mid engine corvette qtr panels leaked photo

Looks interesting, hard to say from photos where it looks to be on the bit big and bulky side. Personaly I like the transformers/terminator look in the creases.
Still hope the hi po versions are all flared out the the C8R, why hold back.
Lets see what the quick version weigh when they come out.

 

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if thats the actual car its flipping stunning.
Serious want.
But it looks very different t the spy photos even the C8R so I doubt it.

 

Mmmmm... seems nothing here matches. Unless the existing scoops in the camo car are phony this can't be it.

I prefer this than what I see in the camo. IMO, this car is going to look like a Ferrari 360 with more aggressive sharp creases and more black grills everywhere.

 

Yeah, I'm guessing that is definitely not it...it would be a home run if it was, though.

 

It’s not it - that’s a concept from a different (boutique) manufacturer.

 

Figures

 

And more bulbous, like a 12/10 scale 360

 

Call me crazy but this looks better.
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Yeah, sounds like a regualr C7 vette.
I think what were looking at is basicaly an evolved vette like the C5/6/7-8, just with the engine in the middle.

 

It's kind of hard to say it's just an evolved car when its literally completely new from the ground up. At best, it shares a similar engine configuration, but that's it.

 

Seriously?
You win the most inane comment of the day award for that one.

 

So you agree, a corvette is C5-C7 is unique unto itself with its own attributes and drawbacks, and a mid engined one may not be too different to a front engined one in may ways. ie its not exotic mid engined car, more like the new NSX then.

 

All new car mostly yes, similar conceptualization, or same lineage, not completly new ground just because the motor now happens to be in the middle..

Corvettes have had fairly consistent progression with some leaps, and even then those leaps follow a lineage. C2-C3 were evolutions. C4 was a bit of a leap. an all new car, but to drive and experience still very much a "corvette", I owned C3 and C4, the fastest I have driven a car on road was a timed 183 in C4 . The C5-C7 was a new platform that just evolved and improved with each iteration , spent a lot of time in C6 and going from a C3 to a C6 you knew you were in vette.. Point is if you drove a C2 and a C7 while there is 50 years of evolution its still feels of the same lineage, same as I suppose could be said of a 911, or Lambos from Miura though Aventador..

Therefore, and I am specualting, the ME vette despite is change of engine location is not going to feel hugely different from a C7, or milled from granite all of a piece like Me a Euro sportscar, its going to feel like, well a corvette, just new and improved, more a moderate leap evolution than wholesale change which a Me might imply. Thats not a judgement, although maybe it is a tempering of expectations. That might be a relistic specualtion if the ME is expected to eventualy take over entire from the Fe one.

If the Me car and Fe were designed as a two car line, then they may have had more bandwidth to go in two different directions, and maybe thats what we'll see.

What I see from the pics so far is a relatively large or bulbous car. In any event its all specualtion at this point.

The C8R looks fantastic to my eyes, make mine 3000lbs with that 650hp Quad cam motor we've been reading about.

 

I don't KNOW what the C8 is going to be (nor do you). I don't know specs...hell, I don't know what the thing even looks like.
And...what is "exotic"? Is a Ford GT "exotic"? How about a McLaren? I assume ALL Italians are "exotic"....

 

The more I see the more I'm bored....

It's really too bad. GM could have really broke the mold. Instead they followed the old one.

If a 2014 Corvette C7 mated with a 1999 Ferrari 360 modena, you get a Zora.

 

There are a few elements that just don't seem to fit or flow well. Some of that may be the camo hiding details. So as always, I'll withhold final judgment until I see one on the road, but it doesn't look "exciting."

 

Remember GM has screwed up a Mid engine car before making a "Ferrari beater"...

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I am trying to remain hopeful.

 

I think the Fiero is a nice design.

But as I’ve been saying, this car is a $60k car - they weren’t going to do anything too radical IMHO.

I will say it’s generic and boring. They messed up, it’s too square and they could have followed more McLaren’s lead.

 

With all due respect, the Fiero was NEVER intended to be a Ferrari 'beater'. It was a 4cyl economy car that was intended to be a fun to drive 2 seater. No one ever tried to pass a Fiero off as a Ferrari. Not even the 6 cal version.

 

With all due respect, that’s how it was marketed

And the 6 banger version was supposed to be “the new Ferrari Dino”

But my point here is that GM tackled this idea before and screwed it up bean counting and using cheap left overs as you yourself have stated.

 

Yah after the 720s going back to 1999 for design inspiration might was well be the Stone Age.

Instead of a new Corvette it’s coming out like a Ferrari wannabe.