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Picture for XFIRE

Rant for the day. My last words on this thread.

"Picture for X Fire" thread has been on this forum since September 2018, it has had over 5k Views and 281K replies. There has been lots of interesting and fun bantering back and forth over the years.

Newbies? "If you want new members to leave because it gets filled with other stuff and can't participate because they forum title is unclear then fine." Good grief if new people come on the forum and are incapable of navigating a very well laid out content page then there really is a problem. Frankly, while it is nice to see the Forum grow with new members with new interests the concern for me is different. It is those members who have been here for 10 or 15 years that are drifting away. It makes me wonder when someone on the C8 forum questioned exactly what a C7 was. These are not, in my opinion, Corvette people, European wanna be's perhaps but they lack even a fundamental interest in the history of the car they drive.

Over those five years no one has ever complained about the thread title until now. Not going to change the title but should perhaps put a "Comprehension Alert" notice beside the thread.
 
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Well said. We welcome new members with open arms and have welcomed the radical changes in the new Corvettes and the changes in the Corvette mentality. But in the same breath, we are also loath to sacrifice the threads and the members that have supported us and helped us with both generous ongoing donations and many thousands of posts over the years. Many of the newcomers may not realize that this forum, and the obvious fact that there are no annoying pop-ups and multiple advertisements cluttering your screen, is totally supported by it's valued members. Nik and the moderators put countless hours into sifting through and blocking 99.9% of the spam and unsavory people that would like nothing better than to sell you passports, diplomas and penis enhancement drugs. Constant improvements and new features, often by member requests are only implemented by our tireless administrator who keeps this forum running. No one receives any compensation for this other than our pride in this great Canadian forum, the membership that we have made friends with, whether in person or simply on line chatting, and the multiple kudos we receive from the members at large. For those that don't appreciate off Corvette topic threads, don't read them, or if it bothers you that much, leave. And by the way, don't try travelling with one of the fake passports. The diplomas in medicine from Nairobi don't make you a doctor, and the penis enhancers....errr... ok... they work great....
 
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penis enhancers....errr... ok... they work great.
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I take it you have heard from a few of the woman on here Rruuff! LOL
 
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Jaguar XJ13 (1966)​

If things had gone differently, the XJ13 – and not the Lamborghini Miura – might have been the world’s first mid-engined supercar. Plans were being made for a new racing car (which would probably have been produced for road use too) in the early 1960s, but the single example wasn’t built until 1966, and by that time it probably wouldn’t have been competitive against the Ford GT40, which won the Le Mans 24 Hour race every year from then until 1969.

The project was shelved, and the 5.0-liter V12-powered XJ13 did nothing more exciting than a few high-speed runs before it crashed heavily during a filming session in 1971. Comprehensively rebuilt, it still exists today at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon as a reminder of what might have been.
 
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Chevrolet Aerovette (1969)​

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Chevrolet launched its first ever mid-engined Corvette in 2019, but with the Aerovette was a serious attempt to achieve the same back in the 1960s. It was designed by Zora Aarkus-Duntov, known as the ‘Father of the Corvette’, and moved the idea of the American supercar forward in a significant way. That included using a pair of rotary engines developing 420bhp that would have made the car very light and powerful.
Problems arose when Chevrolet’s general manager, John DeLorean, canned the project on cost grounds and then exhumed it in 1970 in response to the Ford-back De Tomaso Pantera for a motorshow appearance. None of this helped the Aerovette into production and customer research showed much resistance among existing Corvette drivers to a mid-engined model.
 
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You can see the "prowler" in this car.

Chrysler Atlantic (1995)​

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The retro-styled Atlantic was a homage to custom-bodied luxury cars of the 1930s in general and the Bugatti Type 57 Atlantic in particular – not exactly supercars in the modern sense, but surely the equivalent of their era.
The ‘30s influence can also been in the Atlantic’s 4.0-liter straight-eight engine, which sounds very exotic until you learn that it was composed of two Chrysler Neon motors joined together. This alone hinted that Chrysler wasn’t interested in developing a production version, since by 1995 the straight-eight had been out of fashion for about half a century.
 
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Shades of the C8 model

Cadillac Cien (2002)​

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Cien is the Spanish word for ‘hundred’, and was therefore an appropriate choice for a concept celebrating Cadillac’s centenary. The Cien was a dramatic sports car powered by a specially designed 7.5-liter V12 engine which produced around 750bhp and was mounted just ahead of the rear axle.
Although the Cien was an American car, much of the development took place in the UK. The styling, influenced by the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fighter jet, was done at the GM Advanced Design Studio in Coventry, while engineering work was done by Prodrive, 30 miles to the south in Banbury.
 
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Nice colour.


Saleen S5S Raptor (2008)​

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Saleen has put many high-performance models into production since it was founded in 1983, but the S5S Raptor wasn’t one of them, even though there was once talk of it selling for around $185,000. To some of us, that’s quite a lot of money, but it was only about a third of what Saleen was asking for the twin-turbo version of the S7.
Compared with that car, the S5S Raptor was very much a junior model, but in absolute terms it was rather more than that. The mid-mounted engine was a supercharged 5.0-liter V8 which was quoted as having a power output in the region of 650bhp.
 
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Too bad they didn’t produce this one.
 
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Jay Lenos Garage has a good review on a replica of one of these, quite interesting.
 
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