“To be truly world class, you have to be mid-engine.' Rumors have swirled for years that General Motors would finally acquiesce to industry pressure and transform its iconic sports car, the Chevrolet Corvette, into a mid-engine beast.
Rumors have swirled for years that General Motors would finally acquiesce to industry pressure and transform its iconic sports car, the Chevrolet Corvette, into a mid-engine beast.General Motors has allowed almost nothing about its next-generation Corvette -- referred to as the C8 -- to leak out. Corvette’s chief engineer, Tadge Juechter, was photographed in April driving a heavily-camouflaged C8 on the streets of New York.
“To be truly world class, you have to be mid-engine,” Jonny Lieberman, Motor Trend's senior features editor, told ABC News. He broke the story in 2014 that a mid-engine Corvette was in production. “I’d say 65% of Corvette buyers know about the C8,” Pineiro told ABC News, adding that even non-Corvette fans are walking into the dealership and asking to see the C8 in person.
He’s already taking deposits from customers even though he’s unsure if he'll get even a single C8 to sell.If this level of excitement holds, sales of the C8 could be a blockbuster for GM. Brauer said he had hoped GM would have done more to celebrate the end of the front-engine Corvette as a way of boosting sales based on nostalgia.According to Jonathan Klinger of Hagerty, the world’s largest collector car insurance and valuation company, the Corvette is the most collected vehicle in North America, followed by the Ford Mustang.
“At the time Chevrolet went through such trauma to get the Corvette going,” he told ABC News. “It was a failure in the marketplace.” “The average age of a Corvette buyer is pretty high. These guys won’t last forever,” he said. “Younger guys grew up with mid-engine cars and more likely want mid-engine sports cars.”
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