Featured Red Corvette beside Ferrari
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Wow... the similarities are amazing! Here's hoping one of the car magazines does a 360 degree photo shoot soon of the two "twins".
The corvette driver in this picture should be smiling about all the extra money he still has in his pocket!
The corvette driver in this picture should be smiling about all the extra money he still has in his pocket!
So these C8'S are on the road already?
Personally, I think the C8 looks like a lot of the euro exotics... as it was obviously meant to. The closest match IMO is the 2020 McLaren GT....Again, IMO, I think a good percentage of the C8 buyers would have had their euro fix a long time ago if they could have justified $ 200,000 to $ 500,000 on a sports car.
They look like sisters...
Seesters from a different Meester.
It would have been even more interesting to see the similarities if the targa top was off the vette. Nice pic!
Even better would have been the C8 vert
A mid-engine car looks like a mid-engine car. There's no getting away from it. With the required size of the passenger cabin and engine bay, there's really only one shape that works.
At the end of the day, you can say a similar thing about an FR car. There's just a little bit more a designer can play with, with regards to the height of the nose and tail.
At the end of the day, you can say a similar thing about an FR car. There's just a little bit more a designer can play with, with regards to the height of the nose and tail.
I pulled profile images of 10 randomly selected Mid-engine, rear-drive vehicles that have been produced in relatively modern days. In chronological order:
1989 Ginetta G32
Country of origin: England
1997 Nissan R390 GT1
Country of origin: Japan
2001 Mosler MT900
USA
2004 Chrysler ME Four-Twelve Concept
USA
2004 Koeniggggsenisseggsegnignigsegigiseg CCR
Sweden
2005 Gumpert Apollo
Germany
2011 Hennessey Venom GT
USA
2013 Alfa Romeo 4C
Italy
2013 Galpin GTR1 (Based on the Ford GT)
USA
2015 Ultima-Evolution
England
I'll also include the Ferrari and Corvette from the photo for more comparison:
2015 Ferrari 488
Italy
2020 Chevrolet Corvette
USA
So yeah. As you can see, they're all pretty much the same with slight variations to each one, regardless of what part of the world they came from. (Notice 5 of the above 12 were American). Different curves, length, height, width (which you can't see), overhang... but they all follow the same overall profile.
The 2020 Corvette looks like European supercars because since the 1963 Ferrari Dino and 1966 Lamborghini Muira, that's what they've done. The USA had muscle cars because we had straight roads, which pretty much don't exist in Europe. A mid-engine car handles better but has some serious oversteer if pushed hard. Americans never took to mid-engine cars because they are more difficult to drive. The Corvette has always been the Blue Collar supercar but has always been a little bit slower and less prestigious as its counterparts. Now it can finally compete at the same level or above while still being that Blue Collar supercar.
1989 Ginetta G32
Country of origin: England
1997 Nissan R390 GT1
Country of origin: Japan
2001 Mosler MT900
USA
2004 Chrysler ME Four-Twelve Concept
USA
2004 Koeniggggsenisseggsegnignigsegigiseg CCR
Sweden
2005 Gumpert Apollo
Germany
2011 Hennessey Venom GT
USA
2013 Alfa Romeo 4C
Italy
2013 Galpin GTR1 (Based on the Ford GT)
USA
2015 Ultima-Evolution
England
I'll also include the Ferrari and Corvette from the photo for more comparison:
2015 Ferrari 488
Italy
2020 Chevrolet Corvette
USA
So yeah. As you can see, they're all pretty much the same with slight variations to each one, regardless of what part of the world they came from. (Notice 5 of the above 12 were American). Different curves, length, height, width (which you can't see), overhang... but they all follow the same overall profile.
The 2020 Corvette looks like European supercars because since the 1963 Ferrari Dino and 1966 Lamborghini Muira, that's what they've done. The USA had muscle cars because we had straight roads, which pretty much don't exist in Europe. A mid-engine car handles better but has some serious oversteer if pushed hard. Americans never took to mid-engine cars because they are more difficult to drive. The Corvette has always been the Blue Collar supercar but has always been a little bit slower and less prestigious as its counterparts. Now it can finally compete at the same level or above while still being that Blue Collar supercar.
