Mid-engine Corvette won't happen, GM says
It's official: There's no mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette on the horizon. That's the word from General Motors' top global engineer.
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| As for a Corvette with a hybrid powertrain, that remains a possibility. Karl-Friedrich Stracke, GM vice president of global vehicle engineering, on Tuesday discussed a wide range of topics--including the next-generation Corvette. Over the past two years or so, countless Web and print stories have been written about the upcoming redesigned Corvette, and nearly all have speculated that GM was developing a mid-engine model. Speculation regarding the timing for the mid-engine car's debut was anywhere from the 2014 model year to several years later. Stracke said he was familiar with those stories: “I don't know who made this public. I think it is wrong.” On Wednesday, when asked for clarification about Stracke's comments, Dan Flores, a GM communications spokesman, said Stracke “is quashing those rumors.” |
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