Car and Driver: Next Generation C8 Corvette to be Mid Engine Only

Car and Driver: Next Generation C8 Corvette to be Mid Engine Only

Photo Illustration: Nick Kaloterakis/Car and Driver It feels like silly season is upon us as these C8 Corvette rumors continue to abound. The latest comes from Car and Driver’s Technical Editor Don Sherman, who we like to remind people is a long-time Corvette owner. When Sherman has something to say about a next generation C8

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Did Cadillac’s President Hint that the Zora ZR1 Mid-Engine Corvette is Real?

Did Cadillac's President Just Hint that the Zora ZR1 Mid-Engine Corvette is Real?

Photo Credit: Motor Trend We’ve been following the rumors and innuendo surrounding a potential mid-engine Corvette that may be under development by GM that would hit the market around 2018. And while we are confident that this car known as the Zora or the ZR1 is going to happen, it’s always nice when a company insider lends credence to those rumors, whether intentional or not. In a recent interview with Motor Trend, Cadillac’s President Johan

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GM Promising New Approach on Engineering its Vehicles for Right Hand Drive

GM Promising New Approach on Engineering its Vehicles for Right Hand Drive

Photo Credit: corvetteclinic.com.au The decision won’t affect American customers, but General Motors says it has changed its corporate philosophy to include the engineering of right-hand drive capabilities in certain vehicles from the beginning. While that switch won’t help customers in places like Australia that might be candidates for the current Camaro and Silverado if they were RHD, it does offer hope in the future that such vehicles could show up some day in The Land

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C8 Corvette Looking More Likely to Serve as Holden’s New V8 Sports Car in Australia

New Corvette Looking More Likely to Serve as Holden's New V8 Sports Car in Australia

Photo Credit: CorvetteClinic.com.au It’s looking more and more as if the Chevrolet Corvette might be the replacement for the Holden Commodore performance car currently available in Australia. Production of the Commodore will end in The Land Down Under in 2017, but General Motors International President Stefan Jacoby has made it clear for months that the Aussies won’t be without a GM performance car after that. In a recent exclusive interview with Australian-based website CarAdvice, Jacoby

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GM’s Trouble With Aussie Trademark Registration Reveals Details about Mid-Engine Corvette Zora

GM's Trouble With Aussie Trademark Registration Reveals Details about Mid-Engine Corvette Zora

Image Credit: MonaroSS/GMInsideNews Last week, the Australian car magazine Wheels broke an exclusive report about the trouble that General Motors is having in securing a trademark in the land of Oz for its crossed-flags Corvette logo. Specifically, the Corvette logo trademark has been denied multiple times due to protections that Australian intellectual property laws grants to the Red Cross. However, after reading the article and reaching out to the author who wrote the story, we

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[PIC] The Mid-Engined C8 Corvette Zora ZR1 Rendered

[PIC] The C8 Mid-engine Corvette Zora ZR1 Rendered

Image Credit: BUZZART Would the artist that rendered this C8 Corvette Zora ZR1 please set forward! Because your render of the rumored mid-engine Corvette is one of the best we’ve seen yet. We found this posted on Facebook and seaching BUZZART has led us nowhere, at least when it comes to automotive designs, so if you’re out there, let us know! The rendered C8 Corvette is part of a trio of images, first showing the

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[PICS] Bold Ride Renders the 2017 Zora ZR1 Mid Engine Corvette

Photo Credit: BoldRide.com Last month during an interview with Autoline, Corvette Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter flatly denied that Chevy was building a secret mid-engine sports car. But that hasn’t stopped the speculation that a new flagship mid-engine sports car wearing the cross-flag badges may be on the horizon. To help fill in some details about […]

[VIDEO] Was the Mid-Engine Corvette Zora ZR1 Intentionally Leaked by GM?

Could Ed Welburn be giving viewers of Velocity’s Americarna show a sneak peak at the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro and the rumored mid-engine Corvette Zora ZR1? Or is it just wishful thinking? Americarna host Ray Evernham recently toured GM’s design facilities with Welburn, the Global Vice President of Design, and definitely got an eye full of […]

[PIC] Automobile Magazine Renders the C8 Zora ZR1 Mid-Engine Corvette

Photo Credit: Automobile Magazine After the debut of the seventh generation Corvette Stingray back in 2013 along with the Corvette Z06 that bowed a year later, the automotive press has been pretty excited about the prospect that the next generation Corvette may be produced featuring a mid engine layout. Following a sighting of a possible […]

Is the Corvette Headed to Australia for Holden?

Photo Credit: corvetteclinic.com.au Our friends down under may soon be able to buy a fancy new American car at their Holden dealer in Australia. That was the word last week from Stefan Jacoby, head of General Motors’ international division. Jacoby didn’t give many details about the new car, but he did tell Australian media this […]