mid engine corvette qtr panels leaked photo

sure!

 

What are you talking about? I just bought a mid-engine 911....at least I think it's mid-engine. The sales guy told it was

 

I predict Detroit 2019. Tough to bet against JM2 but......

 

You could be right. I’m just speculating

 

Ill go with that.

Fe car sales are in the toilet, the Zr1 is a last stopgap to keep the lines rolling a little longer, how many of those can they sell?. Vettes are in avis rental lots and there are yuge discounts atr dealers
With Fe car sales as they are, there is no point in GM waiting another year.
Plus a June unveiling means it can be a 2019 model year car.

Ill wait till the get it sorted and the bugs out and t the great motors in 21 or 22.

 

and with that said the "girls" would probably rather go to France instead of down to Georgia with their new Corvette...

 

On the GTLM racing version they moved the engine position several inches on the Porsche. Not sure if that is what he is referring to?

 

Funny how people miss this point. There's at least one person over on CF that gets this too - I think he's in the auto business as a platform manager, and he put together a business case that basically supports this (and my feeling).

FE sales are going down - fast. The last runs of a particular generation always do, and extensions of product (Z06, Grand Sport, ZR1) are designed to soften the decline curve, but they typically signal the end of the generation.

I don't know WHEN they will introduce it, but for sure it WILL replace the FE. There will be overlap, which is smart, but that's it - it's over once that happens.

 

ZERV interior still in design...we make portions of it!
No tooling as of yet, still in concept...just saying

 

So what will be worth more the last FE corvette or the first ME corvette. Somehow I see this as a package at BJ one day.

 

Then that supports my thoughts that we will not see it before 2019. No reason to rain on the ZR1 sales season coming up which it would if people saw it this month.

 

I was making a joke....IMSA is PRETTY liberal with what they let CERTAIN car makers get away with (Ford GT raced at least a YEAR before ANY production cars are made, Porsche makes a mid-engine 911 and is allowed to race it, even though there are NO mid-engine 911's offered for sale)

 

Exactly. There are too many OBVIOUS things going on to intro the mid-engine Corvette at any point in 2018....here are 2:
1. The first customer C7 ZR1's won't be delivered until March 2018.
2. Bowling Green Assembly is closed to public plant tours for ALL of 2018.

 

Neither. They're mass production cars. Anyone hoping for a financial windfall on a modern car is going to be disappointed. Now, if you've got 50 years.....I bet the C7 ZR1 AND the Viper ACR (among others) will bring pretty snappy cash....in 2068

 

First or Last > Neither?

The question was which Corvette will be worth more. You obviously have not seen Mr H. in action paying Ten times the list price for serial number 1 Corvettes.

 

FWIW
As everyone talks about Corvette being dead, there is no doubt the car is down from 2016 sales, BUT....the entire category is not exactly setting the woods on fire. And there's no doubt that any other maker would be happy to have Corvette numbers (U.S. sales 2017 verses 2016 from GoodCarBadCar.net):


Corvette: Calendar 2017: 25,079, Calendar 2016: 29,995 -16.1%
Porsche Boxster: Calendar 2017: 2,287, Calendar 2016: 2,670 -14.3%
Porsche Cayman: Calendar 2017: 2,800, Calendar 2016: 3,590 -22%
Porsche 911: Calendar 2017: 8,970, Calendar 2016: 8,901 +.8%
Jaguar F-Type: Calendar 2017: 4,108, Calendar 2016 4,069 +1%

 

Yeah, I meant the literally last FE and first ME. Not the MY. Sorry if any confusion.

 

Uh...I live in Charlotte....I'm pretty sure I'm aware of what Rick Hendrick does, Corvette wise (have you ever seen his collection? I have.). Rick bidding a million for VIN #1 doesn't set the mark for the tens of thousands of Corvettes produced after. And I answered....the C7 ZR1...in 50 years.

 

To expand on value:
I think the C7 ZR1 will be more valuable than the first year mid-engine years down the road because the C7 ZR1 will be unique.

 

Never saw the Rick Hendrick collection but I think he still has his first Corvette; a white 1976?

 

No one said it's dead - Chevy didn't invest the money into the plant and line if it thought it was dead.

However, compare Corvette production to the 911 - globally. The Porsche is flat to slight growth, about 33,000 units. Corvette dropping to 25,000 units, primarily the US.

If Chevy can sell more than 5,000 units in Europe, that's huge - they are selling less than 1,000 units per year now.

I believe the ME is being designed to help drive Euro sales, which combined with what should be strong US and Canada numbers, will push sales to 40,000 units per year.

 

Rendering from Hagerty - guys at CF are ripping it. I don't think it's bad - it's not radical, and retains the Corvette lineage. I hope it's more rounded though.

https://www.hagerty.com/articles-videos/articles/2018/01/12/mid-engine-corvette-coming?utm_content=sf83104468&utm_medium=spredfast&sf83104468=1

 

I think there's good and bad in the renderings. The first one presents a great side profile. Good proportions. I like this view.

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But, the 3/4 view is less than stellar. That intake is terrible, IMO. Way too big and doesn't flow with the rest of the design.

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The rear view is ok, but I'm having a hard time loving it. Something about the roofline is odd to me. Maybe the window is too rounded for the rest of the design?

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From what I see I have to admit that I like it so far. Wonder how the interior layout will look and what kind of storage will it have. I also read the article and it states that the base price will be $70k. If that holds true I hope they don't skimp on the inside.

 

They don't seem to care about export sales. Canadian dealers are always shorted on allocations. One small example; the local dealer sold six ZR1 Corvettes before the car was seen but got only a single allocation.