If the ME car debuts at Detroit in 2019, and production starts a few months after that, being a MY 2020 is far more likely....unless you have other info that production will start sooner?

 

True, I should have said CY2019, MY2020.

 

Tadge is actually quoted as saying that a mid-engine Corvette could be built with an MSRP of $5000 more than the C7. From a Road & Track interview with Bob Lutz talking about a mid-engine Corvette:

 

We all know that's a "hypothetical" comment, and has no bearing on the current developed car seen in spy shots.

Let's be real now.

 

Ok, your informed opinion is as good as mine

While I don't work in the industry, engineering is engineering, and I have a hard time believing GM would be testing a car with finished body panels and finished wheels without brakes that are very, very close to the final iteration. I know that individual parts are tested initially at a component level but at the end of the day the engineers need to put a lot of miles on testing how the suspension, brakes, and tires all interact and behave as a system. The final brakes would need to be tested on the track, on the road, and in all different environments to make sure that they not only function properly for braking but also for the stability management of the car, not to mention the durability testing (but that to an extent can be simulated in the lab). I think we're pretty much saying the same thing, and while I hope I'm wrong (it would be great to have a HiPo mid-engine introduced from the start) I believe in 11 months we'll be looking at a "base" model being released from the General. Until then though, we'll just have to wait to know for sure.

 

Well that is the way it works.

We would have part level revision sheets for every test car. When you were doing your testing you made sure you parts were current rev and off you went.

We'd schedule cars for updates to match specific testing and that was usually the only reason they were updated unless it was a specific and serious safety issue to operate the car.

That is how it works.

 

I say it's time for a poll: ME positioned below, at par, or above current FE?

I vote for below reaching for at par. The same way Caymans do for 911s...

 

Wait...are you saying Tadge has given out misleading information?

 

Each Porsche has a sequential in house number. The first 911 was actually a 901. Peugoet objected to Porsche using 901 as a model designation. 911 stuck, just like the 396ci Chevy while it was actually 402 ci, even though subsequent 911s had other designations.
The 'C' for model Corvette designations, was coined by a scribe at Motor Trend and has stuck. Each new model Corvette will be C and generation, and the ME C8 will be no different. Watch for a very expensive space age Cadillac on this platform which won't have a Corvette designation.

 

The Chevrolet 396 and 402 cubic inch engines are not the same.

The 396 had a 4.094" bore and a 3.76" stroke.

The 402 had a 4.125" bore and a 3.76" stroke.

The new 1965 396 I purchased in 1965 had a 4.094" bore with a 3.76" stoke.

The 402 did not come along until 1970, with it's larger .031" bore.

I dare you to fit a 402 piston into a stock bore 396 block.

 

They still called it a 396, Jees.

 

Yes, they did call the SS396 with a 402 a SS396, but you said they were the same engine, which they weren't. On the smaller cars, like the Nova, GM marketed the 402 as a 396, while on the full size cars, they marketed the 402 as a 402, but that was not from 1965 through 1970, when the 396 was in production.

 

Hey moderator. How do I respond to this type of nonsense politely?

 

Posting facts is not nonsense, Mr Hall Monitor.

I posted facts. A 4.094" bore is not a 4.125" bore, and 6 cubic inches is not nonsense.

 

... somebody just got taken to school

 

That's assuming the front engine car goes away. If the front engine car lives on, then they need to call the mid engine car something else.

 

Renders getting pretty close guys.......

 

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The bottom row, second from the left photo shows us the best view of how the headlamp looks on the car. That same view also shows us the front trunk(in a light tan color), I believe, with it's weather stripping. The bottom row far right view shows us more details of the front trunk.

Based on the location of the front trunk(in the nose in front of the front axle) I doubt that the car will have a heat extractor opening in the hood.

Also shows a radiator/heat exchanger under the headlamp and appears to line up with the front fascia openings we saw in the paint booth photos.

 

I think these CAD images match the fender pictures.