"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12)
07/19/2019 at 16:11 • Filed to: None
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"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12)
07/19/2019 at 16:11 • Filed to: None | 1
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People didn’t ask for it. The vette went for decades as a front engine, that’s its place. Sports car maybe, gran tourer probably, supercar sometimes. But always with the power, the power that commands respect but doesn’t get it (*cough* mustang). The powe r that leads to videos like this:
The sort of power that makes a sub 60,000 Yankee bucks a very dangerous prospect indeed.
Maybe front engined worked well for this car. The packaging, the style, the perceptions. The old men lacing them with gaudy garbage and presenting them as Three Thousand Miles Never Driven In The Rain.
Mid Engine isn’t a win win. You gain agility at the cost of stability, predictability. By all accounts the c7 was a fantastic car, and if Aston and Ferrari and maserati and jaag and friends can make so many great front engined cars... Should Chevrolet seek some misplaced fortune by moving the engine to the back?
Maybe they’ll be fine. Maybe all the “” traditional”” corvette customers out there never really drive them hard so won’t be thrown off by wacky mid enginedness. But it feels off.
My only car is an mr2. I love, love mid engined cars, and I love the idea that they can be produced for the commoners. I’ve been quietly optimistic about the idea of a mid engined vette for some time.
But even so. Is it the right choice?
gettingoldercarguy
> Nauraushaun
07/19/2019 at 16:29 |
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Ptm fixes most of that stuff
His Stigness
> gettingoldercarguy
07/19/2019 at 16:31 |
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You underestimate what Stupid can do...
PatBateman
> Nauraushaun
07/19/2019 at 16:32 |
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I get it. Chevy is making the Vette just as unstable as all those crap track cars from Ferrari and other mid-engine chassis manufacturers.
UHG.
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gettingoldercarguy
> His Stigness
07/19/2019 at 16:40 |
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I get that most people doing stupid stuff turn that off, but I’m talking about the vast majority of owners who leave it on and the inherent twitchiness of a low moi car. Ptm fixes that.
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His Stigness
> gettingoldercarguy
07/19/2019 at 18:48 |
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But I think even with PTM if you give the car a bootful and stupid that scenario could still happen. Is it likely? No. But it could still happen.
BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> Nauraushaun
07/19/2019 at 22:15 |
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I hate to mix American automotive heritage, but I think it was Henry Ford who said, when asked why he built new mass-produced automobiles : “If I asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘a faster horse.’ ”
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BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast.
> Nauraushaun
07/19/2019 at 22:23 |
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It may be less inherently stable, but this new corvette does seem like it has a somewhat generous wheelbase and track width.
the limits on modern cars are quite high anyway, and there are plenty of very stable family cars on the market, if that is a priority.
I just hope that a successful $
60K mid-engined car with high-400s hp will get the inherently insular, risk-adverse auto industry to build some more mid-engined cars... maybe something at $
35-40K with high 300s hp and torque, if this shows that there are some enthusiast buyers who haven’t had much to get excited about recently.