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The C8 Corvette ZR1 is the most affordable mid-engine sports car on the market

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The 2025 Chevy Corvette ZR1 is the first mid-engine sports car on the market.

It's the first of the C8 -generation Corvette lineage to move its engine aft of the front wheels.

The idea was penned in 1959 by Zora Arkus-Duntov , a Belgian -Russian engineer who joined up with Chevrolet just after the first Corvette entered production.

It took until 2019 for the first C8 to debut.

The next cheapest mid-engined new car on the market is the Porsche Cayman/Boxster .

Even the cheapest Corvettes can't be had with a manual transmission.

Chevy now also offers a hybrid V8 Corvette paired with all-wheel drive, in addition to the supercar-beating Z06 and the even higher-performance ZR1.

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