This fascinating, informative, beautifully illustrated and well written book uses official GM archives material and input from numerous Corvette team members to present the complete, licensed story of the development of the 2020, eighth generation (C8) Corvette – the first mid-engine production Corvette. Since 1953, through GM’s good and bad times, the Corvette has not only endured but thrived. Ironically, however, its sales success worked against risking its replacement with a mid-engine production car — until the C8. As early as the 1950s, a mid-engine Corvette was envisioned and strongly championed by Chief Engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov. At Le Mans he had raced Porsches in 1954-55, winning his class both years. “He firmly believed that a great race car, particularly a mid-engine race car, would make the best sports car.”