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on April 30 teasing the 2020
. Tucked in the middle eight seconds of that video, we got a few blink-and-miss-it frames of historical Corvettes showing off mid-engined silhouettes. As if wanting us to have a fair chance to study the lesson,
put out a new 53-second video that breaks down the earlier clip. It takes longer looks at, and adds subtitles to, the historical Corvettes that will complete their mid-engine relay with the C8 generation debuting July 19.
After some logo morphing we get Zora-Arkus Duntov, father of the Corvette and Dreamer-in-Chief of a mid-engined Corvette, asking if we’ve fastened our seatbelts. Then come
, starting with the
looking straight out of Hanna-Barbera’s “
Wacky Races” — c
heck out those high-rise Plexiglass carb trumpets. Then come the 1976 XP 882 Aerovette; Duntov driving the first mid-engine
Chevrolet Experimental Research Vehicle (CERV)
from 1960; the 1963 CERV II; the 1986 Indy Corvette — which
should put a battery pack in and sell right now — and the 1990 CERV III.
For further reading,
Super Chevy
published an multi-part series on Corvette prototypes that’s fascinating reading. It covers gems Chevrolet left out of the video, like
that would have out-Pantera’ed the
Pantera. There was the first 1973 variation on the XP 882 that
put a four-rotor Wankel-engine in the middle
. Even Duntov didn’t want it, partly because the same engine was slated to go in the Chevy Vega. And there was another 1973 variant,
with a two-rotor Wankel engine in the middle. Yet another 1973 concept,
, wore aluminum body panels and could have been designed in Italy. Dig
that limboed under the
GT40 by being just 35.5 inches high. The
had to be built in secret and never saw the light before being destroyed. And on a side note, if you ever wanted to know what a Corvette station wagon would look like, well,
.
Back to the present, check this out for meta: Chevrolet slipped a bunch of Easter eggs into a video created to explain Easter eggs slipped into a previous video. Among the footage of those coupes with mid-ship engines, there are cuts of Corvette racers like the C7.R’s scoring a 1-2 finish at the 2016 Rolex 24 at Daytona, Duntov behind wheel of the magnesium-bodied 1957
Race Car, and Bill Mitchell’s 1959 Stingray Racer.
We’re guessing they have something to do with the footage of a camouflaged C8 Corvette that opens the teaser vid. For some reason, the footage runs in reverse. But if you pause the video and use the </> keys (comma and period) to move frame-by-frame, you’ll get eyes on a C8 that isn’t like anything we’ve seen so far. A wide, muscular bulge defines the hood, the front intakes are different to the prototypes caught in
, the lights look different, and the mirrors are mounted on the doors like on the C7. After the opening, a shot shows the prototype we
have
seen taking a curb. That second car has no bulging hood, and mirrors on trim lintels mounted at the leading edges of the side windows. All of that happens before the time stamp’s moved off of 0:00.
Keep going frame-by-frame, there’s the first Corvette again in profile. Notice the elongated flat section above and behind the rear wheels. At 0:01, a wide shot shows huge side scoops and enormous front intakes that mark this as a clearly different animal. Skip ahead to 0:32, and there’s a Corvette sketch matching the lines of the mid-engined foreigner. It’s like Chevrolet’s been showing us Speed Racer, and now Racer X shows up to make the party even better.
We’ll be on the lookout for another teaser vid to explain all of this. And GM, we’re serious about that Indy Corvette. Call Rimac, get a battery, make that happen.
from Autoblog http://bit.ly/2HYrJya