Corvette History 101: April 2, 1970 Mid-Engine XP-882 Debut
When the doors opened, there it was; the stunning, aggressive-looking, broad-shouldered, experimental, transverse, and mid-engine Corvette! It was fresh looking, yet it screamed “CORVETTE!”
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Vette Videos: 1973 4-Rotor, Mid-Engine AeroVette
With all the chitter-chatter in the C7 Corvette rumor mill about a possible mid-engine Corvette, we thought it would be fun to take a trip back to 1973 for a look at what many thought would be the replacement for the C3 Mako Shark-styled Corvette. Corvette chief of engineering, Zora Arkus-Duntov had been pitching the mid-engine layout since the 1960 CERV II car. Not only was the AeroVette a mid-engine layout, it was to be powered by a 420-horsepower, 4-rotor Wankel rotor-motor engine. GM had licensing rights to develop the radical rotary engine that seemed to have a lot of potential.
