BBC Top Gear Magazine

WEIRD SECRET TEST MULES

01 HSV ‘Corvette’

When GM decided to make the new Corvette mid-engined, it couldn’t do the testing in the body of a Corvette. So it hit on the idea of clothing a mid-engined chassis in the bones of an HSV ute. And accidentally made something better looking than the C8

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