Next Corvette Could Become a Hybrid

Way for the stupid CAFE standards to ruin the Vette. GM should just play the system and retain Pontiac & Saturn and build a tiny little "cobalt" that gets 80mpg but has only like 50HP. Then Change the logo and the headlights and rebadge it as a Pontiac & Saturn. Nobody would buy it, but that's two more cars in the fleet to boost the MPG average.
And the way they calculate MPG is completely bogus anyway. Especially for hybrid and electric cars. Calculate some REAL units of energy consumption like Joule's per mile and we'll see which cars are truly efficient, and which ones are just a bunch of BS.

Of course by 2016 nano tech might actually make something outside of the lab and we could be using super capacitors or something. Hell If you could squeeze 100+kwh of power into a decent weight it might be worth it to go all electric...

Or something along the Diablo VT with a mild electric setup on the front wheels...

Or next year they might just cancel the Vet and bring it back a week later, only to cancel it again for real this time. And then bring it back once more....*sigh* (Or cancel it and keep showing us the prototype for the next 3 years while they work on a new one...yeah that's right I'm eyeing you Camaro.)

GAY! might as well call it quits if you have to make a hybrid Vette! what a joke! im all for helping the environment, but wow!

I woke up from a bad dream in 1980 and realized I'd imagined a Vet with a front wheel drive 4 cylinder stick shift, as it got high gas mileage and looked snazzy.

Oh, no, let's not get rid of the Corvette, Mr. Stephens, let's make it have a fate worse than death.

Hybrid tech can be used for performance gains rather than pure efficiency. Witness KERS tech being used in F1 racing right now.

My gut says it shouldn't be applied to the Corvette, as that's overly fussy when Corvettes supposedly cure things with shear grunt.

However, the latest Corvettes have become tech showcases. Maybe future hybrid tech could fit in after all.

The CAFE standards are BS and shouldn't apply to exotic sports cars. I can understand the standards being inplace for your avg car, but how many people own a 45+ thousand dollar supercharged sports car? Not many. I'm not going to blame GM, I mean, it's not like they want to do this, but instead are forced to do this by CAFE standards being put inplace, just like all sports cars in its class or higher will be forced to do. So if you want to blame it on someone blame it on CAFE.

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standards, let's kill them all.

That would not be called a corvette then...that would be a disgrace to its name.

Agreed, Hunter. If they stick a hybrid in a Corvette, hang it up. Call it a day.

They could bring back the Chevette name for it : )

This article is BS. The way CAFE numbers are calculated, the Vette isn't sold in high enough quantities for it to really matter.

At 16/26 for the manual and 15/25 for the auto for the LS3, 15/24 for the Z06, and 14/20 for the ZR1, those numbers shouldn't hurt CAFE at all. They sell about 30,000 Corvettes a year in the US, only 10,000 Z06s for the world a year, and 2,000 ZR1s for the world a year. The manual LS3 gets better mileage then a Transverse for crying out loud.

The C7 is suppose to be smaller and lighter along with the engines having DI, DOD, and VVT. All those factors help fuel economy on an already fairly efficient, low numbers vehicle. A hybrid would throw the weight of the car out of control and adversely effect handling. For example, a Sierra Hybrid comes in at 5,600 lbs. The XFE is 5,100 lbs. That is about 10% more which would take the Vette from a current 3,300 lbs for the GS to 3,600 lbs. I don't think people want a 3,600 lb Vette for about 26/27 mpg.....

Talk about ugly!!!!! Chevy needs to stop trying to look like the good ones now trying to look out for the enviroment with that ugly shit!!! i rather drive a prius...