Former Corvette Engineers Say Mid-Engined C8 Is “Once-In-A-Lifetime” Opportunity
10-12-2018, 05:33 PM
#1
Instructor
Thread Starter
Former Corvette Engineers Say Mid-Engined C8 Is “Once-In-A-Lifetime” Opportunity
10-12-2018, 05:38 PM
#2
I think I would be in at $70k. I will probably go for something near a stripper the second or third year.
10-12-2018, 06:44 PM
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Melting Slicks
Mmm. The former engineers do have a basis from which to speak with authority. The only people better informed are the current GM people who aren't giving ANY clues now so, I'd lean on these guys as being more probable...
10-12-2018, 07:04 PM
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Larger Version of NSX
Side view of NSX almost looks like a miniature version of the 18 Corvette. Hope they make the Corvette more exotic in appearance but not to the extreme as the Ferrari Aperta. To me the NSX looks somewhat boring because it is to small.
10-12-2018, 07:09 PM
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Drifting
Hasn’t this been rehashed over and over again in 2-3 other threads? If these three are not current GM employees and not actually working on the C8 program, then they are just guessing like the rest of us are. Even with their backgrounds, the current GM staff isn’t doing to reveal anything to them other then vague details, if that. So take anything they say with a grain of salt. It’s just their “opinions” and not reality.
Last edited by dreamr616; 10-12-2018 at 07:11 PM.
10-12-2018, 08:23 PM
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10-12-2018, 10:02 PM
#8
I think the C8 will need to be starting a bit more than the c7 base to be accepted. By going to the mid-engine chevy is going deeper into the performance world. The minute the vette DCT gearbox starts having failures the racers will drop the C8 like a hot rock. There are few C7 racecars because they must have the AFM gutted and valve train reworked for the track. There are zero C7 A8 gearboxes racing despite their fast shift times because the don't hold up and the giant threads on CF about A8 failures. Racers don't want to go there. Anyone wonder why the bullet-proof 2014 A6 C7's are holding value so well against A8 cars? The Ford/GM 10 speed is doing quite well and shifts faster than the porsche PDK with GM automatic transmission reliability. That's what should go in the C8. It would keep price down, performance = DCT, and automatic transmission reliability and easy service we all love and expect. Can you imagine with the porsche PDK your regular fluid change needs the computer to reflash the DCT before it works right! WE don't want that! Racer's who change fluids excessively won't tolerate that. Then if the new chassis platform has more than the normal 1st year bunch of growing pains and recalls no one is going to buy it. C8 buyers are not Ferrari buyers accepting of big bills and endless failures.
10-13-2018, 09:23 PM
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Race Director
Porsches pdk is bulletproof, i expect nothing less from GMs choice of dct s for the c8.
five grand more than todays model makes the most sense.
five grand more than todays model makes the most sense.