Corvette History

The 2020 Mid-Engine Corvette

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What We (think we) Know About the 2020 Mid-Engine Corvette So Far….

From There To Here

The prospect of Chevrolet building a mid-engine Corvette has been around almost as long as the Corvette itself.  For decades, fans of the brand have clamored for a mid-engine variant of their beloved sports car.  With the arrival of each, successive generation of Corvette, the question would resurface “will Chevrolet introduce a mid-engine model?” It appears that, as we approach a new decade and another new-generation (the eighth-generation, or C8 model) of Corvette, that the answer will finally be YES!

1964 Corvette XP-819
The 1964 Corvete XP-819 was designed and developed by Zora Arkus-Duntov

The prospect of building a mid-engine Corvette began with a single prototype, the 1964 XP-819, which was developed by Corvette engineer and visionary Zora Arkus-Duntov.  The car was created to demonstrate what the potential of a mid-engine variant of the Corvette could look like. It was designed to prove that Chevrolet could compete with the European

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