Next Corvette to Target Euro-Supercar Fans With Small, High-Revving Turbo V8

**Rob** · 05-25-11, 07:51 PM

Next Corvette to Target Euro-Supercar Fans With Small, High-Revving Turbo V8

“We have to target a very different sort of buyer.”

by Paul A. Eisenstein on May.25, 2011
DetroitBureau.com

TheDetroitBureau.com has learned that GM has approved the use of a very European-style V8 that will be only slightly larger than 3 liters in displacement.

Full Story: http://www.thedetroitbureau.com/2011...ving-turbo-v8/

**LLC5** · 05-26-11, 11:54 AM

Looks like corvette prices just went up .

**6 Shooter** · 05-26-11, 01:22 PM

**Tuna** · 05-26-11, 02:20 PM

This makes 3 different engines that might be in the C7:
5.5L Direct Injection based on the current LSx series
V6 Twin Turbo (OHC or OHV ?)
V8 turbo, OHC, and around 3+ liters

Who you gonna believe?

**warren s** · 05-26-11, 05:52 PM

Anxious to attract the sort of high-performance buyers increasingly drawn to European sports cars from the likes of Porsche, Ferrari and Lamborghini.

Really?

**ßill** · 05-26-11, 08:10 PM

If memory serves me, Corvette did that 20+ years ago. It was the LT5 in the ZR-1. The bean counters shut it down.

**Tuna** · 05-27-11, 11:33 AM

Originally Posted by ßill

If memory serves me, Corvette did that 20+ years ago. It was the LT5 in the ZR-1. The bean counters shut it down.

If all Vettes are "LT5-Like" then the bean counters can't shut it down.

Maybe it's time to mid-engine the Vette since the Porch and Ferrari have theirs in the back.