Why would Car and Driver predict mid engine C8 Corvette coming in 2018?

As mentioned in this blog on many occasions, the rumors of mid engine Corvette have been circulating ever since Arkus Zora-Duntov joined the Corvette team-and they never became reality.

Typically, these rumors get started within +General Motors , creating a necessary diversion and deflecting public scrutiny from the engineering mediocrity of Corvettes produced at that time.

However, this time around, these rumors do not originate from within GM and instead, from the automotive press and magazines such as Road and Track and Motor Trend.

Realistically, there never will be a mid engine Corvette and there are many reasons to discard everything else:  Corvette engineering team, just like the rest of +General Motors , is full of stupid, unmotivated, unimaginative and lazy people, with +Tadge Juechter setting the new all time low standard that will be hard to beat for years to come.

If this was not a sufficient reason already, there are the typical Corvette buyers, old, physically unfit and more concerned with carrying golf bags than competing on a road course.  Yes, they like to kid themselves, using bullshit weight distribution and lateral acceleration figures thrown at them by Juechter to justify their purchases but realistically, none of this matters to them at all.  Thus, individuals like Juechter can easily get away with a bullshit like extending the wheelbase of the car to supposedly maintain the ideal weight distribution.

So why would the automotive press do this?  Why would the automotive press talk about the mid engine Corvette constantly and not approaching the end of production run but at its beginning instead?  Is this a case of car magazines being on to something or something else?

The explanation may be too brutal for the most devoted GM nut hugging crowd and thus, ignored altogether.  However, for everyone else, this is nothing short of a mercy killing, with the automotive press trying their hardest to put the antiquated piece of plastic out of its much too prolonged misery.

As the old saying goes, even the most blatant lie, if repeated enough times, can became the truth and reality.  Apparently, magazines like Car and Driver must be prescribing to this approach and spend more time discussing the mid engine unicorn than the antiquated four wheel mothball storage unit called Corvette C7.

Now, articles like the one below are nothing short of automotive shaming, politely indicating the real development of the current Corvette ended in 1997 and nobody really cares how much can GM stretch the Corvette farce in the future,  without committing itself to at least a trace of engineering R&D.

Can GM finally get the fucking hint and put the pushrod horseless carriage to much overdue rest?
Apparently Chrysler is getting the hint and killing off the latest Viper disaster.  Perhaps it is finally time for GM to let Juechter go and copy Ford, limiting high performance to hopped up Camaro.

As to creating a GM equivalent to Ford GT?  Ain't gonna happen since as stated, GM employs some of the most incompetent engineers in automotive history and has no intention to spend a dime without a guaranteed hefty profit.

http://blog.caranddriver.com/c8-in-2018-the-latest-on-the-mid-engine-chevrolet-corvette/