AutoExtremist: Mid-Engined Corvette a Reality?

[FBODYRULES]

I thought the corvette proved that a car doesn't have to be mid-engine to be an amazing handling car and can easily take on mid-engined cars.

Originally Posted by Edaw 0

psst, you forgot the Corvair.

but a new Fiero would be cool.

The corvair had the engine in the back, it wasnt mid-engine.
but as in the GMi corvair contest you might remember, a mid engine corvair would be cool.

[PAULSTS1]

Originally Posted by SRSS

i have to disagree about the fiero being poorly designed and it having poor gas mileage and handling! it had a 5 star crash rating got 40mpg and has handling equal too or better than a modern super car, and because of this the car has a vary large world wide cult like following and a huge after market! and during the fiero's development many different variants were made, like 4 seat mid engine fieros, convertibles, ect.. and it was only because of declining corvette sales that the fiero was canceled

heres a link to a site that shows what was in store for us in 89

http://www.heartlandfieros.com/proposed89fiero.htm

SRSS:

This is one of the reasons I joined this group many years ago, to exchange my views and to be educated by others that have information not readily available to me.

My reasoning for questioning the Fiero was because I was helping my baby sister to get one about 1986. However the handling was so strange she ended up with a Honda CRX coupe.

The article you attached did explain where in my evaluation of where Mid-Engine technology could have gone. With the addition of the production changes indicated in the article, GM could have come up with some dynamite cars in the early 1990's and by now maybe something fantastic.

It does go back to my statement: "GM does start things, however they can't seem to finish them."

Thanks for the enlightenment!

[ogg vorbis]

if gm can drop a transverse engine/tranny on a revised rear subframe and call it a mid engined car (i'm just speculating on the possible architecture) why can't they do that with a kappa, and call it a fiero? certainly 280 hp in a small mid-engined car does well - look at the boxter/cayman. for that matter, a mid-engined corvette may not even have to be a 600 hp supercar...why not something nimble and fun, with good power?