This has been my concern. If the mid-engine car is sold as a Cadillac, then there is not much of a problem with its being a better car than the front engined Corvette. It's a Cadillac. It's supposed to be better. By adding a mid-engine model to Corvette's lineup, Chevrolet instantly destroys the bragging rights of the owners of its bread and butter. Not only does the Stingray become a red-headed stepchild but even the full-zoot Z06 with the Z07 package also becomes yet another lesser Corvette.
Power is not really the problem with the Corvette, it's getting the power down smoothly that can bite drivers. Randy Pobst complained about not being able to use all the power in the Z06 like he wanted.
While Corvette Forum has a lot of good information inside of it, it seems like the articles posted to the home page are little more than click bait. The image has been circulating the internet for a while too. I don't have a lot of faith that anything posted there is more than a re drudging up of internet rumors circulating for the last few months. That said, there have been a lot of rumors circulating, so maybe there is something to them this time...
It will be interesting to see how they separate that from the "normal" existing Corvette.
alignment and tire pressures seem to have a lot to do with it, as well as the surface conditions. Some of the times Randy drives it, he praises it, once even claiming it could use another 100 HP. Next time he drove it it was unruly. I trust Randy to be consistent, so something has been up with some of those test cars.
This will have to be something other than a Corvette, if only due to the price. The front engine, rear wheel drive is fairly affordable now. Something like this would be considerably more expensive, pricing most Corvette buyers out of the market.
I like it. I just see a $150k+ "exotic" being a hard sell at a Chevy dealer - right next to the $15k Spark and all the $10k used cars. It needs to be a Cadillac.
I wonder. These tales have been floating around for so long it's almost an Urban Legend. On the face, it sounds to me that it might be best a Cadillac. I'm thinking the Corvette Faithful like their Front-Engine, Rear Drive lay out and may not take too kindly to losing it.
You guys remember that there was another instrument cluster leaked for supposedly the C7 that had a boost gauge? One cluster appeared on the Z06 the other is still MIA. BUT both had roots logo's on them.
Just make the mid-engined Corvette TTV6 and AV6 only. The shorter engine is better for packaging a V6 then clutch/converter gearbox then diff. Rather than use a transaxle.
Keeping all the mass between the front and rear wheels helps with accelerative traction as well as limiting polar momentum for sharper handling.
With modern turbo and V6 engine tech you can make any horsepower you want. Just look at the Jag XJ220 from a quarter century ago....
Just make the mid-engined Corvette TTV6 and AV6 only. The shorter engine is better for packaging a V6 then clutch/converter gearbox then diff. Rather than use a transaxle.
Right, if GM is going to spend a whole butt load of cash on a new, mid-engined sports car, it has to be much more than another version of the Vette. That market is covered very well with the Vette. This should be a whole new vehicle, and Caddy has the potential to charge more money for it.
I never quite understand why there are those who always want to take performance product away from Chevrolet. Chevrolet has by far the most connection to racing, at both the professional and overwhelmingly at the amatuer level. Chevrolet dealers have been selling premium price vehicles for a long time... ZR1 Corvettes, the current Z06, Suburbans, and more. What about Cadillac's sales history makes it seem like they would do a better job? The XLR? The Allante? I agree that if the main focus is on luxury Cadillac makes more sense, but if it is on performance, it should be a Corvette, which has been America's sportscar for over 60 years. If they build an all wheel drive mid-engine monster it will fail as a Caddy.
700 hp... That would be amazing for sure, I just hope I could afford such beast.
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