T-minus 7 days and counting... Verb better not screw this up!

nooshinjohn

Or I will have Tony’s Concrete service waiting to pour you a new driveway...

https://media.chevrolet.com/nextgenCorvette

Clipdat

As someone who has driven a few mid-engine cars, I love that Chevrolet decided to make the next Corvette mid-engine!

Viking64

The only available color will be "Hot Pink" and only Mary Kay Cosmetics independent beauty consultants will be allowed to purchase them.

Viking64

Here's a rendering in blue.

nooshinjohn

You saw the Mid Engine C8, sans camo, in Arlington? Are you sure it wasn’t a C7?

tonyb

Gorgeous....I dig it. Time to trade in the Jag, John.

txcoastal1

I'd actually wait till 2022 Gen3 version when all the kinks and customer feedback is in and adjustments are made. Yeah she's a looker.

jflail2

Holy smokes what a beautiful ride. My first thought was it's almost Ferrarish. Any idea what pricing will be?

mhardy6647

I am amused that two posts above say, in effect, "Chevy couldn't do anything better than copy Lambo or Ferrari for their new Corvette"

I don't think it looks like a Lamborghini at all, FWIW -- they're all pretty angular still (at least AFAIK)

As for me -- I still have no plans to pay more for a car than we paid for our first house ($40k). So far, so good. So ... maybe a used Corvette some day... although there's an old-ish Miata for sale down the road from us for $2800 that, at least, looks nice. I'd have made a serious offer for it, but it has an automatic transmission

In all seriousness, I am glad, and slightly amazed, that GM is finally going the true exoticar route with the venerable Corvette. 'bout time, ain't it? Dollar for dollar, the Corvette has long been one of the best values out there for a sports performance car, I would say. It does deserve to be midengined.

mhardy6647

txcoastal1 wrote: »

I'd actually wait till 2022 Gen3 version when all the kinks and customer feedback is in and adjustments are made. Yeah she's a looker.

Yup -- I will prognosticate cooling problems with the engine in the early production models

Alternatively, wait for 2026 and the AWD, four-motor electric 'vette.
(speaking of 'cooling problems...)

Milito

Much better looking than I thought it would be. If I was going to buy one, I would wait a year or two to get the first year problems fixed.

jflail2

mhardy6647 wrote: »

I am amused that two posts above say, in effect, "Chevy couldn't do anything better than copy Lambo or Ferrari for their new Corvette"

Errr, that's not what I said at all. It just reminded me of a Ferrari at first glance.

mhardy6647

mid-engined sports cars... bringing you 1964's technology today.

Viking64

mhardy6647 wrote: »

1964

mhardy6647

^^^ boy howdy, it really does.




Actually, I saw one of those Ferraris a coupla weeks ago on the local freeway and thought it was the new Corvette. No kidding. But it was red, and it did sport the prancing horse badge


I also get a sense of the current Camaro in the new Corvette (particularly the front end).

jflail2

Wow, a La Ferrari in the wild? Lucky man. I've only seen an Aventador so far here, but have only been here 6 months. I'm sure there are some other top tier rides in town, just haven't seen them yet. And yea, I can see that Camaro front end comparison.

mhardy6647

They're surprisingly common in northern New England -- but only in the warm weather

mhardy6647

I should be clear -- I didn't get a long enough look to be sure it's the same model, but it had headlights like that one and it was certainly every bit as swoopy as that one!

Viking64

mhardy6647 wrote: »

I should be clear -- I didn't get a long enough look to be sure it's the same model, but it had headlights like that one and it was certainly every bit as swoopy as that one!

Is it possible that it was a 458? Some of those can be had for under $200,000. A LaFerrari would set someone back upwards of 2 million.

nooshinjohn

488 is more likely...

mhardy6647

^^^ Totally possible.
I don't remember seeing the side air intakes.
Heck, $200k. If I went with the price of our second house I could buy one of those with plenty left over

nooshinjohn

DSkip wrote: »

Absolutely. It looked exactly like the rendering.

Were you on the grounds? I ask only because I cannot imagine one of these without camo being driven on the streets by anyone, especially in Arlington, TX, which has zero connection to actually producing these cars. Had it occurred, it would have made a huge ripple in the space-time continuum and the images would have gone supernova on the web.

pitdogg2

I will say this. Those mid-engine cars can really bang out a corner, but when the let go just try and grab onto something cause they're gone. Although NOTHING like these cars I had an Fiat X-19 in the 80's and loved banging corners and it let go. I seen road, cornfield, road, cornfield, road, cornfield, cornfield, cornfield.... Then I was walking to the farmers house to call a tow truck. How the ditch didn't flip me is unexplainable but it and I lived.

charley95

nooshinjohn wrote: »

488 is more likely...

Those are just a gorgeous car. Like I said earlier the C7 grabbed a lot of styling cues from the F12. I wish they would've been more creative on the C8, it just doesn't do it for me. Mid engine and the new tech in it though I love.

mhardy6647

could be -- I didn't see it for all that long of a time.
I first saw it in my driver's side door mirror -- but it didn't stay there for long.

txcoastal1

When it comes down to it, all these cars have similar body styles due to aerodynamics and sport look. How much can you really change to try to one up on the next guy?

You're either competing for $$, or speed

mhardy6647

txcoastal1 wrote: »

When it comes down to it, all these cars have similar body styles due to aerodynamics and sport look. How much can you really change to try to one up on the next guy?

You're either competing for $$, or speed

That is very true -- when the aerodynamics models got really systematized, all cars began to look pretty much the same (as a function of their class/price, that is)

Remember, though, the halcyon days of the early low drag coefficient Citroën Cx?






(yeah, an RHD Cx from some UK website)

audioluvr

jflail2 wrote: »

Saw one of those today. Guy backed it out of an unmarked tractor trailer. Took it for a spin and came back. I told him I'd give him $10 if he'd let me test drive it. No luck. They film a lot of car commercials up here because of the windy curvy roads. Lots of car clubs make the runs by my house. Those I like. It's the stupid bicyclists that I hate...

krazypolk

audioluvr wrote: »

jflail2 wrote: »

Saw one of those today. Guy backed it out of an unmarked tractor trailer. Took it for a spin and came back. I told him I'd give him $10 if he'd let me test drive it. No luck. They film a lot of car commercials up here because of the windy curvy roads. Lots of car clubs make the runs by my house. Those I like. It's the stupid bicyclists that I hate...

Well We can toss out that countdown clock. It is obsolete.

audioluvr

Not sure about the paint job though...

halo

mhardy6647 wrote: »

That is very true -- when the aerodynamics models got really systematized, all cars began to look pretty much the same (as a function of their class/price, that is)

Remember, though, the halcyon days of the early low drag coefficient Citroën Cx?

Mon uncle en France had one of those. He picked us up from the airport in it (this was in '86). Fast car and a very smooth ride.