04-06-2018, 05:38 PM
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Drives: 20 1LE 2SS M6 Rally Green
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Franklin WI
Posts: 6,634
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Originally Posted by Bhobbs
Tadge said a mid engine car would only be $5k more than a front engine car.
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15 years ago.
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Making the case for the mid-engine Corvette
Price it at around $120K, and then suck the doors off everybody.
BY Bob Lutz JAN 15, 2015
I first saw rough plans for a mid-engine Corvette around 2003. That's when we were starting to think seriously about a replacement for the C6. GM's head of engineering, Jim Queen, came to see me and said,
"The next one's got to be mid-engine."
Tadge Juechter had a PowerPoint presentation demonstrating, very credibly, that the C6 ZR1 was at the limit of usable rear-wheel-drive performance. The problem was really the front-mid-engine layout—we couldn't get the engine low enough and far back enough for proper weight transfer to the rear wheels under acceleration.
I didn't want to move out of our price class, but Tadge explained that while the transmission would cost more, the list price would increase by no more than $5000. Imagine an American-built car with the proportions of a Lamborghini at that price point …that's pretty appealing.
https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-car...gine-corvette/
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