FLS2K

Red67John

Well, rumor or not, that could explain the Blackwing production to Bowling Green.

Zaro Tundov

4.6 L with a FPC? Displacement is too high so it would vibrate too much. A hot v is also bogus, as confirmed by CAD drawings. Side mount turbos are only a packaging issue in front engine vehicles. In a ME sports car it’s better to keep the CG lower with side mounted turbos.

JoesC5

It's not practical enlarging the Cadillac Hot V engine to 4.6L, so the article is fake news.

WICKEDFRC

Source?

FLS2K

MT = MotorTrend

Tom73

Why would you want a hot-v set up in a mid engine car? With ME you have the full width of the car to work with so no problem in putting turbos outboard of the engine. Hot-v is designed for cramped spaces.

WICKEDFRC

Thanks. Just thought a post with information like that would have come with a link.



.....and.....I didn't know what MT stood for.

FLS2K

all good
I just screen captured it from my digital edition. They may have it somewhere on their website.

Steve Garrett

Hmm, interesting....

PCMIII

Well, Well, Well

The FE lives on with its manual trans and 500 hp small block at under $50k.

The ME moves up the price range to compete directly with everything Porsche sells.

Makes sense and always did.

jvp

Just bear in mind that Motor Trend is probably using Corvette Forum as its source. So there's a feedback loop going on here.

In other words: don't put too much weight in their rumors. They're about as "inside" as... uh... a kid sitting on the outside of the fence at Milford.

Shaka

Cows climb trees.

FrankLP

Unless MT cites specific sources, it's just more speculation... all of which has been expressed before.

I'm looking forward to official news from GM.

pietro c7

Don’t forget the 10 speed automatic transmission in this magical mystery FE almost C8....it won’t fit...but no worries they’ll mount it à la side pipe ,drivers side of course.
Let’s not forget the cross flag logo of this FE...
half C7logo and half new C8 logo.

PCMIII

You are wrong and you have been wrong all along. The idea that Corvette would abandon the FE which has been successful for decades is just absurd.
GM is not about to roll the dice solely on an unproven design that has never before been part of Corvette for reasons that should be obvious.
Mary Barra is not a fool.

jimmyb

Here's Motor Trend's "render" of the C7 in September 2012 (4 months before it was shown at Detroit!!!!)




After this...I took EVERYTHING MT says with a quarry size grain of salt....especially when Jalopnik got it mostly right almost a YEAR earlier.

jimmyb

Shaka, come on man. Cows DON'T climb trees...what a dope.
Monkeys, however, do fly out of their butts.
Keep up, dude.

AORoads

motor trend....not a good source. not even as a magazine. just keep a list of the points in that one paragraph and see how "close" they got. kind of a run-on paragraph, too.

nyca

Make the C7 into the 718? The only problem with that is - Porsche doesn't sell many 718s. Recast the C7 into an sport SUV, like the Urus, Cayenne, etc. That's the hot sales segment, and perfect for a front engine setup. GM could do very well in that segment, very well. As either a Caddy or a "Corvette SUV".