News: Next Corvette to Target Euro-Supercar Fans With Small, High-Revving Turbo V8

[Rob]

Next Corvette to Target Euro-Supercar Fans With Small, High-Revving Turbo V8

“We have to target a very different sort of buyer.”

by Paul A. Eisenstein on May.25, 2011
DetroitBureau.com

TheDetroitBureau.com has learned that GM has approved the use of a very European-style V8 that will be only slightly larger than 3 liters in displacement.

Full Story: http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/201...percar-fans-with-small-high-revving-turbo-v8/

 

[LLC5]

Looks like corvette prices just went up .

 

[6 Shooter]

They're always going up...

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[Tuna]

This makes 3 different engines that might be in the C7:
5.5L Direct Injection based on the current LSx series
V6 Twin Turbo (OHC or OHV ?)
V8 turbo, OHC, and around 3+ liters

Who you gonna believe? :confused

 

[warren s]

Anxious to attract the sort of high-performance buyers increasingly drawn to European sports cars from the likes of Porsche, Ferrari and Lamborghini.


Really?

 

[ßill]

If memory serves me, Corvette did that 20+ years ago. It was the LT5 in the ZR-1. The bean counters shut it down.

 

[Tuna]

If memory serves me, Corvette did that 20+ years ago. It was the LT5 in the ZR-1. The bean counters shut it down.

If all Vettes are "LT5-Like" then the bean counters can't shut it down.

Maybe it's time to mid-engine the Vette since the Porch and Ferrari have theirs in the back.

 

[Hib Halverson]

Now that C7 has arrived, it's fun to go back and look at all the strange speculation that went on two years ago.