Forget a mid-engine layout
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Heel & Toe
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Burning Brakes
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St. Jude Donor '08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14
I think one of the things that make it a true american sports car icon is it's humble beginnings and simplicity. Just a muscle car with a big V8 under the hood.
Burning Brakes
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Safety Car
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The Corvette was designed to be America's answer to European sports cars in a more accessible package. Now that so many European 2-seat sports cars are going with a MR layout, I don't think it was so far fetched.
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Just a muscle car with a big V8 under the hood sounds more like a Chevelle than a Corvette.
The Corvette was designed to be America's answer to European sports cars in a more accessible package. Now that so many European 2-seat sports cars are going with a MR layout, I don't think it was so far fetched.
The Corvette was designed to be America's answer to European sports cars in a more accessible package. Now that so many European 2-seat sports cars are going with a MR layout, I don't think it was so far fetched.
I lived in the muscle car era and no one ever called a Corvette a muscle car.
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Le Mans Master
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From: H-Town Texas
In terms of tooling, manufacturing, design, the mid engine is simply to expensive to make it a marketable car in terms of Chevrolet Corvette philosophy. If you guys want to know what the C7 is going to look like, stop photoshopping c6's and start photoshopping Solstice coupes and there you will find your next Corvette.
Team Owner
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"The current set-up with the engine up front makes it difficult to deactivate cylinders as it would require an additional clutch to deactivate the driveshaft between the engine and rear mounted transaxle.
SAY WHAT???
Melting Slicks
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In my mind that article lost ALL credibility w/this sentence:
"The current set-up with the engine up front makes it difficult to deactivate cylinders as it would require an additional clutch to deactivate the driveshaft between the engine and rear mounted transaxle.
SAY WHAT???
"The current set-up with the engine up front makes it difficult to deactivate cylinders as it would require an additional clutch to deactivate the driveshaft between the engine and rear mounted transaxle.
SAY WHAT???
I agree! WTF!!! Did the author think we're all stupid? Is active cyclinder management such a mystery that they think that they could publish this horse-doodoo and have us all follow along blindly? Whoever wrote this article needs to go back to engine-control school!
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Instructor
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I don't care of they mount the engine on the roof as long as it's relatively affordable and eats ferraris for breakfast... which the ZR1 definitely is (in comparison to the price of a ferrari) and does... every morning if it wants to. 
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Melting Slicks
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Speaking of eatting Ferrari's and Porsche's... Check out this link from Motor Trend. Great vid!
http://www.facebook.com/video/video....2270028&ref=nf
Sit back and enjoy!
Burning Brakes
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From: Newport Beach California
i just watched a video comparing the z06 vs. gt500kr.
the z06 wins in every way...price, standing 1/8, 1/4 and mile, around a car, on the skidpad, driving feel, everything
and then they brought out the zr1...oh boy hahahaha
