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01-30-2016, 09:47 AM | #1 | |
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Mid-Engined Corvette Program Reportedly Inching Towards Public Confirmation
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01-30-2016, 10:07 AM | #2 |
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This again
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01-30-2016, 11:35 AM | #3 |
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This time (well, the last couple years) actually seem believable for a change. Test mules, decent business case and Ford going to LeMans.. If Corvette can come out with a mid 200-300k "poor mans" exotic, they can probably do alright.
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01-30-2016, 12:16 PM | #4 |
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200-300 is a poor mans exotic? Maybe if they do a poor mans supercar, but that's high for an exotic.
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01-30-2016, 12:32 PM | #5 | |
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Regardless, if they can undercut the GT and offer something less racecar and more GT they might be onto something. |
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01-30-2016, 02:39 PM | #6 |
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Buddy, the corvette is supposed to be the affordable sub-$60k sportscar.
Putting the engine in the middle and charging over $100k makes it no longer a corvette. Put the engine in the middle and charge $60k base... still a corvette. |
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everyone's confused. people. it's just the new hyper-crossover. if they use the Corvette name or not isn't that big of a deal.
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01-30-2016, 03:07 PM | #8 | |
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Then the C6 ZR1 wasn't a Corvette? The C7 Z06 + Z07 pkg isn't a Corvette either? Both were / are over $100k. |
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01-30-2016, 04:08 PM | #9 |
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They need to break corvette off as its own separate brand and make an uber mid engine version, the current version, and a base model version, then release an SUV in the line up
You think I am kidding Nobody says Chevrolet Corvette It's just corvette or vette |
01-30-2016, 06:18 PM | #10 |
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01-30-2016, 07:17 PM | #11 | |
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Basically you would have: Corvette/ Corvette Z06 / Corvette ZR1 / Corvette Zora (has a nice ring to it, eh?) |
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01-30-2016, 07:19 PM | #12 | |
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Have you seen the reliability problems those two examples you cite have had? They can't even make it around willow springs and laguna seca. What was the magazine? Motortrend? Car of the year? Every other one of those on the road is in limp mode. |
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01-31-2016, 12:04 AM | #14 |
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Don't forget a RWD sedan.
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01-31-2016, 12:10 AM | #15 | |
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All the butthurt Corvette traditionalists should thank/blame Ford for this. |
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01-31-2016, 12:32 PM | #16 |
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Corvette: A small warship designed for convoy escort duty.
Yep, Corvette would be the perfect name for the D-Bag sports SUV category. |
01-31-2016, 12:33 PM | #17 |
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A mid-engine Vette has been talked about since the late 1960s. Nothing new to see here.
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01-31-2016, 03:26 PM | #18 |
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More than you think, maybe. Z06 with Z07 package sales account for 10.12% of all Corvette sales for MY2015. C6 ZR1s outsold Z06s three to one in MY10, accounting for 12.9% of all Corvette sales that year. More than one in ten...
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02-01-2016, 08:43 AM | #20 |
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While I think Corvette could easily stand on its own, I do not think chevy will ever let go. I mean without them, all they have rental cars and Camaros.
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02-01-2016, 05:13 PM | #21 | |
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Regarding the brand, you might be right. I don't think it would be bad to have a Corvette brand if they made a couple different models to go under it. On the flip side, the main purpose of having a halo car is to bring people to your brand; not to create another one. Even though the situations would be slightly different, it does make one wonder if GM observing the failure of Chrysler's separate SRT brand will factor into that decision...? |
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02-01-2016, 05:21 PM | #22 |
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This rumor pops up every few years, and I never believe it.
It's: Sports car / Exotic / Supercar / Hypercar / Something Arab Bunches of companies make sports cars. Companies like Ferrari and Lamborghini make exotics, but their top end models like the LaFerrari are supercars. Companies like Koenigsegg make hypercars. Then there's the Arabs. Spinning Corvette into it's own brand is Genius. But it's GM, so they won't do it. Last edited by KoalaSlim; 02-01-2016 at 05:29 PM. |
02-01-2016, 09:52 PM | #23 |
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02-06-2016, 02:26 PM | #24 |
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Ah, mid engine Corvette rumors. A 50 year tradition.
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Well, the vette' already is technically mid engined since the engine sits completely behind the front suspension
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