The Corvette team had been working on building prototypes of a mid-engine layout back in the 1960s, but it wasn’t until the eighth-generation C8 Corvette arrived in 2020 that the long-promised configuration for the car arrived. It turns out that the mid-engine layout got serious in the 2000s when the sixth-generation vehicle was in the works. But it was proving to be quite complicated, as GM’s financial troubles ultimately doused the plan, and the team was forced to pivot to a less-costly revamp of the C5 platform. Ultimately, a great car was still produced in the C6 Corvette, as seen in the l…