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It has been a convertible and a coupé. It has been both monstrously powerful and woefully underpowered. It has been both a pace car and a race car. The seven generations of this emblematic sports car have all had one key aspect in common: a front-mounted engine spinning the rear wheels. Chevrolet will toss this heritage out the window when it releases the mid-engined, eighth-generation Corvette during the 2020 model year.

While some are understandably stunned by the change, we’re surprised it didn’t happen sooner. Chevrolet began testing mid-engined Corvette and Corvette-derived prototypes in the early 1960s and it has come shockingly close to approving the switch on several occasions. Join us for a look at the prototypes the eighth-generation Corvette shares its lineage with:

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