The yellow one was done from the actual camouflaged car spotted on the track, so it's going to be pretty close

Haha

I don't like these mid engine corvette pictures

I've been following the development pretty closely. They're past the stage of using fake body panels to throw off photographers

they make me think of audi r8s

Yeah, I'm not a mid-engine corvette fan TBH

Well where are all the fake body panel spy shots? And how do you know that info?

I actually like the corvette, I like the brutal FR car with a nice long nose that is comparatively cheap for the performance, I feel like that's gonna change

They came out like 6 months ago?

Come on, catch up

I mean the press actually don't know that, unless you're actually on the project you don't either.

Well no, of course not, but there's a method to the secrecy they usually follow

Catch up on what?

I don't know of anything I've missed here.

mid engine corvette news

6 months ago? I mean there has been production mid-engined Corvette news since I was reading car and driver in the early 90s.

I don't think I missed much.

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There have been "C8" spy shots for literally years.

Nobody wants kate spy shots, Matt

take that elsewhere

There's already an existing mid-engined Corvette Daytona Prototype that has used both C6 and C7 based bodywork through its racing career.

People basing their idea of the production model around something that's definitely the GTE Pro car will end up being disappointed when they see the actual production model.

Feel free to catch me up on whatever I've missed here though.

Besides the Ford GT which was purpose built as a race car from the start, look at anything in GTE, they all have different and significantly wider bodywork than the road car equivalent.

I think they just want to make a poor mans supercar

If someone made some renderings after seeing this for example http://www.dailysportscar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Aston-Martin-Vantage-GTE-2018.jpg and said "this is what the new Vantage will look like"

People would sure be disappointed when they saw the new Vantage.

True, very true

I think the production mid-engined car will be way less exaggerated as far as the crazy wide rear fenders and massive intakes.

Yeah, for sure it will be some sort of poor man's, but not especially poor man's mid-engined supercar.

I feel like it's a bit of the NSX and Supra syndrome though.

Well, you know what I mean. The Corvette is the "poor mans Ferrari"

Something that has been rumored and promised for so long that expectations are incredibly high and almost anything will be a let down.

I know what you mean in theory, but in practice it would throw it into the worst selling price bracket that exists for performance cars.

What if they got in under 100k?

The no-man's land between 911 level pricing and Ferrari 488/Mclaren models where cars like the R8 and new NSX life is absolutely the worst place to position a car. It's above the point where a person who actually cares about value will consider them, and below the point of people who will actually choose a car because it's more expensive and exclusive.

Well if they get it under 100k it will be 55k cheaper than the current ZR1.

that wont happen

they will not undermine their own brand

If they did they couldn't even market it as the ultimate Corvette in any buyer's mind because it would be perceived as "less" than models they have already positioned at a much higher price.