Beyond The Valley Of The Revenge Of The Son Of The Mid-Engine Corvette Rumors
Apparently possessing the institutional memory of sperm, the auto media is once again trotting out the 50-year-old rumor that will never die: OMG, the new Corvette is going to be mid-engined! Or, as we are so fond of saying around here, not. The madness started earlier this week, when GM North America boss Mark Reuss blew his dog whistle by hinting that the C7 Corvette would be “completely different.” The media needed no further encouragement to trot out the mid-engine rumor once again. As Paul Niedermeyer has pointed out, the mid-engined ‘vette speculation has been an industry institution since Zora Arkus Duntov posed proudly with his CERV I concept in 1959. Besides, Corvette engineers have been emphasizing the C7’s evolutionary nature for some time. Reuss’s hints could be about something as mundane and pre-signaled as a split rear window, or as out-there as Two-Mode hybrid option. Hoping for more is, I fear, would amount to a failure to learn the lessons of history.
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But. . .but . . .it already is mid-engined. . .
Don't forget the huge jump in print magazine sales every time this rumor starts up. Every commercial interest wins from spreading this rumor... except consumers, and TTAC. See what the truth gets you, TTAC?
So what you're saying is...the C7 will be REAR-engine?! They'll never see it coming!
Yawn. It's a vette, who cares? They haven't been interesting in decades and it seems the only people who buy vettes are people who already have vettes. Its sort of the automotive Hummel figurine.