The Corvette goes Mid Engine in the 80’s.

With the C8, becoming a mid engine car for its next generation. This have brought up the question of what if the Vette had went mid engine in the 80’s? How would a low cost (under 100,000 for most models) mid engine super car effect the world.
 
With the C8, becoming a mid engine car for its next generation. This have brought up the question of what if the Vette had went mid engine in the 80’s? How would a low cost (under 100,000 for most models) mid engine super car effect the world.
Aerovette, Corvette Indy. The design is there in the 80's but how do they carry it into the 90's and 2000's. I'm doing a GM timeline and I can say a mid engine vette isn't happening anytime soon in it.
 
Aerovette, Corvette Indy. The design is there in the 80's but how do they carry it into the 90's and 2000's. I'm doing a GM timeline and I can say a mid engine vette isn't happening anytime soon in it.
I was thinking something like an less costly CERV 3, maybe cut done on the carbon fiber and turbo chargers on the base models, but they still keep them on the ZR1.
 
Another way at this is GM souping up the Pontiac Fiero and having some of the same components as the Corvette, since that provides a mid-engine platform to work off of without changing the Corvette. If GM tried to change the Corvette to mid-engine, I'd imagine there would be a similar outcry to what happened to Ford when they *almost* took the Mustang to a FWD platform, and eventually took those plans and spun them into the Probe after enthusiasts flooded them with letters.
 
It's still a slow piece of junk that looks like an out of date space ship.

BTW Fiero was also a piece of junk but it did look cool...had neat flames in the rear end.
 
With the C8, becoming a mid engine car for its next generation. This have brought up the question of what if the Vette had went mid engine in the 80’s? How would a low cost (under 100,000 for most models) mid engine super car effect the world.
Depends if it was built by De Tomaso or not. His ghost is probably laughing his ass off.
 
The Fiero was my first thought.

I think a mid engine Corvette in the 80s would mean no Fiero, or maybe a Corvette that was fundementally different such as north-south engine layout an V8 power. GM wouldn't want the Corvette, which was just getting fast again after a decade of being a fat slug, to gain the image of a tarted up Pontiac.

Back in the late 80s I saw articles about mid engine corvettes and how they might have 2 streams: the front and mid engines. In that case releasing the Fiero as the Corvette mid engine might suffice.
 
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