I didn’t mean it in a bad way. I hope it’s more like the Ford GT!
My best friend (since we were five years old) started working for GM right out of high school; GMI then engineering. He is now a senior engineering manager.
Back when the Fiero was ending its run I asked him why GM didn't make that thing as nice from the beginning as they did at the end. GM cancelled the program just as that car became great.
He looked at me and rolled his eyes then said that the engineers wanted to make it great from the beginning but the MBAs that ran GM wanted just enough of a car to attract customers and then each year add a few goodies that would supposedly make them trade for a new one. Then, when it was almost what people really wanted, the MBAs wanted to end production and then promise something better that would never come.
I watched how GM did just that with many of their models. They thought people were still stupid enough to buy a new car every year or two to get the options they wanted and could have been delivered from the first model-year.
Both of my kids(son 26 daughter 23) and wife can drive a stick no problem. We go to the desert and dunes. They can all drive my 850hp dune buggy and their dirtbikes!
Sometimes I wish that my wife and kids would share my love and enthusiasm for driving a manual transmission.
But most of the time, I don't. :)
I owned 3 Panteras. They were the coolest POS on the road.
GM has admittedly modeled that car after the NSX for years.
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