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Unexpected mid engine handling for 1st time ME owners

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Old 10-13-2017, 06:47 PM
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Corvettes re considered front mid engine vehicles while the c8 is supposedly a rear mid engine design.

Traditional examples of front engine (not a mid front engine) would be a challenger, camaro or mustang.

Rear engine would be a Porsche 911.

Ferrari 488 is a rear mid engine vehicle.

Hope this helps clarify descriptive terms.
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Old 10-14-2017, 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by MitchAlsup
There is/was an old saying about Porsche: once you dial the steering in, your foot cannot come up off the gas pedal--but this was before the Weissach suspension geometry.

But modern electronics will fundamentally alter that situation.
Yes, ME handling will be a non issue w traction control.

Once you turn that off w 500+hp it will get interesting, that's when you better know how to drive.
Old 10-14-2017, 09:29 PM
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The balance of any car, mid, front, or rear engine, can be tuned with well known technical adjustments to understeer or oversteer, trailing, neutral, or full throttle. Anyone who thinks that a design of a chassis can’t be tuned to handle correctly for a driver that knows what he wants or engineers with data downloads, really needs to start learning about what and how weight, suspension , tires, sway bar, dampers, actually do before making statements about something they don’t understand.



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