Mid-Engine C7 Corvette Coming In 2010

At the beginning of the year we were informed, by auto journalist Peter De Lorenzo, that Chevy would be making a mid-engine C7 Corvette that would be both expensive and and have low volume. Up until now we weren’t sure that they would acctually go through with it.

Keeping the Corvette relatively inexpensive was the major obstacle for moving to a mid-engine layout. Supposedly Corvette engineers have found a way to produce a mid-engine Vette while keeping the cost reasonable, about around the price for a fully loaded Corvette Convertible today. Who knows how they’ve done it, but since Corvette faithful within General Motors would not allow the car’s price to swell, the achievement was a must for the mid-engine project to move forward.

Peter De Lorenzo had this to say: “There was serious talk of an extremely limited production mid-engined “super” Corvette (fewer than 500 units), which would be built as an adjunct program to the traditional car, but that had not been decided. That’s the way we reported it many weeks ago, and that was the assumption by many in the business as to how it was going to go down, until now.”

This brand new revolutionized vehicle has already been sent to production and is planned to be released in 2010(it seems that’s when all the good supercars are coming). We can expect to see it at the Le Mans that same year showing off.