Suddenly, a FWD BMW does not seem so bad...

Leonard Hofstadter

Only because of what Chevy plans for the next generation Corvette...

http://www.autocar.co.uk/News/NewsArticle/AllCars/256918/

A "muscle car" with a mid engined V6?

How about NO:mad:!

I know the times are changing, but an American muscle car without a big V8 at the front is just plain wrong!

Berty

How about stop making it out of tracing paper.

stealthyspeeder

Autocar.......

the daily star of of the motoring world.

put "supposedly" and "sources hint" in front of anything and they will put any aule tat up on their website.

Leonard Hofstadter

I'm all for the car chaning in some ways, I mean seriously it is time to get rid of leaf springs (yes, they're still using leaf springs in them) and they're still using pushrod engines in them:eek:, in their efforts to make it "greener" they could be using stop/start (though I think in the US such systems do SFA for their fuel tests) and brake energy regeration, but a V6 instead of a V8 is just a step too far for me....

unkel

captainspeed wrote: »

seriously it is time to get rid of leaf springs (yes, they're still using leaf springs in them) and they're still using pushrod engines in them:eek:

And Nascar still uses only carburettors

(some European supercars got fuel injection about 60 years ago, F1 got fuel injection about 50 years ago?)

Agree with you though. US muscle car must have V8 up front. In fact, most cars should have a V8 up front (my last 3 cars do, all German cars though )

firefly08

It's always baffled me why people insist on calling the Corvette a 'muscle car'. It's not, and never was. Muscle cars were traditionally large, fairly simple cars with oversized engines and not much else - Dodge Chargers, Ford Torinos etc. The Corvette was designed as a pure sports car from the beginning - compact, 2 seater convertible with sophisticated styling, to compete with Alfas, MGs etc. Totally different kettle of fish! I say rock on, I'd love to see a mid engined Corvette.

Matt Simis

firefly08 wrote: »

It's always baffled me why people insist on calling the Corvette a 'muscle car'. It's not, and never was. Muscle cars were traditionally large, fairly simple cars with oversized engines and not much else - Dodge Chargers, Ford Torinos etc. The Corvette was designed as a pure sports car from the beginning - compact, 2 seater convertible with sophisticated styling, to compete with Alfas, MGs etc. Totally different kettle of fish! I say rock on, I'd love to see a mid engined Corvette.

Damn it you beat me too it! Yeah, the Corvette is a reasonably expensive dedicated Sports car. the Chevy Muscle car is the Camaro. Which still has both V6 and V8 options.

firefly08

he Chevy Muscle car is the Camaro

...ish. Nowadays people call it a muscle car, along with the Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger, but in their original 60s incarnations, these types of car were known as "pony cars". Muscle cars were usually bigger, like the Charger etc.

pburns

I'm more a fan of smaller, lighter more efficient sports cars but I dunno what to think of this. If this is the type of car they want to build why use the Corvette name. It's a big risk.

The car being touted - a mid-engined 6 cylinder with a great interior is the exact opposite of what you would think a 'Vette should be. There's no continuity to this at all apart from the gimmick of the split rear window*.

* I once read the split window was dropped after only a couple of years because it hid motorcycle highway cops in the rear mirror:D

alias no.9

pburns wrote: »

I'm more a fan of smaller, lighter more efficient sports cars but I dunno what to think of this. If this is the type of car they want to build why use the Corvette name.

IIRC, all Corvettes have had fiberglass bodywork, I always assumed it was to save weight, if so then the vette is the perfect candidate.

Owen

Autocar are hilarious. A guy on the MINI2 forums a while back photoshopped a car and submitted it as a spy shot. You should have read the bullcrap they made up to fit with the photo.

johnos1984

IIRC the Corvette was in fact meant to become a V8 powered mid engined two seater during the sixties but the idea was canned in favour of the original layout. A wankel engine was also developed but the whole idea was dropped when it was near launch circa 1980

The plan was to make it compete better with European exotica but at a greatly reduced price and it was to be called the Aerovette