Corvette SS

[Propwash]

What's your problem? I know it's a fucking test mule. I'm not disagreeing with you. I've seen test mules, and when you change a front engined car to a mid engined car, your proportions change. You couldn't physically fit an LS6/LS7 engine in the back of the C6.

Um mid engine does'nt mean rear mid engine, any engine behind the front axle is also considered mid engine. They could have redesigned the tunnel and moved the motor back a few inches and it would be a mid engined car. Besides, the car in the pic is a stock Z06 with the engine PROPOSED FOR USE IN THE MID ENGINE CAR. The engine is in its stock location, but it is the prototype engine. Clear?

[browntown]

So you thought the Z06 was fast? GM has confirmed a mid-engined, DOHC, supercharged Corvette SS. Heres a little article with some pictures. The car pictured is a c6 Z06 test mule with the new motor. http://www.digitalcorvettes.com/foru...ad.php?t=63503. Enjoy.

I too, don't see anywhere where GM has *confirmed* a mid-engined vette. I read about half the posts on that link.

[AdironRider]

What's your problem? I know it's a fucking test mule. I'm not disagreeing with you. I've seen test mules, and when you change a front engined car to a mid engined car, your proportions change. You couldn't physically fit an LS6/LS7 engine in the back of the C6. Maybe they're testing the engine in it's rightful place in a Corvette, but there's no way the next Vette will be mid-engined, because what's the point of testing an engine if it has to be redesigned to be placed in the rear of the car? The Corvette has its transmission in the rear--you'd have to completely redesign the transmission to run through the bottom or middle of the engine once it was placed amidships. There's too many parts that would be different from front to mid. What's the point of doing that?

Your still a retard. He never said that the car shown was mid engined, only that it was a current z06 with the eventual motor of the new Vette in it. Theyre spy photos man, and this had already gone over before in the thread. Reading comprehension is your friend.

[SA E30]

I think thats what they saying...

[325iCabrio]

Youre fucking stupid. How many times does it have to be said that the car pictured is a test mule? Not enough apparently.

What's your problem? I know it's a fucking test mule. I'm not disagreeing with you. I've seen test mules, and when you change a front engined car to a mid engined car, your proportions change. You couldn't physically fit an LS6/LS7 engine in the back of the C6. Maybe they're testing the engine in it's rightful place in a Corvette, but there's no way the next Vette will be mid-engined, because what's the point of testing an engine if it has to be redesigned to be placed in the rear of the car? The Corvette has its transmission in the rear--you'd have to completely redesign the transmission to run through the bottom or middle of the engine once it was placed amidships. There's too many parts that would be different from front to mid. What's the point of doing that?

That thing can't be mid-engined--the proportions are all wrong. If that were mid-engined the car wouldn't have that glass canopy in the back, or if it did, it'd have to be seriously stretched. Plus, there's no rear cooling duct at all--I find it hard to believe that all the air is being pushed in through that scoop on the hood.

They've been saying a mid-engined Vette is coming out since the '70s. I'll believe it when I see it.

Youre fucking stupid. How many times does it have to be said that the car pictured is a test mule? Not enough apparently.

[325iCabrio]

That thing can't be mid-engined--the proportions are all wrong. If that were mid-engined the car wouldn't have that glass canopy in the back, or if it did, it'd have to be seriously stretched. Plus, there's no rear cooling duct at all--I find it hard to believe that all the air is being pushed in through that scoop on the hood.

They've been saying a mid-engined Vette is coming out since the '70s. I'll believe it when I see it.

And BenDash, that picture's fucking awesome. :D

EDIT: Did you guys ever see the Fabrizzio Giugiaro Corvette Moray? That cars proportions are what you'd need for a mid-engined Vette:

[CleanAzzE30z]

oh shit....... Man I was out of my tree. OH YOU WERE THERE!!! FUCK!!!! Shows you what a good time I had. Fuck I was gone.

Mariano

[e30sd]

UH DUDE, i was there. so was todd. lol you came and hugged ara and me. ahaha.

[CleanAzzE30z]

missed supercar status? a z06 is fast and sporty; that's all good. but the ergonomics blow (i mean we're making ferrari look good here), and they are too common to be considered super.

agreed. And dude... you didnt show up last Saturday. WTF??


Mariano

Both key points to why the Vette will never reach supercar status. I just about creamed my pants when I saw the new performance numbers for the current z06, but after some time it really just doesnt seem all that awesome when a redneck down the road thinks hes an equal with you cause he drives a mid 80's shitbox vette. The janitor at my school drives a vette. That really killed the dream for me.

I agree 100%. I think GM is going for a different market with the new SS though.

[AdironRider]

Remember he didnt like school. He skipped out on graduation to go to a car meet for a car he doesnt own. Mustve had an effect on his studies as well.

[e30sd]

I'll believe it when I see it. I seriously doubt GM would take a stock Z06, drop a motor in it and call it a "SS" model. It has stock Z06 badges on it for Christ sake. Plus, if it was so secretive, they would have had it camouflaged. While I do believe they are making a super-fast version, I don't think that is it.

do they teach reading comprehension in oregon? it's an engine test mule. no new bodywork. jfc.

[parkerbink]

That is just plain scary.

btw

Did anyone hear that hell had frozen over?









































holmes actually posted a thread that is not totally a waste of time.

[AndrewBird]

I'll believe it when I see it. I seriously doubt GM would take a stock Z06, drop a motor in it and call it a "SS" model. It has stock Z06 badges on it for Christ sake. Plus, if it was so secretive, they would have had it camouflaged. While I do believe they are making a super-fast version, I don't think that is it.