The C8's exterior design chief, Kirk Bennion, even sketched such a car before GM hired him in 1984. 0:00 / 0:00 "As a young man in college, I created a mid-engine Corvette" at the Cleveland ...

Design Compromises . In cars that ... The Ferrari Mondial Cabriolet has, therefore, never been displaced as the only mid-engine four-seater car ever made. Besides the odd application such as the ...

We did a clinic where we took the same generic design language, not a Corvette, and put it over front- and mid-engine cars. We found our current customers are happy either way.

From the February/March 2023 issue of Car and Driver.. When introduced in 1984, the Pontiac Fiero wasn't marketed as a sports car. Though it was General Motors' first mid-engine production vehicle ...

Chevrolet unveiled the first mid-engine Corvette at an event in California on Thursday night. The change intended to take the all-American sports car to the next level of performance so it can ...

Why did mid-engine design evolve in the first place? In a car designed around an internal-combustion engine, the powerplant is most often located ahead of the driver, which doesn’t provide the ...

It took Chevrolet more than six decades to switch the Corvette’s front-engine layout to a mid-engine design. Unfortunately for sports car lovers, Dodge never had the opportunity of doing that ...

The design team for the mid-engine Corvette C8 will speak at the upcoming Historic General Motors Design Seminar in Michigan, sharing insights on what it was like to work on the innovative sports car.

Considering how sales have dropped off since its 2014 model-year introduction, typical of a sports car, there ought to be a few lingering on dealer lots by the time the mid-engine 2020 Chevrolet ...

A mid-engine car benefits from excellent balanced traction between front and rear wheels. However, the nature of a mid-engine layout requires either a very long chassis or a two-seat design ...

As Taylor points out, the stillborn mid-engine Viper has a surprising relationship to another mid-engine American performance car, the Ford GT. You should absolutely read his piece explaining that ...