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Check out this week's Autoweek magazine. It contains info on current GM thinking on the next C7 and C8. In brief, the C7 will be a mild styling re-do of the C6. The C8 (for 2016) is supposed to be "world class" mid-engined using a twin turbo V6! Price is expected to be around $60K -- but I'll bet by 2016 it'll be closer to 100. Though they say it'll have the HP, gone will the the V-8 rumble we love today. Check it out. :flag:

We've been hearing this mid engine talk for ever!

Mid Engine !! Zoras' dream finally coming true.

Bless the evolution of the vettes but my c5 is a lifer:cheers:

I hope to buy a C7, :thumbs:
I hope to drive a C8, :cheers:
I hope I live long enough to see a C9... :D

Lots of things can change with Government Motors between now and when either the C7 or C8 would come out. Let's just hope they continue to make the Corvette.

Well we will see!! I remember reading about,,complete with sketches and concept pictures of mid engine corvettes,,,,,back in 1970!!:thumbs::thumbs::cheers:

Useless without pics

I would not buy it if its a V6. doesn't matter how fast it goes, how much power it makes etc. V8 or nothing, I'll go elsewhere and mourn the death of the Corvette.

Relax, it would never happen...GM marketing team aren't that stupid!

Heaven forbid they do toss a V6 in it... someone'll come along and shoehorn in an LS block. :rofl:

What I don't understand is how a twin turbo V6 is going to afford such better gas mileage than the current C5 or C6. The C5 and C6 can already achieve in the upper 20's mpg with the existing V8. It seems a bit silly to to produce a car with a significantly more complicated engine that gets only negligibly better gas mileage. If they really want to progress, they might consider an electric motor. That would seem to be a much bigger step forward.

Shame on you!

I agree.

:rofl:

WTF! Worst post of the decade!

+1

Considering the battery in a corvette only lasts about 3 weeks while sitting, I'd hate to see the range in an electric vette. :jester

So the C7 is supposedly coming out next year, then the C8 in 2016, only a 5 year generation?

:iagree:

If GM puts a 6 cylinder back in the Vette it will kill it almost like it originially did. I dont care if it has forced induction on it or not.

When did GM ever put a 6 in a Vette?

'53-'55 :thumbs:

'55 was the first year a V8 was an option.

I don't know if it will kill it. Let's say they match the LS3s output or even bump it a little, alot of people will still buy it.