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Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes
Dude, it's not even close.
Don't confuse weight distribution with engine placement. While one affects the other, it's not as simple as you make it out to be. You can have weight at the extremes, forward or aft, and balance it out with more weight at the other extreme, achieving "perfect" or "optimal" weight distribution as far as % for and aft, but that doesn't mean good handling, because your polar moments are so extreme when the car starts rotating, it won't stop. Your claim that the car is "more mid-engined" is ridiculous, no, it's a rear-engine, it always has been, it's clearly shown in the picture. If they are doing what they can to make the weight distribution decent so there's enough weight on the front tires, great, but it doesn't make it "more mid-engined". The entire premise of that is contrary to the layout of the car.
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And yet the 911 seems to get around a track pretty well. I suspect the C8 is going to be a fantastic car and will likely get better as time passes and improvements are made.