Front engine future
Melting Slicks
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From: Bridgewater NJ
It's wonderful (not) to be able to read these same exact comments for the one thousandth time about wishing for a front-engine C8.
Half the people here seem to be unaware of how to post on forums. Hint: if there is already a thread containing the sentiments you are about the make, then add them to the existing thread rather than annoying everyone by re-posting the whole thing again and again and again.
Oh, and GM doesn't care if you personally won't buy a mid-engine C8, because they will be too busy selling them like hotcakes to everyone else. So just sit and stew, I guess.
Half the people here seem to be unaware of how to post on forums. Hint: if there is already a thread containing the sentiments you are about the make, then add them to the existing thread rather than annoying everyone by re-posting the whole thing again and again and again.
Oh, and GM doesn't care if you personally won't buy a mid-engine C8, because they will be too busy selling them like hotcakes to everyone else. So just sit and stew, I guess.
Melting Slicks
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From: North Texas
A small SUV (I think it was a Pilot) with a couple plus two kids picked out a 100 inch 4k TV... on a rainy day. Good luck on that, it wouldn't fit in there with zero passengers. Someone else was there with a Colorado and bought a huge sectional sofa. When they left they made the moving scene from Beverly Hillbillies (the huge mound of crap with Granny sitting on top) look minor.
Burning Brakes
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The C8 mid engine will be a much better sports car than the C7.
The C7 will always be a much better GT than any mid engine sports car.
For all around driving fun I find my 458 to be much more fun to drive than my Callaway SC757.
If I am going on a road trip no questions the Callaway is the better car for a road trip.
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Burning Brakes
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But really, this topic is nonsensical at this point. Why does this keep popping back up in the forums?
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Like all the great luggage capacity of the C1, C2, C3 generations boy racers, LO?. I might fit two small carry-ons in my C2, if that much. My C6 is a pickup in comparison, but is much let sporty, and much more of an old man's cruiser, and I'm an old man. I'll take a C8 with 5-7 ft3 of storage space and be happy. I hope the Corvette goes back to being more of a sports car and less of an old man's cruiser.
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From: Racine WI
No one should be worried about a lack of luggage space. I can easily fit 3 sets of collapsible golf bags in the Fiero GT trunk which is a foot shorter than a Vette and not as wide. There is a mini spare tire taking up most of the space in the Fiero front trunk. Hopefully, GM wont have leaky Corvette trunks like some Fiero's had issues with.
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Instructor
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I don’t care about luggage capacity. And I want my car to be a ME
Melting Slicks
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I was actually being serious. Granted, I'm one of the "HD has trucks you can rent" guys, but at the same time I've had golf clubs and a toilet in my car at the same time!
Yeah, that was actually the joke comment of mine, I don't think theres gonna be useable storage there!
Yeah, that was actually the joke comment of mine, I don't think theres gonna be useable storage there!
Racer
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The front engine future - is in a sport SUV. GM isn't even in the segment. Why? The Cayenne, the Q8, all the way up to the Urus - they are selling strong. And GM is no where to be found in that segment. You can't enter that segment with a hot rod Tahoe or Traverse, you need a purpose built sport SUV - GM needs that.
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As soon as the first mid-engine Corvette comes off the line at Bowling Green, the only future the front-engine Corvette has is as a used car.