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Originally Posted by AZCamaroFan
my question is the engines. if they're the same horsepower i don't get the point of both existing. If they're higher output then i do, but i mean the Stingray already has up to 700HP. Usually in sports car lines, Porsche, Ferrari, etc. each model as you go up the price range has it's own engine variants.
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Rumours are always a telephone game. People often assume the juiciest take of what they heard, and then pass
that on instead of what was actually meant.
If there is any truth to the engine claim I'd say its partial at best. Meaning, I do not expect that the mid engined car will get exactly 3 engines, the same three that are in the C7. I could see 2 engines, a 'base' model with the LT4 (or LT1 or even the LT5) and a 'halo' with ... something else. So, in a very literal sense it would share 'engines' with the C7 -as they would presumably assemble more than 1 car with that shared engine. That sounds way more plausible than either exclusively borrowing from its sibling
or being 100% completely unique.
And I wouldn't use Ferrari as much of a guide for Corvette. GM has much more interest in using the Corvette to embarrass Ferrari at a substantially lower price than in cloning their business model. Creating unique engines just to have unique engines is expensive. And if they're not better than what already exists, its rather pointless too. The people that would scoff at sharing engines with 'lesser' cars are the same ones that would scoff at buying a Corvette in the first place, so they're unlikely to lose too many sales.