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Today there was a rumor that surfaced online that the next generation Corvette may have a mid-engine layout, or will have a mid-engined variant.

First let’s make it clear that Chevrolet does produce a mid-engined Corvette. However, here “a mid-engined Corvette” means Chevy actually only made one unit of such a Corvette, which is the Corvette Daytona Prototype, which Chevrolet created specifically for the 2012 Daytona race. Below are images of this Corvette.

Corvette Daytona Prototype is not a production car, and Chevrolet has no plan to make it a production car, plain and simple.

The fact is, beginning 3 generations earlier – starting from C4, before every new generat...

One of our industry sources mentioned to us today, the upcoming Corvette ZR1 will be equipped with a twin VGT turbocharger V8 engine, which will produce 785 horsepower.

(Below photo is the 2015 Corvette Z06, not the ZR1)