"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
08/16/2014 at 12:00 • Filed to: corvette
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
08/16/2014 at 12:00 • Filed to: corvette | 2
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There is a long history of mid-engine Vette' ness. I think they will constantly try to gauge response to such prototype show-things until we accept it. This example was a serious attempt with real 1972 development money. Mid-engine, four-rotors, 420hp of wankel power...in theory.
I loved this car. the shapes were right. the dimensions were spot on.
The rear end was......fugly.
Yeah. DAT behind...but it wasn't too terrible. Not like a bag of wet laundry looking behind.
Oherwise they got it right. If they stuck with a nice V8, even aluminum-especially aluminum, they would have had a great halo car but would have to name it something else. And then they would have had to kill it. Because Corvette = top so anything better gets killed. Fiero quad-4 for example...
This car looked good. I liked it. I'm sure if they raced it it would have done wonderful things, but the seventies demanded a front engine roadster type of car and not one of those foreigny weird engine placement things.
StingrayJake
> Grindintosecond
08/16/2014 at 13:10 |
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Duntov was ahead of his time... and was stuck with GM's unadventurous spirit.
Disclaimer: I understand that the unicorn MR Vette doesn't make good business sense and goes against the Corvette's long-standing value principal (minus the $100,000+ ZR1). Doesn't mean I don't want to see a SuperVette destroy enduro races worldwide.